Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [to-vb] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , however , a very special kind of autobiography , and may be compared to the accounts of their own lives which the early Methodists were expected to write at the time of their reception into the church : in such spiritual autobiographies divine visitations were singled out for special mention as evidences of God 's grace and power ; they were contrasted with laments over sinful behaviour and backsliding , and led to the culminating moment of conversion . |
| 2 | This is something we said we were going to discuss at a time in the future and I thought I 'd stick it on and see how much time we 'd got left . |
| 3 | Rumours were beginning to circulate at the time , concerning Robert Dudley and Her Sovereign Majesty , Elizabeth 1 . |
| 4 | And I think it was , we were willing to go back to work and carry on discussions , albeit without earning any bonus because we were working to rule at the time , but it was what happened in er the quarry that really started the strike , when he laid the workforce off because they were helping us , or joining us in sympathetic action , you know there was a lockout up there , so I think that speeded up things considerably . |
| 5 | Heron shows in his article a deep sympathy with Braque 's work , which , incidentally , was a sort of painting he himself was seeking to practise at the time . |
| 6 | In other words , only one gene was allowed to mutate at a time , and that gene was allowed to change its " value " only by +1 or -1 . |