Example sentences of "[pron] was at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I gave my genuine reason for returning earlier , which was the Arts Council 's monthly meeting , in which I was deeply interested and whose chairman I was at the time . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course I was at the time . |
| 3 | I was at the time very concerned , because he was posted almost immediately to North Africa , and there was no chance of helping him forward in the early days of his Christian life . |
| 4 | Thus , in September , 1976 , a fire aboard HMS Glasgow , which was at the time under-going repairs in the Swan Hunter shipyard , resulted in the death of eight workers . |
| 5 | He had a means of doing this since she was at the time in danger of being disbarred after allegations that she had defrauded a Catholic charity active in Africa . |
| 6 | In 1840 Thomas Wilkins , who was at the time running a successful baking business , took over the mill in the centre of Bourton then known as Lower Valley Water Mills . |
| 7 | Mr Nearn , who was at the time sole concessionaire for the Seven , supplied the car used in the series . |
| 8 | Indeed , Lord Plowden ( who was at the time a civil servant engaged in economic planning and subsequently the chairman of a public corporation ) has recently suggested that the blueprint laid down in the Act was arguably too detailed , and that questions such as the division of powers between the centre and Area Boards could rationally be placed within the purview of nationalised industry management rather than of Parliament . |
| 9 | , Peter ( 1850–1918 ) , locomotive engineer , was born 13 August 1850 in Polmont , Stirlingshire , the son of George Drummond , who was at the time a permanent-way inspector on that section of the North British Railway , and his wife Christina Thomson . |
| 10 | The death threats had been provoked by Motoshima 's suggestion in December 1988 that Emperor Hirohito ( who was at the time dying of cancer ) bore some responsibility , " as do all of us who lived in that period " , for Japan 's role in the Pacific War of 1941-45 . |
| 11 | It was reported on April 11 , 1990 , that tapes of an interview held following the 1975 trial , between Gerard Conlon , one of the Four , and Peter ( now Sir Peter ) Imbert , now Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police , who was at the time of the trial a bomb squad superintendent , were becoming a source of conflict between the police and the defence lawyers at the judicial inquiry . |
| 12 | The partnership agreement sought to restrain outgoing partners over a period of five years from acting as a solicitor , notary , trade mark or patent agent or in any similar capacity in the Colony of Hong Kong whether as principal , clerk or assistant for any person , firm or company who was at the time of his ceasing to be a partner or had during the period of three years prior thereto been a client of the partnership … |
| 13 | And finally there is a statement from a woman called Sarah who was at the time of these events , church and her statement can be read because there is nothing in dispute in it . |
| 14 | who was at the time ? |
| 15 | There was at the time a French popular song , wistful and haunting , and I used to repeat it in my mind like a rosary. : |
| 16 | First , there is now , and indeed there was at the time of the committal hearing , no equity in the property . |
| 17 | You remember all the talk there was at the time , Arthur ? " |
| 18 | There was at the time of reorganization a considerable expansion of advisory services to meet the desire for increased curriculum coherence and the staff appointed were to take on much of the short course organization and guidance to schools for school focused INSET . |
| 19 | The others will chip in if they agree , but they will they are , they are wanting to set a missile to move , they 're wanting to send a bullet , they are wanting to s to evoke emotion or anger or rage or frustration or political bias or to change attitudes now for example the interesting thing about the Princess Diana erm the headline on one of those tabloids which talks about exile is I suspect that they want to evoke the constitutional crisis which there was at the time of |
| 20 | Well there was at the time obviously . |
| 21 | And I have stayed ever since because when I joined Roadwatch it was at a time when they were developing from just 15 information stations throughout the country — there are now almost 100 . |
| 22 | ‘ When I discovered I was pregnant , it was at a time when I was very manic about the group , I felt it was my mission . |
| 23 | This experience was invaluable when I went to college , for it was at a time when students in training were being told that if a lesson was interesting enough , children would listen . |
| 24 | It was at a time when there was a big age difference : the elder students were ex-soldiers . |
| 25 | It was at a time when many lesbians , angry at the lack of weight given to women 's issues within the mixed movement and at the continuing sexism of many gay men , chose to prioritize work with the women 's movement . |
| 26 | It was at a time when Joyce had brought proceedings for divorce against his first wife , an action which ended in the dissolution of the marriage in 1936 . |
| 27 | The Arab world was alarmed at the implications of the new Cabinet for the peace process , formed as it was at a time when the USA was considering breaking off its 16-month dialogue with the PLO , following the abortive raid on the Israeli coast on May 30 [ see this page for breaking off of dialogue on June 20 ] . |
| 28 | It was everyone 's dream to mix their album in their front room and that 's the kind of studio it was at the time . |
| 29 | It was at the time when The Jesus And Mary Chain were just beginning to bumble along . |
| 30 | It was at the time of the doodle-bugs , the flying bombs , and air raid warnings were frequent . |