Example sentences of "[that] was [adj] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In experiments on the colon ( colonic transit ) , one cannula was positioned in the postcaecal portion of the colon ; a second cannula was placed in the most distal part of the colon that was accessible at the time of laparotomy . |
| 2 | In Britain the courts have recently decided that a leather firm should pay the Cambridge Water Company almost £1m in damages for contaminating one of its boreholes with chlorinated solvents , even though the solvents were disposed of 17 years ago in a way that was legal at the time . |
| 3 | ‘ You recollect the gossip that was rife at the time — that he had run away to a monastery ? ’ |
| 4 | The thing is that what we need and what 's missing from this is in fact the balance that was available at the time we started this period . |
| 5 | Any such changes are confined to the application that was active at the time . |
| 6 | The walls of the pit were almost sheer , falling fifty feet to smooth , dull water that was jagged at the edges , like the top of a tin can . |
| 7 | However , Hitchcock 's keywell inlay is generally of a simple rectangle , whereas Mercier and William Smith are in agreement that the rectangle should be broken with half circles on the shorter sides — a decorative motif that was common at the time and appears on a number of spinets ( though not apparently any by Thomas Hitchcock ) . |
| 8 | I remember knitting my daughter a summer top in a colour that was fashionable at the time . |