Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Both were illiterate at the time . |
| 10 | Package APCK3 and all its modules were offline at the time of the listing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The patients were under only local anaesthetic , and so were conscious at the time and able to talk to the doctor . |
| 13 | Lenghaus performed autopsies on nine cetaceans , of which seven were ill at the time of death . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We were frustrated at the time but came out with a completely proven business plan , ’ Mr Church says . |
| 16 | This was the case whether or not calculi were present at the time . |
| 17 | No evidence of H pylori infection or mucosal inflammation were present at the time of reinvestigation . |
| 18 | And it is retroactive : it applies even to actions that were legal at the time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Dr Ward has spoken of the potential effects on children who were unborn at the time of the incident . |
| 21 | A quarter of his adult male informants and nearly two thirds of married females said they were virgin at the time of marriage . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Of those councillors who were twin-tracking at the time of the Widdicombe Committee , 58 per cent were teachers or lecturers , 12 per cent were manual workers , 16 per cent were in professional jobs ( social workers , planners and so on and 14 per cent were administrators ( Widdicombe Research , Vol. iii:34 ) . |
| 25 | We 'd have liked to try the LSE with Lowden 's new preamp system complete with volume and treble/bass controls on the upper bout , but none were available at the time and we 've had to make do with the non-controlled version . |
| 26 | With his film background , Verity Lambert saw in Barry a good technical brain , ingenious enough to overcome Doctor Who 's limited budget through inventiveness and by optimum use of what special effects were available at the time . |
| 27 | The original calculations which are outlined in er N Y six are based on assumptions which were available at the time which were based on the eighty one census essentially , those calculations form the basis of the consultation plan and the deposit plan . |
| 28 | Details of Hector 's history were obscure at the time of writing . |
| 29 | You cover the parts listed on pages two and three , which is engine , gearbox , erm differential , prop shaft , brakes , electrical , etc. , but that 's qualified by the fact that you do n't cover any parts which were faulty at the time of purchase , or inherent faults at the time of purchase , |
| 30 | The mean ( SD ) ages of the patients positive , 20.1 ( 7.9 ) months , and negative , 29.4 ( 16.1 ) months , to oral challenge were comparable at the time of the provocation ; the difference of 9.3 months with 95% confidence interval of ( -0.2 , 18.8 ) was statistically not significant . |