Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] at the 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 | 1 State exactly where you were at the time ( if in a motor vehicle please give number ) . |
| 5 | Except Tim 's a bit older than you were at the time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The issues raised by these comments are as relevant today as they were at the time . |
| 8 | In that year , Haringey 's Labour councillors learned more about heterosexism than they would ever have believed possible , and they have become far more articulate in their defence of lesbian and gay rights than they were at the time of their election . |
| 9 | The sharpest criticisms of this approach have been made — as they were at the time — from extreme left-wing but non-Stalinist positions . |
| 10 | Erm er they formed this committee and erm it was in Switzerland er where they were at the time . |
| 11 | Actually they 've picked up the pace Forest since the goal erm do n't this Leicester are playing anywhere near as well as they were at the time they scored . |
| 12 | The long hot days of summer are with us again — or they were at the time of writing , and long may they continue . |
| 13 | Lyndon Bolton , the managing director , yesterday described prospects as more encouraging than they were at the time of the interim report in August . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was at the time when The Jesus And Mary Chain were just beginning to bumble along . |
| 16 | It was at the time of the doodle-bugs , the flying bombs , and air raid warnings were frequent . |
| 17 | The space must not contribute anything to the reaction or else modern physics is wrong in so many issues ( which it was at the time ) . |
| 18 | Faith coming before and bringing about healing is as real to many Christians today as it was at the time of the Gospel . |
| 19 | ( It does seem a little perverse of EMI to have included with these discs the specification of the Sainte-Trinité organ as it now stands rather than as it was at the time these recordings were made . ) |
| 20 | did n't like us , oh no , no , no matter where we went there was always , there was n't trouble like there is now , I mean there was no violence as such you know , but we thought it was at the time , you know , they were n't very nice to us at all |
| 21 | We experienced the operation of a principle widely applicable and perhaps more generally recognised now than it was at the time of the events I have recorded . |
| 22 | Teacher education is a smaller scale enterprise than it was at the time of the events I have recorded . |
| 23 | I can remember when the er Going down to the harbour for salt and we were getting from the manufacturer , it was at the time , getting cod liver oil , you know , ready prepared for us which was a quite a saving . |
| 24 | It was at the time of the Bulganin-Khruschev circus and my leave was very short — not long enough to clear up my mother 's affairs as I wished to do . |
| 25 | Although this was later found to be correct , there was no way of telling how true it was at the time . |
| 26 | Yet to mere man , Venice stands today on a group of islands at the head of the Adriatic very much as it was at the time of the great Doges . |
| 27 | The mathematics curriculum is much broader now than it was at the time of the 11+ . |
| 28 | Then in late July I had my clubs stolen again I had left them for ten minutes at about 9.30pm and when I came back they were gone and it was at the time when I was about to play in two large junior competitions . |
| 29 | The list shows how easy it was at the time ( 1860 ) to raise money for a line intended to run from Craven Arms to Montgomery , and what a number of persons , sufficiently well-disposed to the district to advance such large sums would be deprived of all chance of recouping themselves by completing the line , if the policy of closing it was adopted . |
| 30 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that in many parts of the Yorkshire and Humberside region unemployment is significantly lower than it was at the time of the previous election , and that what the regional CBI fears above all else is the havoc that would be caused by a Labour Government , with their commitment to a statutory minimum wage , which would wipe out so many jobs , and to the European Community social chapter , which would make British industry uncompetitive in world terms ? |