Example sentences of "[Wh det] at [adj] time had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another casualty of this bombing raid was the Royal West of England School for the Deaf at Exeter , which at that time had seemed a safe haven , not only for the children of the area the school served , but also for the 52 children and staff of the Anerley School for the Deaf , London , who had been evacuated there on 14th September 1939 . |
| 2 | It was designed and constructed by one of the new generation of civil engineers , M. Lang , in a form that presages early Victorian railway architecture , which at that time had not yet appeared . |
| 3 | There remained only ‘ Z ’ Special Force , an undercover operation on the island run by Captains Broadhurst and Wylie , former members of the Malay police force , who organised native lookouts and a radio reporting system which at one time had 25 radio stations on the island , demonstrating how a few guerrillas may succeed in adverse local conditions where a larger force can not survive . |
| 4 | Rowland used The Observer to fight non-media battles , notably over control of the Harrods store , which at one time had been part of the House of Fraser group . |
| 5 | So the Fosse Way , which at one time had been the main road from medieval Coventry to Leicester , was ordered in the Sharnford award of 1765 to be ‘ of the same width as it hath heretofore usually been ’ . |
| 6 | More ominously , there were dozens of signs saying Ladies which at one time had adorned public loos . |