Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [vb pp] at [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | The walls of Caen were constructed in the years following Edward III 's capture of the town in 1346 ; those of Rouen were begun at the same time on the orders of Philip VI , making the city one of the few properly defended towns , or ‘ villes closes ’ of upper Normandy ; Avignon 's wall was started at the instigation of Pope Innocent VI about 1355 ; while the defences of Tours , in course of construction in 1356 , were probably sufficiently advanced to deter the Black Prince from attacking the town on his chevauchée in the summer of that year . |
| 2 | For this reason the constables of many royal castles were appointed at the same time to be wardens of neighbouring forests : the constable of Rockingham castle was usually warden of the forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges ; the constable of Porchester kept Bere Porchester Forest ; the constable of Devizes kept Chippenham and Melksham Forests ; the constable of St Briavels the Forest of Dean ; the constable of Castleton the Forest of the Peak ; and the constable of Windsor castle was also warden of Windsor Forest . |
| 3 | Subjects were studied at the same time of day on four occasions at least seven days apart . |
| 4 | Jacqueline de Romilly , Professor of Greek Literature at the Sorbonne , in her Messenger Lectures at Cornell University in 1967 on ‘ Time in Greek Tragedy ’ , has argued that it was no coincidence that Greek tragedy was born at the same time as historiography . |
| 5 | To reduce the risk of variable staining intensities , Grimelius staining was performed at the same time for all the specimens of one examination year . |
| 6 | Chlorine was used at the same time , and one may suppose that confusion arose in many minds about their separate effects . |
| 7 | The lower part of the corps de logis on the southern or river side was built at the same time as the keep , but later raised , when a northern wing was added to it . |
| 8 | Traditionally it has been thought that meteorites were formed at the same time as the solar planets , and the composition of them was used as a ‘ fossil guide ’ to the make-up of the planets . |
| 9 | And as we believe that erm the earth and the sun were formed at the same time , so we 're starting to know a lot more about the original material from which the sun and the earth were formed , and here we find that it 's just full of prebiotic molecules which we did not know beforehand and therefore puts a different perspective on what we think the earth 's early atmosphere might have been . |
| 10 | About halfway between Venice and the modern city of Trieste there is another island lagoon formation at Grado , where settlements were established at the same time as those in the Venetian lagoon . |
| 11 | The statutes of the institute were altered at the same time to give Servan-Schreiber executive control . |
| 12 | According to Murimuth the bestowal of titles on the six earls was followed by the dubbing of twenty-four new knights , and other nobles were rewarded at the same time . |
| 13 | In a letter to the British Medical Journal in 1938 on the treatment of pneumonia he stated that sulphapyridine was active against pneumococci only when helped by leucocytes , and ( true to the tradition of Almroth Wright ) its action was improved if anti-pneumococcal serum was administered at the same time . |
| 14 | Two further appointments were made at the same time . |
| 15 | Where necessary , new bridges , such as the Pont Saint-Michel , were built to cross the Seine , whose quays were developed at the same time as arteries for traffic . |
| 16 | The unusual nature of these counter-examples indicates that they are indeed the exceptions which prove the rule , and it is normally reasonable to assume that coins made from the same die were produced at the same time and place . |
| 17 | Eleven other senior police officials were removed at the same time . |
| 18 | A cervical vagotomy was performed through a midline neck incision and a tracheostomy tube was inserted at the same time . |
| 19 | Although it is not clear whether the Falange leader was notified at the same time , the indications are that he was aware of Franco 's decision , for he called an extraordinary session of the party 's National Council , in order to elect a permanent party leader . |
| 20 | A National Development Group was established at the same time to advise on policy . |
| 21 | In January , the day before a conference on chemical weapons opened in Paris , the Romanian leader announced publicly that he would not accept a ban on chemical weapons unless a universal ban on nuclear weapons was agreed at the same time . |
| 22 | Exchange regulations were relaxed at the same time to allow people to acquire foreign currency . |
| 23 | By the time of Jesus the two festivals were celebrated at the same time . |
| 24 | Dialysis was performed at the same time of day for each subject . |
| 25 | Goh Chok Tong replaced Lee Kuan Yew as Prime Minister in November 1990 and the Cabinet was reshuffled at the same time [ see p. 37860 ] . |
| 26 | When the heir had done homage to the king , it was usual for the Justice of the Forest , on receipt of the appropriate writ , to take from him security for the payment of relief , and then to give him seisin of his Forest bailiwick ; the king 's escheator was ordered at the same time to hand over his lands to him , those appurtenant to his forestership , and whatever others he might hold in chief by other service . |
| 27 | A sample from the original PEG batch given to the patients was analysed at the same time . |
| 28 | A parallel Committee on the Staffing of Local Government was established at the same time ‘ to consider the existing methods of recruiting local government officers and of using them ; and what changes might help local authorities to get the best possible service and help their officers to give it ’ ( Mallaby 1967:iii ) . |
| 29 | Of course , it would be much too simple if die links always proved that two objects were made at the same place and time . |
| 30 | For instance , in 1936 the style of certain Athenian coins was compared with that of other arts , and the conclusion was drawn that the coins were produced at the same time as the other objects , i.e. , 565BC ; but we now believe that the true date of these coins is some sixty years later . |