Example sentences of "[was/were] at [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plates have a long and illustrious history , being passed from print dealer to dealer and were at various times published by Watelet , Basan and Jean . |
| 2 | They were at all times called by their Yiddish names Bashelaya , Shinageetel , and Riffka . |
| 3 | Professor Saville has written that the old unions ‘ were able to rely upon the skill of their members as a crucial bargaining weapon ’ but ‘ the new unionists were at all times , even in years of good trade , subject to the pressures of an over-stocked labour market ’ . |
| 4 | It seemed that the appointments were at varying times , some quite early , others later in the day . |
| 5 | It seems probable that elderly people as a whole have more secure incomes and are less marginalized as consumers today than they were at earlier times in this century . |
| 6 | The problems that Sterling faced in recovering the aircraft were at some times almost insurmountable . |
| 7 | It was at such times , he said , that he was divested of all those characteristics of family , personality and reputation which identified him to the outside world . |
| 8 | He wanted to do more than just look ; it was at such times that he felt the urge to paint . |
| 9 | He could n't manage it and he said that he felt that he had to stop being an MP er for several reasons , one of them was that he thought most MPs like he agreed he was at certain times , were out of touch . |
| 10 | However , the British civil courts have ruled that the payment was unlawful and that the money was at all times the property of Guinness . |
| 11 | Assessment of capital very much influenced that , and it was ‘ of the highest importance ’ that it was at all times a proper influence . |
| 12 | Despite the fact that he had worked for most of the period of his contract in England , lived in England , was paid in English currency and paid National Insurance contributions in the UK , he was at all times liable to be recalled to Dhaka . |
| 13 | He was at all times placid , unruffled , cool , calm and collected . |
| 14 | He was at all times happy , said his lordship , to give his assent to any measure that could relieve the unfortunate debtor without giving an opportunity to the adulterer , the swindler etc. to take advantage of the same law — . |
| 15 | Yet in their intensity , their beauty and their perfection , Werner Bischof 's photographs speak of a life that was at all times deeply considered and lived to the full . |
| 16 | My relationship with Marcia Williams was at all times rather chilly . |
| 17 | I was at all times impressed by their standard of workmanship . |
| 18 | It is the defendant 's case that the plaintiff was at all times , pushing to proceed as a matter of urgency on the deal . |
| 19 | It was at those times , or times like the present as they went about the health-care tasks that were now so routine , that she most often brought up the question of this campaign over Tom . |
| 20 | A steady eighty miles an hour and where it was at these times . |
| 21 | That slag was at some times tapped during the period is shown by the debris at Shakenoak , which was accompanied by the day linings from four furnaces and forging hearths . |
| 22 | The symmetry T means that if you reverse the direction of motion of all particles and antiparticles , the system should go back to what it was at earlier times ; in other words , the laws are the same in the forward and backward directions of time . |
| 23 | Founded in the 12th century on what was then virtually an island in the fens , Denny Abbey was at different times home to Benedictine monks , Knights Templars and Franciscan nuns . |