Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather more surprisingly perhaps , Sun and Star readers ( taken together ) were at that time split fairly evenly between Labour and Conservative with the Alliance a fairly close third . |
| 2 | I made my way to this celebrated establishment , and was very surprised to find an open salon ; we in Britain were at that time still cowering modestly in cubicles . |
| 3 | Martin Martin ( 1703 ) who wrote his well-documented Description of the Western Islands of Scotland has left a wide and varied record of many of the plant uses which were at that time extant . |
| 4 | Even in the nineteenth century , many hundreds of vessels passed through the Straits each year , most of them small coasting ships but also a good many larger vessels trading between Europe and the East Indies ( Java and Sumatra were at that time prosperous Dutch colonies ) . |
| 5 | The first GCE O and A level examinations were held in 1951 ( S levels were at that time an essential part of the system as well , since on them depended the award of State scholarships to university candidates , before the days of Mandatory awards ) . |
| 6 | There seems to be no doubt , therefore , that Yugoslav trade values are ( or at least were at that time ) underreported in terms of dollars , and that the difference was especially large in the case of Yugoslav imports . |
| 7 | The deaf of Glasgow were at that time extremely fortunate to have in William Agnew a most intelligent and capable man , an artist in his leisure time , who through his hobby had come into contact with Queen Victoria and who enjoyed a friendship with Lord and Lady Blythswood ( Glasgow Deaf and Dumb F.C . |
| 8 | The transmitters were at that time a completely sealed unit resembling a marble both in size and appearance . |
| 9 | The speed reductions would be achieved , by applying at critical points in the network , some of the same sort of Verkehrsberuhigung measures as those which were at that time being installed in the new rest and play areas . |
| 10 | The sale agreed and completed was thus for the land and buildings as they were at that time . |
| 11 | The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight ( BBMF ) were at that time based at Coltishall , Norfolk . |
| 12 | The defences were at that time concerned with 59 Squadron which was bombing the docks . |
| 13 | The other was Vasiliki ware ; this marked the end of the pattern burnish technique and the beginning of a new finish , a reddish-brown wash deliberately applied unevenly in order to simulate the mottled texture of the stone vases that were at that time so fashionable in eastern Crete ( Figure 32C ) . |
| 14 | There were at that time no fewer than 522 Boeing 707/300 aircraft in operation , every one of which was directly affected by the accident . |
| 15 | According to the most recent Green Paper ( DES 1985b ) there were at that time 184 institutions engaged wholly or mainly in the provision of higher education courses , and another 372 in which some provision was at this level — a total of 556 ( 10 fewer than given in Annex A of that document ) . |
| 16 | All the children were at that time highly disturbed and were placed with the foster mother on a long term fostering basis . |
| 17 | All were at that time employed in the Winchester office of the Royal Life Insurance Co . |
| 18 | The scheme was devised by men for men , since no women civil servants were at that time employed ( Rhodes , 1965 , Chapter 2 ) . |
| 19 | We were At that time of day the minima the minimum wage was fourteen shillings a day . |
| 20 | Of course , they 've got out of all recognition today , but three a penny fresh herren were at that time . |
| 21 | We were , however , readier , I think , than at the beginning , to take seriously and to counter , the equally serious convictions of those who held that there was no place for courses similar to ours , of which there were at that time a number in various stages of development . |
| 22 | The Report began by identifying some 130,000 part-time teachers in further and adult education who were at that time employed by local authorities and although nobody knows how many are employed over the country as a whole at present , even after the severe reductions of recent years they are likely to number more than 100,000 . |
| 23 | Sir Daniel bade his brother Roger , then living at Coniston Hall , make a report on the mines as they were at that time . |
| 24 | Least they were at that time . |
| 25 | Perhaps the most striking case of this is J. A. Thugut , Austrian representative at Constantinople in 1769–75 , who was throughout these years an agent in French pay regularly transmitting confidential information to his French colleague , the Comte de Saint-Priest ( though it is true that French and Austria were at that time allies , at least in name ) . |
| 26 | The immediate success of Autocover when it started in 1982 clearly demonstrated just how competitive the premiums were at that time . |
| 27 | Rational planning was to be achieved by unifying health services , which were at that time split between local authorities , the boards of governors of teaching hospitals , a regional and local administration responsible for other hospitals and the executive councils who administered the contracts for general practitioners ( see Figure 1.1 ) . |
| 28 | Well I think we will be er in a sense looking erm you know at the options that are available and all the options that are available after two thousand six , er we have n't looked at those in gr in any great detail , what the options were at that time . |
| 29 | Principally there were at that time other interested parties in the premises er and also erm Mr saw it as essential er that er they were in and running the business er well before the time of the Christmas trade which was rapidly approaching then , then it being late August and er he wanted to make sure that they were in in in time for them to be able to take advantage of those bookings that they anticipated . |
| 30 | the ministers of the forest … have taken again into the forest lands and woods as entirely as they were at any time , contrary to the Charter … and cause ditches to be thrown down , and interfere with their cultivation , and take from them grievous and excessive ransoms . |