Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The immediate success of Autocover when it started in 1982 clearly demonstrated just how competitive the premiums were at that time . |
| 2 | All the Duchamp brothers were at this time passionately interested in mathematics ; Jacques Villon was engaged in reading Leonardo 's Trattato della Pittura , while Marcel Duchamp was a close friend of an amateur mathematician named Maurice Princet , so that it is not surprising that they should have been responsible for introducing a more scientific note into Cubist discussions . |
| 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 | This criticism is part of a wider attack on the use of classification of functions as a criterion for deciding issues such as the availability of judicial remedies to control administrative action ( the remedy of certiorari was at one time said to be available only if the decision-maker was under a duty to act ‘ judicially ’ ) , or the applicability of the rules of natural justice in particular circumstances ( sometimes said to apply only to ‘ judicial functions ’ ) . |
| 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 scheme was devised by men for men , since no women civil servants were at that time employed ( Rhodes , 1965 , Chapter 2 ) . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The defences were at that time concerned with 59 Squadron which was bombing the docks . |
| 9 | It appeared that Princess Anne was not one of her admirers , and though Princess Anne 's views were at this time usually rather criticised this was something for the press to get its teeth into . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | All the children were at that time highly disturbed and were placed with the foster mother on a long term fostering basis . |
| 14 | If the videos are at any time broadcast for public viewing the Publisher will negotiate a residual fee which will be in line with the agreement for minimum fees that exist at the time between the Society of Authors/Writers ' Guild and ITCA/BBC . |
| 15 | 5 If the videos are at any time broadcast for public viewing , we will negotiate a residual fee which will be in general line with the agreement for minimum fees that exist at the time between the Society of Authors/Writers ' Guild and ITCA/BBC . |
| 16 | Quails ( 16:13 ) : twice a year the common quail 's migration route takes it across the region where the Israelites were at this time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The transmitters were at that time a completely sealed unit resembling a marble both in size and appearance . |
| 19 | ‘ The bowels are at one time constipated , at another lax , in the same person … |
| 20 | The brief interval allowed for the establishment of a link between neutral and significant events was at one time elevated into a general law of associative learning . |