Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three cases of misclassification of delirium were due to the time delay between the team and research assessments ; by the time of the second assessment , the delirium apparent at the first had substantially resolved to reveal an underlying depression or dementia , or both . |
| 2 | Thirteen patients did not enter the study : two did not want to , two were pregnant at the time of colposcopy , and nine were not treated in accordance with the study protocol ( no cervical scrape or no biopsy specimen was taken or no treatment was given when the biopsy specimen showed cervical intraepithelial neoplasia ) . |
| 3 | Between 1680 and 1800 the proportion of brides who were pregnant at the time of their wedding grew from 15 to 35 per cent and the illegitimacy ratio rose from 1·5 to 5 per cent . |
| 4 | None of the patients were pregnant at the time of the study or had taken any drug which could potentially interfere with gall bladder motility . |
| 5 | There would always be that fear that it a similar incident might happen and er and that er it was those who were asleep at the time who were unlucky enough not to survive . |
| 6 | Both sides have struggled in the league this year and Haslemere were grateful for the time and space they were allowed in this match . |
| 7 | Of the 18 patients who were alive at the time of the 1988 report , 14 patients ( 11 men and three women , mean age 48 years ) were alive and well in 1992 at a mean ( range ) of 69 ( 61–83 ) months after transplantation . |
| 8 | Its just a pity there s not a better song to really get at the SCUM supporters , that does nt perhaps offend the older generation who WERE alive at the time . |
| 9 | Lorry drivers in a transport cafe enjoying their breakfast were marooned for a time and really the best form of transport was by canoe . |
| 10 | While a good case can , in retrospect , he made for the national interest being served by higher prices , there were few at the time who argued against the interpretation of Citrine and Self that there was a long-run obligation to sell as much electricity as possible at as low a price as possible . |
| 11 | I kept them clean and well-dressed , made sure they ate the right things , had regular dental checks and all that , but some of my methods were unorthodox for the time . |
| 12 | While 42 ( 69 per cent ) interviewees had worked at some time or other , the overwhelming majority ( 89 per cent ) were unemployed at the time of interview . |
| 13 | Both were illiterate at the time . |
| 14 | Package APCK3 and all its modules were offline at the time of the listing . |
| 15 | On this occasion , however , Kaifu had resisted the move , arguing that Cabinet stability and continuity were crucial at a time when the government was under pressure from the impact of the Gulf crisis and from the collapse of the " Uruguay Round " of multinational trade negotiations . |
| 16 | His reasons for using the guillotine in the past , which were appropriate at the time but are inappropriate now , were apparently that Labour legislation was very good and his guillotine motions showed the requisite democratic reticence . |
| 17 | The patients were under only local anaesthetic , and so were conscious at the time and able to talk to the doctor . |
| 18 | Lenghaus performed autopsies on nine cetaceans , of which seven were ill at the time of death . |
| 19 | ‘ You were ill at the time to some extent , but you were a businessman and must have known what you were doing , paying substantial sums of money yourself . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We were frustrated at the time but came out with a completely proven business plan , ’ Mr Church says . |
| 21 | This was the case whether or not calculi were present at the time . |
| 22 | No evidence of H pylori infection or mucosal inflammation were present at the time of reinvestigation . |
| 23 | And it is retroactive : it applies even to actions that were legal at the time . |
| 24 | The fees were substantial for the time — ten guineas for pupils under 12 , and fifteen for those older . |
| 25 | Patients were drawn from the outpatient service of the University Department of Medicine , Hope Hospital , Salford and comprised 38 disease control subjects and 65 patients with proved gluten sensitivity , of whom 32 were untreated at the time of study . |
| 26 | Dr Ward has spoken of the potential effects on children who were unborn at the time of the incident . |
| 27 | A quarter of his adult male informants and nearly two thirds of married females said they were virgin at the time of marriage . |
| 28 | EC Foreign Ministers had on Nov. 4 told their five Arab Maghreb Union ( AMU ) counterparts , with whom they were meeting in Brussels , that they were unable for the time being to lift the sanctions that restricted arms sales to and diplomatic relations with Libya . |
| 29 | The novels enjoyed a limited success , but because most novelists were concerned at the time to redefine the relation of the individual to society in terms of changing values , it was all too easy for readers to focus on the social dimension of Brooke-Rose 's fiction and to overlook those aspects which can in retrospect be seen to prefigure the problems and techniques of her later work . |
| 30 | Um and I think there 's some acknowledgement in these quotes I 've got under end results , classifications and syndromes which um I suppose there 's some acknowledgement that maybe these things were adaptive at the time but maybe once people are grown up they 're not quite so adaptive . |