Example sentences of "[pron] be [vb pp] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was drunk at the time , if you must know . |
| 2 | Imagination from other viewpoints depends on my having already perceived something analogous from the then present and my own , and is undernourished if I was distracted at the time by consideration of the future or of others . |
| 3 | I was told at the time that this system had been adopted because it was impossible to fit a mechanical servo as fitted to the Series III without major surgery , |
| 4 | The crimps were of course very active and I was told at the time that they would be paid as much as two pounds for every man whom they recruited . |
| 5 | the communism , the Kuomintang which are united at the time , and obviously the , the Kuomintang putting forward the idea of a restoration |
| 6 | Supporting evidence is also taken from data collected by a survey of libraries in the UK carried out by CRUS ( The Centre for Research on User Studies ) , during the early part of 1984 , which included a series of questions concerning training , not all of which were analysed at the time ( see Appendix 1 ) . |
| 7 | Usually it 's D W Griffith of America who 's given credit for the intelligent use of the close-up erm but Smith was immensely interested in the portraiture area of photography , and made a series of films which were called at the time ‘ facials ’ . |
| 8 | All the intriguing questions which were asked at the time , not least as to why she contributed , either deliberately or through naivety , to it becoming one of the sporting mysteries of the year in the first place , will have to remain unanswered . |
| 9 | In the accounts of British politics which were published at the time , ministerial responsibility was seen as the key and essential principle of the whole system . |
| 10 | But nevertheless it 's im important to remember that this is a survey erm which is conducted at the time of year when most compan or many companies raise their list prices and if one looks at the past sort of record of this survey both at the regional level and the national level , one generally does see a bit of an upturn in the pr in the prices numbers at this time of year because people are raising their list prices erm and once you allow for that erm I think these numbers are er very good in terms of prices trends , very low for the time of year . |
| 11 | That is a duty which he owes to all those who may have occasion to use the article : and it is a duty which is broken at the time when he is negligent in making the article . |
| 12 | The only aspect of the contract that can vary is the price at which the exchange is made , which is determined at the time of the transaction . |
| 13 | In addition a bonus , which is guaranteed at the time the account is opened , will be paid on maturity . |
| 14 | It was one of those very profound observations which was misunderstood at the time but is now widely accepted by Roman Catholic scholars among others . |
| 15 | He had been employed in the 1960s by the firm , which was known at the time as Maranite Ltd , when asbestos fibre was used to make boards for doors for the shipbuilding industry . |
| 16 | If you were separated at the time , you are still treated as a dependant . |
| 17 | You were told at the time you did , and Councillor told you at the time that th it was totally inadequate was the children 's budget , so how can you expect more money from the Government when your sense of priorities is so blatantly wrong on the money that you 're already handling . |
| 18 | The details of Julian 's life are not known , but it is highly unlikely that she was professed at the time of her visionary experience — if at all . |
| 19 | I sincerely hope that Mrs. X 's complaint was not treated in a dismissive way because , as she readily admitted , she was drunk at the time of the assault . |
| 20 | Murray , who was employed at the time as the works manager at the premises in Broadfold Road , Bridge of Don , has denied a total of 13 charges , including four allegations that he assaulted a number of men on various occasions by injecting them with either heroin or Temgesic . |
| 21 | We were engaged at the time on a pre-disturbance survey of HMS Hazardous , a man-of-war which sank in November 1706 . |
| 22 | We were separated at the time — the woman in the photographs is Phoebe . |
| 23 | Quite why we were undressed at the time is a mystery , though I do recall your mother being uncharacteristically excitable and an unseemly display of mirth by the ambulance men . |
| 24 | There were no immediate changes , it went on from private enterprise , the changeover We were told at the time that we were just just to carry on the way we 'd been doing . |
| 25 | But spending that hundred thousand pounds as we were told at the time , would only part solve the problem . |
| 26 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The difference is hard to explain as there was no difference between the two groups in terms of whether or not they were employed at the time they enquired about the courses . |
| 29 | The idea that there is some correct and timeless view , against which historical controversies can be judged , can prove an insensitive guide to the issues as they were perceived at the time . |
| 30 | Only 1 man in 5 had planned the occasion , for 17% it was a one-night stand , for 13% it happened at a party , while 11% say they were drunk at the time . |