Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas er in erm a factory , I believe , they would have had to have er the rooms whitewashed , colourwashed or whitewashed at certain times , we were n't bound up with any regulations , then . |
| 2 | Please let us know about EVERY class that operated at any time in 1988 , whether it was only a couple of weeks in January or a short summer course ( children or adults ) and take the highest number on roll at any time in the year . |
| 3 | Please make sure that EVERY class that operated at any time during 1990 is included ( even if now not running ) and give the maximum number on the roll . |
| 4 | I have no enthusiasm for returning to the sort of legislation that applied at that time . |
| 5 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 6 | Well one of the , you see , one of the strange things that happened at that time , traditionally engineers , and I think I said this in my previous statements to you , for example in where there was no bonus ever adhered to , er our members looked at their , the daily production er er routine , that any interference as far as time was concerned , by the management you know , would be an intrusion on their sacrificial rites , and therefore it was n't tolerated . |
| 7 | One of the reasons for believing that cross-species extrapolation is possible at all is that all living animals have evolved from common ancestors that existed at some time in the distant past . |
| 8 | Although the Victoria was not an especially large establishment , it backed onto an old warehouse that had at one time been split down the middle and then divided up into a series of small rooms that all opened onto a single long corridor . |
| 9 | In Nicosia that morning Andreas Panayiotou had warned us about snakes , and in particular , about the squat , dirt-coloured and venomous vipers that congregated at this time of year near water where they hunted birds . |
| 10 | I found the sexism and heterosexism of the Black movement difficult to cope with and felt at that time that I was n't considered Black enough either in my colour or my politics . |
| 11 | She was a nurse , and had at one time been a nun . |
| 12 | Still , she liked one or two of the collective , Xanthe had put some money in ( actually five hundred pounds , a fair whack ) when Miranda had asked her to , so she felt bound to give the paper some support in kind , and the office was fun — she liked pitching in with headings , sidebars , suggested stories , and pasting up till the small hours , with the help of ciggies and carafe wine ; the sex gossip was the best in town , which made up for the coffee ( though they could afford dope , they could n't rise to real coffee , and had at one time even resorted to the bitter brown syrup Camp , with the turbaned lascar on the label ) . |
| 13 | Ur was amongst the cities they conquered and sacked at this time . |
| 14 | As late Anglo-Saxon rulers were often required to give undertakings of this sort at their coronations , Cnut was possibly crowned and anointed at this time . |
| 15 | The concept of " open skies " was first proposed by President Eisenhower in 1955 , but rejected at that time by the Soviet Union . |