Example sentences of "was [vb pp] at [det] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flat area to the south was drained at some time in the eighteenth century and a canal was built across it . |
| 2 | A great deal of work was done at that time in enlarging and landscaping the park , creating lakes and the kitchen gardens . |
| 3 | In mathematics he was clearly one year ahead , and was immediately awarded a Founder 's scholarship and two small exhibitions — and this at St John 's College which was noted at this time for its academic distinction . |
| 4 | The machinery of the ancient Forest courts was found at this time to be cumbrous and ineffective . |
| 5 | We should remember that very little was known at that time about the ways in which the ovaries influence distant organs . |
| 6 | This was an intelligence test that was taken at that time by all children who wanted state education . |
| 7 | Despite later Communist acceptance of this policy it was rejected at this time by William Rust for the Party . |
| 8 | Although other burials clustered around the enclosure , the internal area was respected , until the whole monument was dismantled at some time in the fourth century . |
| 9 | There is only one ‘ edition ’ of The Fairy Queen , which was issued first in 1692 — in May , when the show opened ( this is clear from Tonson 's advertisement in The London Gazette ) ; it was re-issued at some time in 1693 , with the modifications already described — a new title-page , a new Act 1 , and two new songs on single-leaf inserts later in the book . |
| 10 | In 1985 , for example , of total federal revenue of 686 billion dinars , 110 billion dinars was derived from customs duties , 264 billion dinars from basic sales tax ( of which the federal government was entitled at that time to one-half ) , and 251 billion dinars from transfers from the republics and provinces . |