Example sentences of "[noun] at [art] time [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prominent in his thinking at the time was Wilhelm Reich , the advocate of the practice of free love , which he believed would bring all power systems crashing to the ground . |
| 2 | Er , I moved the original motion , and the thinking at the time was , after a lot of discussion , that eight one as it appears on the agenda , to maintain the estate at around it 's level was the correct decision . |
| 3 | Three people who were in the car at the time were injured in the crash , one of them seriously . |
| 4 | My girlfriend at the time was the daughter of an exterior decorator , and I hated exterior decorating — I mean , even at home just helping out — I hated it , but I did it because it was something to do . |
| 5 | Important theoretical influences at the time were the writings of Bernstein , Illich and Freire . |
| 6 | We went to Edinburgh on our wedding tour and I thought it beautiful but I think that my state of mind at the time was such that I should have thought anywhere beautiful . |
| 7 | I believe erm the rulers of Kuwait at the time were very erm wise to make such treaty with the British for the protection of their country and the British respected the Kuwait autonomy at the time and this joint erm respect for each other I believe which gave rise to Kuwait to be what it is today . |
| 8 | First , it failed to take account of the fact that British industry at the time was undergoing traumatic upheavals and that the impact of this upon firms had to be recognized if the need to decentralize in the first place was to be understood . |
| 9 | The aircraft at the time were within the regulations which is reinforced by the fact that they crashed well away from the public area . |
| 10 | Another person who was around the scene at the time was Chrissie Hynde who , after Malcolm 's shop and writing for the NME , had really been scuffling around . |
| 11 | The main method of alkali manufacture at the time was that of Nicolas Leblanc , which had the defect of pouring into the air large quantities of hydrogen chloride gas , a pollutant of extreme severity . |
| 12 | The acting schoolmaster at the time was a young unmarried man . |
| 13 | Restoration gossip that Norton lived at Richmond Palace , acquired at a cheap rate after the king 's execution , is puzzling ; his home at the time was actually Oatlands Park , near Weybridge , Surrey , and at his death his widow claimed to be penniless . |
| 14 | The analogies at the time were very crude and based upon feudal understandings of barons and servants and themes of honour , respect and dignity . |
| 15 | She remembered that John 's only rehearsal place at the time was in a long room above a sundry warehouse in Lower Moseley Street . |
| 16 | Jack 's average fee at the time was several noughts less . |
| 17 | The general consensus of opinion at the time was that Louis had lost all reason . |
| 18 | My opinion at the time was that Saunders had committed the foul , but it must be said that there appeared nothing malicious about the way he attempted to gain possession . |
| 19 | On I8 April 1983 the American Embassy in Beirut was car-bombed and collapsed like a pack of cards , sixty-three employees , including a team of senior CIA agents holding a meeting at the time were killed . |
| 20 | The other great catchphrase at the time was ‘ swingin' , dodgy ’ made famous by comic Norman Vaughan the host of Sunday night 's Palladium Show . |
| 21 | And my husband at the time was making er wine , you know . |
| 22 | One day at a time was how it now must be , and this one day she was adrift , tired and hungry , with new flat-heeled shoes that hurt like hell . |
| 23 | As we have repeatedly noted , however , politics and religion for Israel at the time were inextricably associated — were , in fact , essentially different manifestations of the same thing . |
| 24 | ( By way of indication of what this represented in the family budget , it has been estimated that weekly expenditure on food in working-class families at the time was about 35 per head . ) " |
| 25 | The Bulgarians wanted Guentchev to join their squad for the match with Austria in Vienna , but Town 's schedule at the time was too hectic . |
| 26 | Indeed , the influence of women writers at the time was rising in many areas , as Fanny Burney 's Evelina ( 1778 ) and Hannah Cowley 's dramatic works placed them in the forefront of contemporary literature . |
| 27 | Because inflation at the time was about 16% , this inevitably meant a sharp cut in the workforce . |
| 28 | In Sheffield ( Britain 's fourth largest city ) the only gay facility at the time was an upstairs bar in a pub called The King William . |
| 29 | Montgomery at the time was wandering around with a BBC camera crew all across Africa , talking about his ability . |
| 30 | Gunthardt had been a Wimbledon quarter-finalist that year in singles and had won the doubles title with Balazs Taroczy of Hungary so Bates ' victory at the time was a little short of sensational . |