Example sentences of "was [vb pp] at [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flat area to the south was drained at some time in the eighteenth century and a canal was built across it . |
| 2 | Erm briefly , the situation is that it 's alleged that he broke two stained glass door panels and Mr denies that he broke the second of the two , the one at the front door he says was broken at some time earlier on the evening on which he was involved . |
| 3 | The one at the front door he says was broken at some time earlier than the evening on which he was involved . |
| 4 | It was forbidden at that time to bring wildlife to school . |
| 5 | In fact , however , new disappointments followed on Hitler 's confident promises : the bombing , almost unimpeded by German defences , intensified ; the situation on the eastern Front worsened almost by the day ; and in the west an invasion was expected at any time . |
| 6 | It was accepted at this time that if you had talent you could sponge and exploit , as Colquhoun and MacBryde did when they abused Elizabeth Smart 's hospitality at Tilty Mill , a house belonging to Ruthven Todd and where they created havoc . |
| 7 | A great deal of work was done at that time in enlarging and landscaping the park , creating lakes and the kitchen gardens . |
| 8 | We have not yet as a nation fully acknowledged the wrong that was done at that time , and we have not fully rejected it . |
| 9 | You know , it 's bad defending , but we looked a different side second half , and not much was said at half time . |
| 10 | It is almost certain that Leonard 's interest in Zen Buddhism was sown at this time , and his ‘ anti-intellectualism ’ confirmed . |
| 11 | The Market Hall was demolished at that time , exposing the flank wall of No. 114 , on which was sign-written the times of cars to Mitcham and Sutton . |
| 12 | It was noted at that time that there were low level information technology utilisation in the departments , consequently the cost of implementation would be a major factor when considering the design of either system . |
| 13 | In mathematics he was clearly one year ahead , and was immediately awarded a Founder 's scholarship and two small exhibitions — and this at St John 's College which was noted at this time for its academic distinction . |
| 14 | The machinery of the ancient Forest courts was found at this time to be cumbrous and ineffective . |
| 15 | By contrast Engels 's position was that the family , as it was known in his time , had not always existed in that form , that marriage as it was known at that time had also not always existed . |
| 16 | November 1697 , will always be associated with Chiswick , although he was constantly referred to , in his day , as ‘ Mr. Hogarth of Leicester Fields ’ — the name by which Leicester Square was known at that time — as that was his business centre and where he worked before he married . |
| 17 | We should remember that very little was known at that time about the ways in which the ovaries influence distant organs . |
| 18 | Its eponym , the harpist Ludovico , is believed to have produces falsas ( chromatic ‘ wrong notes ’ ) by pressing a finger against a string to shorten its sounding length — King uses instead a type of double harp that was known at that time — and this device is still used by folk harpists in South America . |
| 19 | I see a set of conclusions that achieve almost everything that was demanded at that time and I am grateful to everybody concerned who 's actually sat down and actually really thought about what we 're trying to do and everybody has made some compromise here and I shall certainly support this amendment and I shall make the compromise because the one thing in here that I thought was necessary that is n't there is the statement that there will be a head of centre and having actually worked in a project , head of sorry , head of project and having actually worked in a situation where I was a joint manager erm in the long run I think people will see the the wisdom of of a single head of project . |
| 20 | The contract was concluded at that time . |
| 21 | ‘ I have had a letter from Maureen in which she says Niazy has written to her , telling her she was involved at that time and while he is in prison , she will stay in prison . |
| 22 | The other related campaign in which Mrs Whitehouse was involved at this time — and more centrally than in the OZ case — was the prosecution brought against the publisher of a book of advice for schoolchildren called The Little Red Schoolbook . |
| 23 | Don Neely said that Crowe was asked at this time whether he was available for the World Cup if somebody else were skipper : ‘ I wo n't tell you his reaction . |
| 24 | What I was trying to say my Lord was that I did n't know was associated or was associated at that time . |
| 25 | This was an intelligence test that was taken at that time by all children who wanted state education . |
| 26 | A further problem was identified at this time . |
| 27 | Despite later Communist acceptance of this policy it was rejected at this time by William Rust for the Party . |
| 28 | James , the leader of the Jerusalem Church , was killed at this time . |
| 29 | He considers that the nineteenth century cases of Camplin , Flattery and Williams accomplished no more than to include within rape sexual intercourse with an unconscious woman or one deceived by a specific type of fraud and that the 1976 Act merely declares the law as it was established at that time . |
| 30 | Although other burials clustered around the enclosure , the internal area was respected , until the whole monument was dismantled at some time in the fourth century . |