Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] at the time " in BNC.
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| 31 | There is evidence that the whole Southern Front operation , for which North pushed particularly , was justified in retrospect with successes that were invisible at the time . |
| 32 | The classifications and quality commendations that appear in entries in this guide were correct at the time of going to press . |
| 33 | All prices were correct at the time of going to press . |
| 34 | All interest rates and lending criteria were correct at the time of going to press but readers should check with the lenders for the latest up-to-the-minute information . |
| 35 | We did three in six hours , and we were alright at the time . |
| 36 | If you were wise at the time , you will have had a second report bound up and filed , containing every fact used , every reference studied , all the results of tests , every reason you had in mind when you drew your conclusions — and you alone will have access to these private notes . |
| 37 | At one time in the recent past , willow-pattern plates and dishes were very popular , but did people buy them for the sad story of the elopement they depicted , or only because they were fashionable at the time ? |
| 38 | The newspaper eventually followed others into the Docklands print centres that were fashionable at the time , and 66 Vauxhall Bridge Road returned to its position of anonymity . |
| 39 | The prices contained in this brochure were valid at the time of publication ( October 1991 ) . |
| 40 | Sent away to boarding school when she was six ( she rarely sees her family now ) , she got three A- levels at college and shortly after got married : a mistake , she now realises , but she was pregnant at the time . |
| 41 | The coroner , Mr Lester Madrell , heard in a statement from Mrs MacIllarry , who was pregnant at the time , that she jumped on Jobson , who then pointed the gun at her , she was absolutely terrified , she grabbed her children , leaving her baby buggy bahind , and ran into the store . |
| 42 | Yeah , and we explained and said that I was pregnant at the time and we said about the policeman , oh no trouble ! |
| 43 | Maxton , in reply , foresaw the formation of a new working-class party , but would not agree that unification was opportune at the time . |
| 44 | During the next twenty months Mozart composed a substantial amount of music , including three symphonies and what was to be his last complete mass setting , K.337 ( an incomplete one survives , K.427/417a from 1782 , and the Requiem was unfinished at the time of his death ) . |
| 45 | Now it was strange at the time , I only represented the shunters and the guards and the lower grades , I did n't represent the supervisors , yard inspectors at the time . |
| 46 | Marek was asleep at the time but as soon as the woman hit the bed Nowak woke up with a scream . |
| 47 | But his profession was deficient at the time in that he failed to recognise the necessity of suffering . |
| 48 | ‘ You recollect the gossip that was rife at the time — that he had run away to a monastery ? ’ |
| 49 | On the facts the accused was guilty at the time when the label was swapped , not at the time when he removed the item from the shelf , intending to switch the label . |
| 50 | One survivor told me that her apprenticeship lasted about four years and that that was normal at the time ( she started work in 1909 at 15 after an unsuccessful start in dressmaking ) . |
| 51 | Very occasionally he also made designs to be carried out by others — and if acting in an architect 's supervisory capacity only he would charge the 5 per cent fee which was normal at the time — while at Ditchley he was , remarkably , employed as both ‘ surveyor ’ , receiving his 5 per cent , and mason contractor . |
| 52 | Well because he was half at the time it was just before I left at about nine to come down here you see . |
| 53 | There was no apparent reason why the road should not have been used as it was free at the time . |
| 54 | Er I was forty at the time so I was five |
| 55 | To make our cup full the children and I went down with Asian flu which was prevalent at the time . |
| 56 | Agoos was 22 at the time and even scored a hat-trick for the youth team during his brief spell at the Prenton Park club . |
| 57 | Agoos was 22 at the time and even scored a hat-trick for the youth team during his spell at Prenton . |
| 58 | I was twenty-one at the time and the whole experience gave me a lot of confidence . ’ |
| 59 | However , said Mr Hardy , the road was wet at the time of the accident and the officer 's report said the speed involved was probably ‘ only marginally excessive ’ . |
| 60 | One can of course see Colonel Airey 's point , although the fact remains that his Commando was unemployed at the time and Stirling was about to be required to undertake an important series of raids . |