Example sentences of "was [verb] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We passed Cap Bon ( in the distance ) and Pantelleria , the latter at sea level — which was just as well as it was raining at the time , otherwise we might have missed it and also because we were told afterwards that there was an airfield there with Bf110s . |
| 2 | It was raining at the time . |
| 3 | Yet Anselm decided against him , and his decision , as was recognized at the time , turned the scale in Henry 's favour . |
| 4 | When a Russian loan was over-subscribed in Paris in the following December , a bigger change was implied than was recognized at the time . |
| 5 | English Nature , the government 's official watchdog on nature conservation , was criticized at the time by environmental groups for entering into the deal with Fisons , and for allowing extraction of peat on a site of special scientific interest [ see ED 57 ] . |
| 6 | The objective defined in 1858 was to enable ‘ persons requiring medical aid … to distinguish qualified from unqualified practitioners ’ and we need only read some early issues of the Lancet to learn that the medical register was regarded at the time as a list of doctors who set themselves higher standards than the multitude of quacks who then preyed on the sick . |
| 7 | Mind you , I was pretty out of order at some of his famous parties , out-drinking George Brown and all those Labour ministers that he was courting at the time . ’ |
| 8 | It was pressed at the time when Red Rhino were having their well documented financial troubles . |
| 9 | Well forgive me , the , the reason for that is , it was explained at the time if one 's going to defend the decision of where you 're going to put your roads , then you 've got in reality look at all them options ridiculous some they will be , whether they dig tunnels under the Orwell or knocking down Wordsworth Road I mean it 's all got to be looked at . |
| 10 | Indirect Rule was not , as was claimed at the time , just a pragmatic response to circumstances , or a way of breaking the natives in gently to the rigours of civilized living . |
| 11 | On the 22nd Gracey 's forces assisted the French in what , despite what was claimed at the time and subsequently , was an almost bloodless coup by which they occupied the Town Hall and other central points ; and two nights after that about a hundred and fifty French civilians , including many women and children , were massacred by Vietnamese who burst into the Cite Heraud district past indifferent Japanese guards . |
| 12 | Built of brick in 1764 , the rectory was whitewashed at the time , in order to match the small church of St Peter standing beside , also white-washed to enliven its poor-looking rubble walls . |
| 13 | It was reported at the time that ten or more navvies met their death fighting and falling from scaffolding as this tunnel is unusually high and was built to accommodate double tracks . |
| 14 | The US Semiconductor Industry Association 's book-to-bill ratio for March fell to 1.17 from the revised 1.19 figure for February — a figure of 1.18 was reported at the time . |
| 15 | It was reported at the time that Yorkshire secretary J.H. Nash considered Fiddling inconsistent , although capable of brilliance . |
| 16 | Leyland 's own collection of oriental porcelain was dispersed at the time of his death and , apart from ten or so pieces , the shelves had remained empty until now . |
| 17 | In my experience , the only occasions when I have stalled unexpectedly and known what was happening at the time , have been in very fierce stubble fires and dust devils . |
| 18 | We did n't know what was happening at the time , we thought he was choking . |
| 19 | Another form of argument to be considered involves analysis of what else was happening at the time a text was written and first published . |
| 20 | She she has to make out a form , with erm what was happening at the time and everything . |
| 21 | So it seemed to us that the the general sense and purpose of the policy was was not in a sense disputed but that er in order to avoid a leng what was considered at the time to be perhaps unnecessary detail and going into erm too much detail that er we felt that the agricultural land policies could be left to perform the sort of main objective that we were seeking through , I think it was E three at the time , was was the proposed policy . |
| 22 | Because of the recession the public sector borrowing requirement ( PSBR ) will be high , and a figure of £28bn for 1992/93 was forecast at the time of the Budget in March . |
| 23 | Circumstantial evidence could take the form of showing the defendant wished to cover up an offence committed by himself , such as driving over the prescribed limit , being involved in an accident and then , as mentioned ( C ) 2 ante alleging that someone else was driving at the time of the accident . |
| 24 | Ife , a city to the west of the River Niger and , according to Yoruba tradition , the centre where the world was created , was occupied at the time of Igbo Ukwu . |
| 25 | When Tommy was interviewed at the time , he made it clear that he was a man with his sights firmly set on the future , and so it is no surprise that in 1991 , Tommy Rodgers is again setting new standards . |
| 26 | You see , she was wandering at the time . ’ |
| 27 | So I drove up to Illinois , where Ray was living at the time , and got him to build me one . |
| 28 | The supporting cast was made up of Sylvia Miles , Brenda Vaccaro , John McGiver , Barnard Hughes ( film debut ) , Ruth White and Jennifer Salt ( the screenwriter 's 25-year-old daughter with whom the divorced Voight was living at the time ) . |
| 29 | At the Ryecroft bail hostel in Gloucester , where Hagans was living at the time , another witness said Hagans had tried to sell him a wedding ring for ten pounds , and was wearing a gold chain necklace . |
| 30 | Caron wrote it in the aftermath of the '92 riots in LA where she was living at the time . |