Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We excluded 12 patients because no definite diagnosis of ulcerative colitis or Crohn 's disease could be made at the time of testing . |
| 2 | Sotheby 's then heard from Michael Hebecker , Director of Schlossmuseum Gotha , informing them that , while the auction house had behaved fairly and correctly in offering the picture to the museum first , the permission to sell the Wtewael had been granted in his absence and with neither his knowledge nor consent , and asking them if the picture could be withdrawn for the time being . |
| 3 | This period could be regarded as the time when our service began to emerge from a kind of amateur status to that of a more professional one . |
| 4 | In studying a period and a phase in which what could be proved at the time to be shadows were so determinedly pursued , is he after all studying not an aberration , not a deviation from the normal , but the common behaviour of mankind ? |
| 5 | Students of cancer had more reason to be interested in chromatin and its role in cell division , but chemical approaches to cancer were predominantly concerned with molecules which could be identified at the time , i.e. with molecular weights under 1000 . |