Example sentences of "were [vb pp] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | The difference is hard to explain as there was no difference between the two groups in terms of whether or not they were employed at the time they enquired about the courses . |
| 32 | Patients were randomised at the time of endoscopy or within 12 hours after fulfilling the inclusion criteria . |
| 33 | When interpreting these tables it should be remembered that no matter how many animals were stolen at a time the case was recorded as one theft . |
| 34 | In three cases technical difficulties were encountered at the time of surgery and the procedure was acknowledged to have been inadequate in terms of gastric devascularisation . |
| 35 | Before the sustained economic recession of the inter-war years it was thought that the economy automatically moved towards full employment , even though periodic booms and slumps were experienced at the time . |
| 36 | In other words , 67% of the urine samples found to be positive on culture were judged at the time of voiding to be clear . |
| 37 | The two men were arrested at a time of increasing student political activism , and a renewed government offensive against the supposed communist threat . |
| 38 | A total of 478 students were arrested at the time and held for several days . |
| 39 | It can also be viewed as combining elements of treaty law with territorial competence : the acceptance of the territory within the previously agreed boundaries incurs acceptance of any conditions that were negotiated at the time of the boundary settlement . |
| 40 | The 1927 powers of detention were conferred at a time of enormous concern about the high birth rate of mental defectives and the supposed decline in the ‘ national intelligence ’ . |
| 41 | All the intriguing questions which were asked at the time , not least as to why she contributed , either deliberately or through naivety , to it becoming one of the sporting mysteries of the year in the first place , will have to remain unanswered . |
| 42 | After all we knew that subsidy did n't exist to subsidise empty seats but rather the necessary and new ideas that were wanted at the time . |
| 43 | The centres with high U/Pb also have higher average Ce/Pb than most basalts ( Fig. 3 c ) If the U/Pb ratios are representative of their sources and were fractionated at the time of formation of the oceanic lithosphere , this must also be true of the Ce/Pb ratios . |
| 44 | Blood samples of the fasted state of the rats were taken at the time when the animals were killed for measurement of gastrin and CCK in plasma and were collected in EDTA tubes from the internal jugular vein . |
| 45 | Child deaths were identified at the time of the home visits , and also through a network of about 100 key informants — members of the study community who were asked to record all pregnancies , births , and child deaths in their area . |
| 46 | C 5 -unmethylated phasmid DNA was incubated with S-adenosyl-[ 3 H ] -methionine and Dcm or Dcm/Cys177Ser ; aliquots of the reaction mixture were removed at the time points indicated and DNA precipitated with 20% aqueous TCA . |
| 47 | So Smith is arguing that Freud 's analyses were conducted at a time when society was still undergoing a fundamental shift towards not only an industrialised society but one characterised by the growth of large cities . |
| 48 | Scotland , compared to England and Wales , has relatively few medieval churches but , precisely because so many were destroyed at the time of the Reformation , Scotland is rich in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ecclesiastical architecture . |
| 49 | The murder , it is suspected , was intended to foment open conflict in Belfast between the Ulster Defence Association and the rival Ulster Volunteer Force as relations between them were strained at the time . |
| 50 | We were engaged at the time on a pre-disturbance survey of HMS Hazardous , a man-of-war which sank in November 1706 . |
| 51 | The report focussed particularly on universities which were constructed at a time when long-lasting buildings were not a priority . |
| 52 | But those arguments were expressed at a time when their implications were seen as inappropriate , unrealistic or unacceptable by many managers . |
| 53 | The idea that there is some correct and timeless view , against which historical controversies can be judged , can prove an insensitive guide to the issues as they were perceived at the time . |
| 54 | People arrested late in 1991 were beaten at the time of their arrest and tortured and beaten while in detention . |
| 55 | In two recent books which attempt to examine the philosophy and practice of a radical adult education , the only substantial references to education for trade unionists are historical ; yet both books were conceived at a time of unparalleled expansion in trade union education , underpinned by a sizeable government grant and the first statutory entitlements to paid educational leave for working-class people that Britain has ever experienced . |
| 56 | Only 1 man in 5 had planned the occasion , for 17% it was a one-night stand , for 13% it happened at a party , while 11% say they were drunk at the time . |
| 57 | Volunteers from the Gambian village , Brefet , which has hyperendemic malaria , were studied at the time of year with lowest malaria transmission : none had had a recent febrile illness . |
| 58 | Supporting evidence is also taken from data collected by a survey of libraries in the UK carried out by CRUS ( The Centre for Research on User Studies ) , during the early part of 1984 , which included a series of questions concerning training , not all of which were analysed at the time ( see Appendix 1 ) . |
| 59 | ‘ Liza Jane ’ and ‘ Pity the Fool ’ were released at the time we joined him because he brought this record along and said , ‘ What do you think of this ? ’ |
| 60 | All these items were acquired at the time of their manufacture , as it was museum policy to buy contemporary material . |