Example sentences of "was [vb pp] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet Anselm decided against him , and his decision , as was recognized at the time , turned the scale in Henry 's favour . |
| 2 | When a Russian loan was over-subscribed in Paris in the following December , a bigger change was implied than was recognized at the time . |
| 3 | 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 ] . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was pressed at the time when Red Rhino were having their well documented financial troubles . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was reported at the time that Yorkshire secretary J.H. Nash considered Fiddling inconsistent , although capable of brilliance . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | David Robson QC , defending , said Lee was a ‘ decent , caring , sensitive ’ girl whose mind was disturbed at the time . |
| 19 | The details of Julian 's life are not known , but it is highly unlikely that she was professed at the time of her visionary experience — if at all . |
| 20 | I ask whether the legacy is only of what was owed at the time the will was made or if later increases in that sum by way of interest are also included . |
| 21 | It was felt at the time that the upward movement was out of line with the underlying trend and the latest figures analysed by Reward suggest it has in fact been short-lived . |
| 22 | It was felt at the time that regional disparities would inhibit commitment by member states to such integration . |
| 23 | This , in turn , was part of what was seen at the time as the natural extension of scientific and technological principles from their successful application to the material and animal world to apply to human beings themselves . |
| 24 | One Russian paper , described as ‘ highly conservative ’ , contained a piece , some of which , it was said at the time , was barely capable of being rendered into printable English . |
| 25 | A lot was said at the time . |
| 26 | If you later disagree with the company about what was said at the time , having your own record could prove invaluable . |
| 27 | On the latter point , the hon. Gentleman is well aware of what was said at the time of the Barlow Clowes affair , following an investigation by the ombudsman into what was seen to be a unique set of circumstances . |
| 28 | When the requirement was originally written erm and agreed in nineteen eighty seven all of the nations decided that erm we required a short take off and landing capability and that was based on the sort of the then cold war situation where the prospects of runways and airfields being very severely damaged in a sort of central European type of scenario , and therefore the possibility that there might be only very small operating strips available from those runways and that was the basis for the particular length that was decided at the time . |
| 29 | It was one of those very profound observations which was misunderstood at the time but is now widely accepted by Roman Catholic scholars among others . |
| 30 | In 1958 , Reginald Bassett lamented the fact ‘ that no study of the General Election of 1931 was made at the time on the lines of the extremely useful studies of the 1945 and subsequent General Elections sponsored by Nuffield College ’ . |