Example sentences of "were [verb] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are mentioned by name on eighteenth-century maps and referred to in Sir Walter Scott 's The Bridal of Triermain ; they are often supposed to mark the county boundary , which they do not , and the most popular theory is that they were erected at the time of the Border raids to delude Scots advancing up the Eden valley , from which they are conspicuously in view , into the belief that an English army was encamped there . |
| 2 | All hotels and guest houses in this brochure were registered at the time of going to press . |
| 3 | All strictures were dilated at the time of diagnosis ( and before pH monitoring when found at presentation ) . |
| 4 | There were mediaeval chroniclers , working from monasteries and sometimes from the courts , and those chroniclers were producing history which was an attempt as it were to set down what seemed to them to be the most important things that were happening at the time , with a few asides . |
| 5 | But though composed in ignorance of rival works , many of these writings were seen at the time , naturally and unhesitatingly , as the product of a single mood and of a single set of mind . |
| 6 | There were the other things that were written at the time — there are at least 15 cues . ’ |
| 7 | If you were separated at the time , you are still treated as a dependant . |
| 8 | We were separated at the time — the woman in the photographs is Phoebe . |
| 9 | in Reid in response to counsel 's submission that a husband could only be guilty of kidnapping his wife if they were separated at the time . |
| 10 | You were looking at the time , but it did n't come up , I mean . |
| 11 | But that was in Lincolnshire , where we were living at the time . |
| 12 | These applications were vetoed at the time by de Gaulle and his allies , and this veto was upheld in 1967 at the time of their second application . |
| 13 | Is he aware that only last week there was another incident of water pollution where a known carcinogen , formaldehyde , was tipped into the river and only fortuitously the company 's intakes were closed at the time ? |
| 14 | All were used at the time of the Edgar " Ordo " . |
| 15 | These arms were commissioned at the time for a New Bond Street warehouse at a cost of 20 guineas . |
| 16 | You were told at the time you did , and Councillor told you at the time that th it was totally inadequate was the children 's budget , so how can you expect more money from the Government when your sense of priorities is so blatantly wrong on the money that you 're already handling . |
| 17 | There were no immediate changes , it went on from private enterprise , the changeover We were told at the time that we were just just to carry on the way we 'd been doing . |
| 18 | But spending that hundred thousand pounds as we were told at the time , would only part solve the problem . |
| 19 | ‘ I got my chemistry degree and like everybody else I applied for whatever jobs were going at the time . |
| 20 | In those days there was n't a great deal of of mining , I mean was n't open , and er there was a tremendous amount , well there 's a fair amount of of traffic agricultural traffic , and I mean one had to accept that virtually everything came in , all coal , road stone , erm goods required er for well 's who were going at the time , they er they used the railway . |
| 21 | However , this was not how matters were understood at the time . |
| 22 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |
| 23 | The two dimensional images were displayed at the time of acquisition and simultaneously stored into computer hard disc memory by an array processor . |
| 24 | Various other objections to the Nestlé takeover of Rowntree were raised at the time . |
| 25 | Doubts were raised at the time about the possible increase in working hours for headteachers in order to operate this system . |
| 26 | It was well endowed with ‘ footpads ’ , which is what muggers and thieves were called at the time . |
| 27 | Usually it 's D W Griffith of America who 's given credit for the intelligent use of the close-up erm but Smith was immensely interested in the portraiture area of photography , and made a series of films which were called at the time ‘ facials ’ . |
| 28 | Only six ( 9 per cent ) of the network sample were employed at the time of interview while 58 ( 91 per cent ) were unemployed . |
| 29 | The difference is hard to explain as there was no difference between the two groups in terms of whether or not they were employed at the time they enquired about the courses . |
| 30 | So if I wrote , ‘ The next day was a Fuesday ’ because I hit the wrong key on the typewriter , they used to leave it in , thinking that was what the kids were saying at the time ! |