Example sentences of "[was/were] at one time " in BNC.
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1 | The case is made slightly untoward by the fact that both Mrs Cons-Boutboul and her former son-in-law were at one time barristers . |
2 | There were at one time a number of city-states , each with its own god . |
3 | One of the major functions of education must be to open people 's eyes to the fact that things were at one time different ; that they have evolved to where they are now ; and that they need not necessarily always remain as they are . |
4 | It seems that relations between the two men were at one time good , as on his tour of northern Italy in 1851 , Scott saw Ruskin in Venice , whom he had met previously , ‘ and spent a most delightful evening with him ’ . |
5 | The sciences were at one time supposed to generalize from observations by a logical operation called induction , claimed to free them from dependence on the merely analogical thinking which prevailed in the mediaeval proto-sciences , and which regrettably remain for the time being indispensable in dealing with everyday problems . |
6 | The texts in which Judas Thomas appears as Jesus 's twin were at one time widely used by Christian congregations , not only in Egypt and Syria , but also , as we shall see , as far away as Spain and , it seems , Ireland . |
7 | They resent the " off-comed-un " , the " bloody potoiler " , the " bloody hiker " , forgetting that no matter how far back their own roots go , they or their ancestors were at one time " foreigners " too . |
8 | These two half-villages were at one time in rivalry and even now , I noticed , each has its own war memorial even if the names carved on it are the same for both . |
9 | The high rates of diagnosis of schizophrenia among black people were at one time thought to be due to widespread misdiagnosis of bizarre behaviour and transient hallucinatory experiences by white psychiatrists unfamiliar with normal Afro-Caribbean cultural expressions of severe distress . |
10 | ‘ We were at one time , ’ said Doctor Lanyon . |
11 | Securicor were at one time synonymous with quality for they have paid to be synonymous with quality . |
12 | There were at one time , as the hon. Member for Ilford , South said , rumours that the TA could be cut to almost 55,000 or 50,000 . |
13 | The terms ‘ thesis ’ and ‘ dissertation ’ were at one time rather interchangeable , but now in the UK , the term ‘ thesis ’ is generally restricted to doctorate work , whereas master 's degree candidates write a ‘ dissertation ’ . |
14 | The more that public administration is called upon to solve problems that were at one time left to the market , the greater the contradiction — a point made by Habermas ( 1976 ) and Offe ( 1975 ) . |
15 | er , In spite of the fact that the Germanies were at one time united , it , it 's almost a culture shock I suppose . |
16 | Their work bears witness both to the power of partnership and to the powers of expression which we feel able to attribute to groups , to some circle of friends or literary ‘ school ’ — in this case , the group which was at one time drunkenly designated the scholarship boys , angry young men or hypergamists of the Fifties . |
17 | Echinacea purpurea , also native to the American prairies , was at one time included with the rudbeckias as R. purpurea , differing most obviously in having purplish-red ray-florets . |
18 | As followers of these pages will know , this project was at one time to have been directed by a America 's leading connoisseur of chaos , lunacy and bad taste , John Waters ( who made Pink Flamingos and Hairspray ) . |
19 | Mr Holmes a Court has trimmed his Dalgety stake which was at one time nearer 5.8 per cent . |
20 | Amstrad , following extensive option trading with more than 3,200 contracts , was at one time down 5.5p at 57p . |
21 | Repton was an Anglo-Saxon town , on the south bank of the River Trent , and was at one time a chief city of the Kingdom of Mercia . |
22 | It is noteworthy that Ralph Vaughan Williams was at one time the organist here . |
23 | Born in 1864 , she was at one time wooed by the future Kaiser William but instead married the Russian Grand Duke Sergei , assassinated by anarchists in 1905 . |
24 | The amber was at one time polished to make a pendant with the fly as centre piece . |
25 | St Mark 's was at one time one of the most popular and best-attended churches , when Mayfair was truly a residential area . |
26 | But , like its relatives in Devon , the Sussex has remained largely confined to its own region in spite of its potential , though it was at one time more widely used in several English counties as a draught animal . |
27 | In our day it seems incredible that the landscape was at one time of no consideration to artists — and maybe the people in it . |
28 | Park Court , which houses Hilda 's flat , was at one time an outhouse for a local manor , but in 1931 the owner left it to the local council who then converted it into a fire station . |
29 | A farming community , existing as a hamlet in ancient times , it probably developed its agricultural resources to fit in with Kilham , which was at one time the chief market town in this part of the East Riding . |
30 | The ancient church of St Mary , with its beautiful east window , was at one time the parish church of Drypool . |