Example sentences of "were [adv] [adj] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he put it : " We were rather cross at the time that all the torches back on the shore spoilt our chances of photographing the moon . " |
| 2 | Well since nineteen forty-five , in the Federal Republic of Germany , there is very little difference essentially between the educational system erm there and the educational system in this country , for very obvious reasons , I think the western Allies simply imposed their values , their educational systems among other things , on the West Germans , who were rather reluctant at the time to accept it , but have grown to love those values and arguably are now as good if not better at preserving them than we are . |
| 3 | ‘ And you were only 18 at the time as opposed to being a grown man . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And you were only 18 at the time as opposed to being a grown man . ’ |
| 5 | Maidstone is one of a number of designated prisons able to take ‘ lifers ’ and it can provide up to 100 places for them , although there were only 80 at the time of my visit . |
| 6 | They are more illuminating than compelling ; they show the operatic paraphrase in the hands of one of its most experienced practitioners , using as their basis music that will often have been more familiar to the listeners of its day than they now are to us ( there are some obvious exceptions on this CD ) ; and one can see why they were so successful at the time , even if they now seem slightly shallow set alongside the giants that selective history has chosen to remember . |
| 7 | Sometimes I wonder if one really knew they were so desolate at the time . ’ |
| 8 | This was part of Fender 's problem , of course , and the 30″ scale length strings were so unusual at the time as to cause major headaches in manufacture . |
| 9 | Had it been severable , i.e. if it had been the sale of separate lots to be separately paid for , then presumably the contract would have been void only as to those lots which were not complete at the time of the contract . |
| 10 | The Socialists reply that the actions in question were not illegal at the time ( the law on party financing came in later ) . |
| 11 | He found that the circumstances which had arisen were not foreseeable at the time of the contract but he still decided to take into account supervening events : this made the contract unenforceable and unreasonable . |
| 12 | The discussion presented has the benefit of hindsight : although each idea appears obvious and in an obvious sequence , most were not obvious at the time they were discovered , the steps were not considered in this order and the overall result does not seem obvious even now . |
| 13 | The Burgundians , however , were already Christian at the time of Syagrius 's involvement in their legislation . |
| 14 | But if she were still alive at the time of his second marriage , nearly twenty years later , then it was bigamous . ’ |
| 15 | But editors who refuse to retract damaging comments after clear proof that they are wildly exaggerated may lay themselves open to the inference from this conduct that they were similarly reckless at the time of the original publication . |
| 16 | It was held that there was no duty of care on landlords to ensure that premises were reasonably safe at the time of the letting . |
| 17 | Some of the officers concerned were also unsure at the time that such courses had been sufficiently thought through . |
| 18 | involved discussions in all sorts of disciplines ( within the professional body , with the educational institutions and within the CNAA itself , many of which were decidedly uncomfortable at the time ) . |
| 19 | During the sociable sorting period , some of us reflected that others were probably alone at the time , in their kitchens , baking for Christian Aid . |
| 20 | Limits were set in short by both sides on what they sought to do and how they sought to do it and these limits erm were n't self-evident at the time I can tell you because the American military , the Chiefs of Staff on the Executive Committee that discussed this an and took the decisions , were all in favour of making s air strikes on these bases and possibly er an er an armed intervention and so the military advice here er was er was rather similar to that of McArthur 's , that is turn the , the crisis into er a different kind of crisis , turn it in fact into a war . |
| 21 | Limits were set in short by both sides on what they sought to do and how they sought to do it and these limits erm were n't self-evident at the time I can tell you because the American military , the Chiefs of Staff on the Executive Committee that discussed this an and took the decisions , were all in favour of making s air strikes on these bases and possibly er an er an armed intervention and so the military advice here er was er was rather similar to that of McArthur 's , that is turn the , the crisis into er a different kind of crisis , turn it in fact into a war . |
| 22 | there is one there now , but we were n't able at the time , no |
| 23 | On a note of caution , it should be pointed out that the people involved in minor marriages were considerably younger at the time of the formalization of the marriage than those involved in the major marriages . |
| 24 | Her poems , of which the best known was ‘ The Blind Ploughman ’ , were very popular at the time , and many of them were set to music and performed at public concerts all over Britain . |
| 25 | They showed there was a limit to what people could tolerate and were very important at the time . ’ |