Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are mentioned by name on eighteenth-century maps and referred to in Sir Walter Scott 's The Bridal of Triermain ; they are often supposed to mark the county boundary , which they do not , and the most popular theory is that they were erected at the time of the Border raids to delude Scots advancing up the Eden valley , from which they are conspicuously in view , into the belief that an English army was encamped there . |
| 2 | All hotels and guest houses in this brochure were registered at the time of going to press . |
| 3 | All strictures were dilated at the time of diagnosis ( and before pH monitoring when found at presentation ) . |
| 4 | Our aim in this study was to establish whether the rate of unnecessary operations and the rate of complicated appendicitis among patients undergoing surgery for suspected acute appendicitis were related to the time of presentation to hospital and the delay between presentation and surgery . |
| 5 | These applications were vetoed at the time by de Gaulle and his allies , and this veto was upheld in 1967 at the time of their second application . |
| 6 | All were used at the time of the Edgar " Ordo " . |
| 7 | These arms were commissioned at the time for a New Bond Street warehouse at a cost of 20 guineas . |
| 8 | The two dimensional images were displayed at the time of acquisition and simultaneously stored into computer hard disc memory by an array processor . |
| 9 | Doubts were raised at the time about the possible increase in working hours for headteachers in order to operate this system . |
| 10 | Only six ( 9 per cent ) of the network sample were employed at the time of interview while 58 ( 91 per cent ) were unemployed . |
| 11 | Security and crowd control video cameras were recording at the time of Saturday 's attack , but cut out when the fire blew the electricity supply . |
| 12 | Now police are examining video tapes from cameras used for crowd control and security , which it is believed were recording at the time of the attack . |
| 13 | Patients were randomised at the time of endoscopy or within 12 hours after fulfilling the inclusion criteria . |
| 14 | In three cases technical difficulties were encountered at the time of surgery and the procedure was acknowledged to have been inadequate in terms of gastric devascularisation . |
| 15 | Hypnosis may also occasionally help someone remember by encouraging them to imagine how they felt or what they were doing at the time of the event . |
| 16 | In other words , 67% of the urine samples found to be positive on culture were judged at the time of voiding to be clear . |
| 17 | It can also be viewed as combining elements of treaty law with territorial competence : the acceptance of the territory within the previously agreed boundaries incurs acceptance of any conditions that were negotiated at the time of the boundary settlement . |
| 18 | The centres with high U/Pb also have higher average Ce/Pb than most basalts ( Fig. 3 c ) If the U/Pb ratios are representative of their sources and were fractionated at the time of formation of the oceanic lithosphere , this must also be true of the Ce/Pb ratios . |
| 19 | Child deaths were identified at the time of the home visits , and also through a network of about 100 key informants — members of the study community who were asked to record all pregnancies , births , and child deaths in their area . |
| 20 | Sexual relations were prohibited during the time of a woman 's menstruation . |
| 21 | Scotland , compared to England and Wales , has relatively few medieval churches but , precisely because so many were destroyed at the time of the Reformation , Scotland is rich in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ecclesiastical architecture . |
| 22 | We were engaged at the time on a pre-disturbance survey of HMS Hazardous , a man-of-war which sank in November 1706 . |
| 23 | For the Halifax , Britain 's biggest building society , there is no exemption period if the claimant with their policies can prove they were covered during the time of the accident or sickness . |
| 24 | People arrested late in 1991 were beaten at the time of their arrest and tortured and beaten while in detention . |
| 25 | Volunteers from the Gambian village , Brefet , which has hyperendemic malaria , were studied at the time of year with lowest malaria transmission : none had had a recent febrile illness . |
| 26 | This is a much larger proportion than that found among teenage women , where only about 1 in 3 were cohabiting at the time of the birth . |
| 27 | All these items were acquired at the time of their manufacture , as it was museum policy to buy contemporary material . |
| 28 | Gene Miles , who along with Dean Bell , has provided the solidity for Wigan to batter opponents into submission so often this season , explained the significance of the December get-together : ‘ The injuries were clearing at the time of the team meeting and we put everything into winning games around Christmas and New Year . |
| 29 | But in both cases the pre-raid recces were not much help on the night , for Milner-Gibson 's compass failed and the German dispositions on Guernsey were changed by the time of the raid . |
| 30 | Since the livrets were published at the time of the performances , they presumably reflect what the audiences actually heard . |