Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She suffered dreadfully from hay fever , and many were the times — such as when we picnicked on Ivinghoe Beacon — she would have benefited from emulating Alan Turing who was said to cycle to work wearing an army gas-mask to protect himself from the pollen . |
| 2 | And many were the times when she had wanted to bawl at him , ‘ And who was to blame for that ? |
| 3 | Such were the times , and what was more I was a man with a foreign passport and working in an embassy , and that made it much harder for me to collect . |
| 4 | I do think that the struggle for national liberation , certainly in my country at the times when we were most successful in that struggle , were the times when more opportunities were opened up for my own liberation and my own freedom of choice as a woman . |
| 5 | They added that dawn and dusk were the times sharks were especially likely to attack . |
| 6 | Many were the times when he had his knuckles rapped sharply for meddling in politics or foreign policy . |
| 7 | In radionuclide transite the calculated indices were the time when 5% and 90% of the radionuclide dose appeared in the stomach , emptying time of the distal oesophageal third to 25% activity value , mean transit time , and residual activity in the distal fluid . |
| 8 | Douglas Jay observed that the later 1970s were a time of genuine recovery — ‘ one of the few examples of any Western governments in the seventies reducing both inflationary pressures and unemployment ’ at one and the same time . |
| 9 | Looking back at those debates on how we could fill in the time on our hands , the novelist Herbert Gold reflected that the Fifties were a time of ‘ happy people with happy problems ’ . |
| 10 | But the sixties were a time for breaking rules , transgressing limits . |
| 11 | Quiet , steady and composed , Gavin was an ideal partner for skipper Jim Cannon at the heart of the Palace defence and , if the early '80s were a time when our back four was often under a lot of pressure , Gavin played his part in Palace 's revival at the end of the decade although , in spite of skippering our successful 1988–89 side for a few matches mid-season , he incurred yet another injury and was prevented from playing in all but the final three games . |
| 12 | If the 1920s were a time of depression , the 1930s were not that much better , and morale amongst deaf people was still at an all-time low . |
| 13 | Their first years together were a time of grinding poverty . |
| 14 | The early and mid-seventies were a time of ‘ no warning ’ bombs and sectarian killings were escalating . |
| 15 | If there were a time clock for murder , it would show one every twenty-six minutes . |
| 16 | He was bearing the cold and damp better than he had in the previous year , but these winter months were a time when proper life had to give way to the struggle merely to exist . |
| 17 | The early 1870s were a time of prosperity for the trade , and the ETS felt sufficiently confident to present a memorial to the employers in 1871 asking for a further reduction to fifty-one hours . |
| 18 | Until comparatively recently there was a general belief or tacit agreement within the community that the later years of life were a time of " all passion spent " — that sex stopped or should stop with the menopause in women and that it continued into later years only in old men who were awarded the epithet " dirty " . |
| 19 | It can not be entirely coincidental that these years were a time of important new developments in both the Church and the Mercian kingdom . |
| 20 | As a time of transition from autarchy and isolation to developmentalist capitalism and international rapprochement , the 1950s in Spain were a time of ambiguity and uncertainty , in which the first signs of a limited degree of liberalism became visible at the same time as the use of the customary repression made it clear that nothing fundamental had changed . |
| 21 | The seventy-five years preceding 1066 were a time of great activity in the Canterbury scriptorium , which produced a number of magnificently-illustrated gospel and service-books , as well as many more mundane volumes apparently intended to form a new cathedral library . |
| 22 | The 1930s were a time of religious upheaval on the sub continent and Corporal Selwyn and his fellow Glosters were put on riot control duties in India and Burma . |
| 23 | Because of paper rationing it had only four to eight pages , unless it was The Times , which averaged nine . |
| 24 | ‘ Gorbachev sends troops to Georgia ’ was The Times headline that day and the hotel manager greeted us with news that one of the two helicopters had crashed last Friday , leaving three people in hospital . |
| 25 | I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ? |
| 26 | I mean at one time it was the Times Literary Supplement or something with an Oxford box around it . |
| 27 | He still felt naked and drained after the speech , yet now was the time to be weaving more individuals firmly into thy spreading fabric . |
| 28 | But , and this is Libet 's error , what the subject was actually comparing was the time at which two experiences were occurring . |
| 29 | It was the time of the Miners Strike ; just afterwards . |
| 30 | Graham Sutherland , opposite a whole page of contacts , enthuses in a 1946 letter : ‘ Your photographs are wonderfully good ; easily the best we have ever had taken , and I can see how important was the time and care which you took over the composition and lighting and the idea … |