Example sentences of "was at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beer was at that time customarily garnished with a slice of lemon . |
| 2 | Kermode 's seminar established a useful informal link with the work going on at Cambridge , and the participants included Stephen Heath , Jonathan Culler , who was at that time teaching at Cambridge , and Culler 's then wife , Veronica Forrest-Thomson . |
| 3 | As a result of a visit to Ruthenia in 1939 on behalf of the Evening Standard during which she was briefly imprisoned , she met and married the then notorious journalist Claud Cockburn who was at that time producing his one-man newsletter The Week . |
| 4 | It was at that time that I interviewed David 's mother , Margaret Jones , who recalled a three-year-old David discovering a bag of make-up in an upstairs room and plastering himself with it , and how at one point she thought he would become a ballet dancer . |
| 5 | It was at that time , in fact , that he met Andy Warhol . |
| 6 | I was at that time in Jesus Christ , Superstar . |
| 7 | Aden was at that time an RAF command , in which the operational policy of air control had been successfully applied for some years . |
| 8 | This hotel was at that time a sort of private dwelling crammed with the owner 's collection of Catalan works of art and pastel portraits of the great singers who appeared at the nearby Opera . |
| 9 | Alexander , the King 's son , who was at that time twelve years old , called out to his father : ‘ What an excellent horse do they lose for want of skill and courage to manage him ! ’ |
| 10 | Perhaps because her own was at that time lumpen and awkward she seemed to feel the contrast painfully — such high , generous breasts , such a neat waist , such slender wrists and ankles ! |
| 11 | Her teeth were equally so , and her fresh complexion was at that time glowing with good health ; her blond hair is a beautiful shining blond colour . |
| 12 | And at three or four a.m. that morning , as O and Boy kissed for the second time , the blade of a Stanley knife sliced for the second time across the cheek of a man ( I do n't remember his name , it was n't anyone I knew ) who was at that time on his own , not with anyone , just waiting , on his own , at a bus stop , waiting for a night bus which was due at any minute . |
| 13 | J. W. ( later Sir James ) Black , who was at that time an academic pharmacologist in Glasgow , had the idea that blocking the action of adrenaline on the heart might reduce its need for oxygen and so be beneficial in angina pectoris ( a condition in which pain arises because the oxygen supply to heart muscle is insufficient ) . |
| 14 | In October 1987 the Presidency of the Central Committee of the Serbian Party summoned a special meeting of the Central Committee to consider the case of Dragiša Pavlović , who was at that time president of the Presidency of the Belgrade City Committee of the Party . |
| 15 | There was at that time little public pressure to curb immigration . |
| 16 | Lloyd Bullock was once a student in Liebig 's Geissen laboratory and was at that time involved in establishing a similar laboratory in London . |
| 17 | CD met him in Boston very soon after arriving there ; Putnam was at that time a student of portrait-painting in the studio of Francis Alexander ( 1800- c .1881 ) . |
| 18 | It was at that time he wrote the first of a series of Scots novels which were to secure for him a place in the history of literature . |
| 19 | And I was at that time a married man with two children . |
| 20 | It was through the OTC that I met my future husband , Eric , who was at that time a permanent staff instructor . |
| 21 | It was at that time like wine to be in the presence of the Lusignan Bastard , ebullient , assured of success , glowing with pride in himself and his army . |
| 22 | The highly organised St Stephen 's Society programme which she now leads was at that time a closed book to her ! |
| 23 | Curtis was at that time Assistant Colonial Secretary of the Transvaal and he was not motivated in what he did by any particular animus towards Indians . |
| 24 | Their audiences were found in independent cinemas and discussion groups : their relationship to broadcast television was at that time non-existent . |
| 25 | It is a happy blend of old and , what was at that time , new . |
| 26 | Since Hill was at that time one of the most popular comedy stars in the world , one might have imagined that the company 's duty to its shareholders was to maximise profits . |
| 27 | Then the Chief Executive made further submissions to the Secretary of State , who was at that time Malcolm Rifkind . |
| 28 | The argument advanced by the 1747 author of The London Tradesman is a little unfair , for ‘ undertaking ’ was at that time a relatively new trade , barely a century old . |
| 29 | However , as the laying-out and preparation of the body was at that time the responsibility of the family , it would appear that the guild limited themselves to three actions : the marshalling of their members to attend , and the selection from that company of those to carry the coffin ( though it would have been a strong guild able to command more than half a dozen of its members during a weekday ) ; to see the coffin safely into the church and to ensure that the burial equipment was in place ; and to attend the full obsequies on the following day , including the funeral feast . |
| 30 | At that time I had planned to acquire the Lightning with another well-known operator , who was at that time very active on the warbird scene . |