Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | No evidence was found to lead us , including the Judge Advocate General , to think that the convictions were unsound or that the accused were treated unfairly at the time . ’ |
| 2 | Instead , he talked somewhat mystifyingly about not re-writing history , not substituting latter-day judgment for that of contemporaries , and not finding any evidence that the men were treated unfairly at the time . |
| 3 | Humphrey Maud presented his diplomatic credentials to Menem on July 18 , becoming the first United Kingdom ambassador to Argentina since diplomatic relations were broken off at the time of the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands war of 1982 . |
| 4 | Police are particularly anxious to trace a courting couple who were seen nearby at the time of the attack . |
| 5 | Entitled Swizzlewick , it ‘ starred ’ a Mrs Smallgood , a Councillor Salt — the chairman of the NVALA committee was a Birmingham councillor by the name of Pepper — and Ernest the postman , Ernest being the name of Mr Whitehouse and ‘ Postman 's Piece ’ the name of the house they were living in at the time . |
| 6 | So , for many years , the couple made their living as hired help , and were doing so at the time of the film 's success . |