Example sentences of "be at [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case is made slightly untoward by the fact that both Mrs Cons-Boutboul and her former son-in-law were at one time barristers . |
| 2 | There were at one time a number of city-states , each with its own god . |
| 3 | One of the major functions of education must be to open people 's eyes to the fact that things were at one time different ; that they have evolved to where they are now ; and that they need not necessarily always remain as they are . |
| 4 | It seems that relations between the two men were at one time good , as on his tour of northern Italy in 1851 , Scott saw Ruskin in Venice , whom he had met previously , ‘ and spent a most delightful evening with him ’ . |
| 5 | The sciences were at one time supposed to generalize from observations by a logical operation called induction , claimed to free them from dependence on the merely analogical thinking which prevailed in the mediaeval proto-sciences , and which regrettably remain for the time being indispensable in dealing with everyday problems . |
| 6 | The texts in which Judas Thomas appears as Jesus 's twin were at one time widely used by Christian congregations , not only in Egypt and Syria , but also , as we shall see , as far away as Spain and , it seems , Ireland . |
| 7 | They resent the " off-comed-un " , the " bloody potoiler " , the " bloody hiker " , forgetting that no matter how far back their own roots go , they or their ancestors were at one time " foreigners " too . |
| 8 | These two half-villages were at one time in rivalry and even now , I noticed , each has its own war memorial even if the names carved on it are the same for both . |
| 9 | The high rates of diagnosis of schizophrenia among black people were at one time thought to be due to widespread misdiagnosis of bizarre behaviour and transient hallucinatory experiences by white psychiatrists unfamiliar with normal Afro-Caribbean cultural expressions of severe distress . |
| 10 | ‘ We were at one time , ’ said Doctor Lanyon . |
| 11 | Securicor were at one time synonymous with quality for they have paid to be synonymous with quality . |
| 12 | There were at one time , as the hon. Member for Ilford , South said , rumours that the TA could be cut to almost 55,000 or 50,000 . |
| 13 | The terms ‘ thesis ’ and ‘ dissertation ’ were at one time rather interchangeable , but now in the UK , the term ‘ thesis ’ is generally restricted to doctorate work , whereas master 's degree candidates write a ‘ dissertation ’ . |
| 14 | The more that public administration is called upon to solve problems that were at one time left to the market , the greater the contradiction — a point made by Habermas ( 1976 ) and Offe ( 1975 ) . |
| 15 | er , In spite of the fact that the Germanies were at one time united , it , it 's almost a culture shock I suppose . |
| 16 | ‘ The bowels are at one time constipated , at another lax , in the same person … |
| 17 | Martin was for some years tutor to the MacLeods of Skye , and had also been at one time a scholar at Leiden University in the Netherlands . |
| 18 | It is said to have been at one time the world 's largest spinning mill under one roof . |
| 19 | Before the jury was sworn the judge was asked to hear evidence from two of the prosecution witnesses on the existence and whereabouts of evidence believed to have been at one time in existence and of relevance to the case and possible use to the Defence . |
| 20 | It had been at one time , going back over a hundred and fifty years , it had been what they called a combination poorhouse . |
| 21 | There are currently 17 expeditions on Everest — the most there has ever been at one time . |
| 22 | Well it would have been at one time . |
| 23 | Later we go to sleep with the noise of rain on the flysheet , that noise that is at one time both infuriating because it means that tomorrow 's enjoyment may be curtailed , and soothing in a strange way . |
| 24 | In this case the CS is at one time associated with a US and at another time is not , and for one group of subjects different contextual cues are correlated with these arrangements . |
| 25 | Against a country who have yet to win a game in this competition , McCoist is at one time the biggest worry and the main source of inspiration for Roxburgh . |
| 26 | Their work bears witness both to the power of partnership and to the powers of expression which we feel able to attribute to groups , to some circle of friends or literary ‘ school ’ — in this case , the group which was at one time drunkenly designated the scholarship boys , angry young men or hypergamists of the Fifties . |
| 27 | Echinacea purpurea , also native to the American prairies , was at one time included with the rudbeckias as R. purpurea , differing most obviously in having purplish-red ray-florets . |
| 28 | As followers of these pages will know , this project was at one time to have been directed by a America 's leading connoisseur of chaos , lunacy and bad taste , John Waters ( who made Pink Flamingos and Hairspray ) . |
| 29 | Mr Holmes a Court has trimmed his Dalgety stake which was at one time nearer 5.8 per cent . |
| 30 | Amstrad , following extensive option trading with more than 3,200 contracts , was at one time down 5.5p at 57p . |