Example sentences of "at [art] time [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SLEEPY staff at The Times were left red-faced by a prankster 's naughty note . |
| 2 | Photographs of the squad taken in the early 1970s still evoke surprise in police circles , simply because they display such strong imagery of an unacceptable style , and at the time were made much of in the media , who saw the newsworthy potential of policemen in a disorderly form . |
| 3 | The analogies at the time were very crude and based upon feudal understandings of barons and servants and themes of honour , respect and dignity . |
| 4 | On I8 April 1983 the American Embassy in Beirut was car-bombed and collapsed like a pack of cards , sixty-three employees , including a team of senior CIA agents holding a meeting at the time were killed . |
| 5 | Three who suffered particularly at the time were Richard and Phoebe Winch who lived just below the Centre and in whose house I often took my evening glass of ‘ allowed ’ claret , and Ann Willson who looked after me for the Saturday and Sunday . |
| 6 | In February 1991 , he was offered the manager 's job at Birmingham City , an English Third Division club , who at the time were so down at heel they resembled an inveterate gambler staggering from one bad bet to another . |
| 7 | In London , the Old Kent Road and Anerley Schools for the Deaf which were both occupied by civil defence and military authorities at the time were also substantially damaged and needed major repairs after the war before they could be reoccupied . |
| 8 | He was assiduous in helping Ealing Colts , amongst whom at the time were Simon Hughes and Keith Tomlins . |
| 9 | All the pop songs in vogue at the time were sung communally — songs such as those from the award-winning film , Hong Gaoliang ( Red Sorghum ) and the virtual national anthem of youth during 1988 , ‘ Yi Wu Suo You ’ , ‘ The One Who Has Nothing ’ . |
| 10 | Those who were with him on the tour of Dark Summer at the time were equally astounded . |
| 11 | If he was thus eligible for that title , there must have been something which qualified him — something which distinguished him from the numerous other leaders , both military and political , who at the time were themselves becoming thorns in the Roman side . |
| 12 | As we have repeatedly noted , however , politics and religion for Israel at the time were inextricably associated — were , in fact , essentially different manifestations of the same thing . |
| 13 | Little noticed at the time were large groups who missed out in the general prosperity : the blacks , poor farmers , lower-paid workers , and the old people living on small fixed pensions , who suffered particularly from one of the continuing problems of the economy inflation . |
| 14 | On the one hand there was no group of Yugoslavs to whom the phrasing of Robertson 's order applied more completely than the Croat Ustachi , Domobranci and regular troops under German Army Group E , who at the time were approaching the Austrian border , armed and in very large numbers . |
| 15 | To allow Botham Wanderers , who at the time were without a win , to take a four-goal lead was asking for trouble . |
| 16 | ‘ To your beauty , ’ he said , though my looks at the time were nothing to write home about , ‘ coupled with the birthday of the King of Bulgaria . ’ |
| 17 | Important theoretical influences at the time were the writings of Bernstein , Illich and Freire . |
| 18 | huge complaints at the time were n't there ? |
| 19 | Staff also felt great unease about a major environment group cozying up to big business ; a significant minority of Probe 's employees at the time were opposed to promoting products from any corporation . |
| 20 | There were two female attendants on board who at the time were busy preparing beverages in the centrally situated galley . |
| 21 | By the early nineteenth century , the term ‘ Boroughmonger ’ , at any rate in Scotland , had come to mean anyone who was anti-reform , and indeed the whole Tory party at the time were branded as Boroughmongers by the radical reformers . |
| 22 | Wagenaar ( 1986 ) also found that memories rated as unpleasant at the time were less well recalled than pleasant ones ( for durations of up to two years ) , despite this , events with higher emotional involvement ratings ( ‘ moderate ’ to ‘ extreme ’ ) were generally recalled better than those with lower ratings ( ‘ nothing ’ or ‘ little ’ ) at all retention intervals studied , though again this was a relatively small effect , r(1603)=0.07 . |
| 23 | The aircraft at the time were within the regulations which is reinforced by the fact that they crashed well away from the public area . |
| 24 | I think the actions of the security firm at the time were very quick , and but for their actions I feel we may have had far more serious consequences than we actually did . ’ |
| 25 | Three people who were in the car at the time were injured in the crash , one of them seriously . |
| 26 | Regulars inside at the time were kept in the pub and quizzed by detectives . |
| 27 | But there were a few tears at the time were n't there ? |
| 28 | I believe erm the rulers of Kuwait at the time were very erm wise to make such treaty with the British for the protection of their country and the British respected the Kuwait autonomy at the time and this joint erm respect for each other I believe which gave rise to Kuwait to be what it is today . |
| 29 | No doubt there will be some who dismiss such utterances as hypocritical , asking how such views can be reconciled with the way Mr Chatrier , as President of the French Tennis Federation , worked so hard to provide Paris , in what was already a crowded autumn calendar , with what at the time was the richest official indoor tournament , other than The Masters , in terms of prize money . |
| 30 | It gave the 33,000 manual workforce 8.9 per cent , which at the time was considerably higher than the ‘ going rate ’ . |