Example sentences of "was not [verb] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their house was not searched at the time of the dawn raid ; they were not driven away to a police station for questioning . |
| 2 | The resignation of Richardson , then Minister of Justice and National Security , tendered on Sept. 18 for failing to prevent the attempted coup and the ensuing looting , was not accepted at the time by the Prime Minister , with whom Richardson had been held hostage during the crisis . |
| 3 | Most of these are presumably extragalactic but they include the pulsar PSR1706–44 , although this was not recognized at the time . |
| 4 | The defendant had moved a few weeks before to another address in the same town , but this fact was not discovered at the time . |
| 5 | Artemidorus of Daldis was not born at the time . |
| 6 | The TVOR was not installed at the time of the accident . |
| 7 | John Ferrar 's Life of Nicholas was not published at the time when it was written and the manuscript disappeared until 1790 . |
| 8 | Although the first part of the Pilgrim 's Progress was written during this period of imprisonment , it was not published at the time . |
| 9 | Kathleen Kenyon 's notable effort was not wholly successful for two reasons : firstly , it was not appreciated at the time that there was only one major construction phase and not two ; secondly , the knowledge of pottery dating was then inadequate . |
| 10 | Although it was not appreciated at the time when the Japanese swept away the administration , the power and the remaining claims to sovereignty of the French in Indochina , the Second World War in Asia had entered its final six months . |
| 11 | She did not regularly use tampons and was not menstruating at the time of admission . |
| 12 | The regulations against which the Opposition are praying concern backdated entitlement to benefit where there has been official Department of Social Security error or where relevant evidence was not known at the time of the original DSS decision . |
| 13 | But due to other commitments and the very constricted nature of the passage , it was not pursued at the time . |
| 14 | The Airtours document asks why a £6.5 million contingent liability was not disclosed at the time Owners unveiled its preliminary results , and draws attention to its rival 's low distributable reserves as a possible reason . |