Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if I wrote , ‘ The next day was a Fuesday ’ because I hit the wrong key on the typewriter , they used to leave it in , thinking that was what the kids were saying at the time ! |
| 2 | Doubts were raised at the time about the possible increase in working hours for headteachers in order to operate this system . |
| 3 | The two dimensional images were displayed at the time of acquisition and simultaneously stored into computer hard disc memory by an array processor . |
| 4 | Now I I construe that , the way that 's constructed to mean that er when we 're say that the tide had turned against new settlements , as some districts were doing at the time this came out . |
| 5 | Blood samples of the fasted state of the rats were taken at the time when the animals were killed for measurement of gastrin and CCK in plasma and were collected in EDTA tubes from the internal jugular vein . |
| 6 | Before the sustained economic recession of the inter-war years it was thought that the economy automatically moved towards full employment , even though periodic booms and slumps were experienced at the time . |
| 7 | However , this was not how matters were understood at the time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But though composed in ignorance of rival works , many of these writings were seen at the time , naturally and unhesitatingly , as the product of a single mood and of a single set of mind . |
| 10 | The findings can be compared with the way in which policy actions were described at the time , and one sub- period can be compared with another . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | All these items were acquired at the time of their manufacture , as it was museum policy to buy contemporary material . |
| 13 | Thorndyke took pictures of what the cats were doing at the time they escaped . |
| 14 | Patients were randomised at the time of endoscopy or within 12 hours after fulfilling the inclusion criteria . |
| 15 | These arms were commissioned at the time for a New Bond Street warehouse at a cost of 20 guineas . |
| 16 | Since the livrets were published at the time of the performances , they presumably reflect what the audiences actually heard . |
| 17 | But we also , I think , all took the view , because that was what all the signs were showing at the time , that the crunch would come later than it did , and I think that was the perceived view of anybody working in Whitehall at that stage . |
| 18 | It was what the Americans would call a ‘ company town ’ , and is worth seeing as an example of what enlightened employers were doing at the time . |
| 19 | Is he aware that only last week there was another incident of water pollution where a known carcinogen , formaldehyde , was tipped into the river and only fortuitously the company 's intakes were closed at the time ? |
| 20 | This is a collection of strange bedfellows , but is an interesting reflection of the high esteem in which artists were held at the time . |
| 21 | Although they might have been relatively cheap to build they were expensive to maintain , a point that some experts were putting at the time . |
| 22 | All strictures were dilated at the time of diagnosis ( and before pH monitoring when found at presentation ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A total of 478 students were arrested at the time and held for several days . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The Cistercians were the papacy 's missionary storm-troops of the twelfth to thirteenth century as the Jesuits were to become at the time of the counter-Reformation . |
| 28 | It was well endowed with ‘ footpads ’ , which is what muggers and thieves were called at the time . |
| 29 | ‘ I got my chemistry degree and like everybody else I applied for whatever jobs were going at the time . |