Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er which were normal at that time . |
| 2 | Differences of opinion on nomenclature were rife at this time . |
| 3 | Keoi look like ordinary human individuals — men and women — and in fact they were this at some time , but they performed a forbidden act which transformed them into keoi . |
| 4 | He maintained that the distribution of tillites and patterns of glacial striations produced by ice sheets during the Late Palaeozoic glaciation ( now termed the Gondwana Ice Age ) found in the now widely dispersed continental areas of southern Africa , Australia , South America , India and Antarctica indicated that these land masses were contiguous at that time and probably located fairly close to the South Pole . |
| 5 | In 1949 many West European states joined America in making the NATO alliance and there were some at that time who believed in forging an ‘ Atlantic community ’ . |
| 6 | The Labour leader told an audience of business people , academics and professionals that his aim was to return to the situation of the 1960s , when fewer than one million were unemployed at any time and then mainly for short periods . |
| 7 | Mr Sutherland said the waters were dangerous at this time of year and contained almost no haddock . |
| 8 | Contacts with the Cuban embassy were good at that time , with the revolution just six years old . |
| 9 | The quillons were short at this time , curving slightly towards the blade , while the grip was short without a swell , the pommel being usually a simple knob or wheel-shape . |
| 10 | Only two systematically evaluated schemes for elderly dependants were evident at that time : Age Concern Liverpool 's Intensive Domiciliary Care Scheme ( IDCS ) for the Elderly Mentally III , and the Kent Community Care Scheme . |
| 11 | There were those at that time who cultivated melancholy to give themselves the appearance of profundity . |
| 12 | The rest were available at one time or another . |
| 13 | Unfortunately only interim findings were available at that time and the researchers were careful not to draw conclusions , but there was some evidence that on cost savings the scheme was superior to conventional community care and that strain on carers was decreasing in the experimental group . |
| 14 | Although the personal concerns of rulers and their consorts began to find reflection in the jade record as early as the Shang dynasty , in general state affairs were dominant at this time . |
| 15 | But for the mechanical hospital bed , she might have been in a first-class hotel : the sitting room was agreeably furnished in eau-de-Nil , the bedroom in old rose ; the interconnecting rooms faced the sea over lawns and flower beds , though they were bleak at this time of the year . |
| 16 | Several overseas companies were active at this time . |
| 17 | He was right at that time because he was , shall we say , " in season " , an exceptional pilot . |
| 18 | It was possible at this time to cross the harbour by stepping from one boat to another , so closely were they moored . |
| 19 | Which was interesting at that time , since it came out of a tin and not out of an office . |
| 20 | It 's a terraced house and er , it 's double storey , two floors up and er , it was well-used at that time because the reason was one er , there was n't much accommodation available and secondly it is the custom amongst our people that who 's ever er is in need we have the person , like the two of us came from India , my brother and myself , so we di could n't get a job . |
| 21 | When found , he was immediately christened ‘ Harry Lauder ’ , after the celebrated Scottish comedian who was popular at that time . |
| 22 | The top of the hill was empty at this time of day . |
| 23 | L.G.M. Rees , the pilot of the Sunderland reported : ‘ My aircraft was launched at last light the evening before the sortie since it was dangerous at that time to leave an aircraft on moorings in daylight where it could be easy prey to enemy aircraft . |
| 24 | ( I was glad at this time to remember that a woman in our own suburb had said to her once , ‘ I think you are the most attractive girl in the village ! ’ ) |
| 25 | And er I was unmarried at that time and erm I , for a number of , well till nineteen forty was the end of nineteen forty I think , I joined up and went into the , the R A O C as it was then , it became the the side that I was in of course . |
| 26 | Jesus treated individual women with a degree of seriousness and love that was unusual at that time . |
| 27 | That was extraordinary at that time . |
| 28 | Although C. has no recollection of the fact , Ward J. found that he was present at some time when Miss T. was expressing her wish not to have a blood transfusion . |
| 29 | Heathcliff was sixteen at this time . |
| 30 | It seems clear therefore that the central administration was unable at this time to exercise effective financial control over the Forest wardens . |