Example sentences of "was [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of paper rationing it had only four to eight pages , unless it was The Times , which averaged nine . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | I mean at one time it was the Times Literary Supplement or something with an Oxford box around it . |
| 5 | He still felt naked and drained after the speech , yet now was the time to be weaving more individuals firmly into thy spreading fabric . |
| 6 | But , and this is Libet 's error , what the subject was actually comparing was the time at which two experiences were occurring . |
| 7 | It was the time of the Miners Strike ; just afterwards . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | After Fisher died Ramsey said that the time in their lives when they were closest in friendship was the time when he was examining chaplain to the Bishop of Chester . |
| 10 | It was the time of the Baedeker raids , when German bombers struck cathedral towns , and some of the guests who stayed in York the night before had sleepless hours . |
| 11 | It was the time of their lives when they found it hardest to make ends meet . |
| 12 | It was the time of progressive rock . |
| 13 | Cockney Rebel had it a bit , and it was the time of the film Cabaret , The Rocky Horror Show and Biba 's nightclub on the roof of what used to be Derry and Toms Every other phrase in the newspapers seemed to be ‘ Iounge lizard ’ . |
| 14 | Now was the time to do it . |
| 15 | Surely here , if anywhere , was the time and place to sacrifice some profit . |
| 16 | This was the time when the old style of gabled manor was feeling the first breath of classical ideas . |
| 17 | Then there was the time Vic and company decided to detonate a smorgasbord of Spam and boiled sweets . |
| 18 | She felt very strongly that now was the time to start a new phase , when at last her life would be her own . |
| 19 | This was the time of day he went to Mr Hyde 's farm to fetch the milk . |
| 20 | There was the time we were getting off a crowded coach on a day trip to Brighton and he pushed me back into my seat . |
| 21 | Adaptation to Roman society and culture ; doctrinal self-definition , and organizational solidification : the century and a half after Constantine 's conversion was all this ; but more than anything else , it was the time in which Christians learnt to live in the new conditions of their existence . |
| 22 | The breakthrough had been made but now was the time to confirm her arrival as a major talent . |
| 23 | Semenyaka is an honoured People 's Artist , but she agrees : ‘ Our heyday was the time of Diaghilev , Nijinsky and Karsavina , and the fact that they inspired Fokine and Balanchine . |
| 24 | This was the time when the lone and often despairing voice of dissent was heard from the terraces . |
| 25 | That was the time when there was a clamour to release the dogs of war and to send out Mrs Thatcher with a fully-loaded handbag . |
| 26 | Summer was the time when the town dwellers flocked to the countryside for their holidays and in winter the many ski activities ensured a constant demand for living quarters . |
| 27 | June was the time for ‘ inoculation ’ ( budding ) and the best stocks to use were Frankfurt and Damask roses , these being the ‘ freest shooters ’ . |
| 28 | Work at B.P. went on twenty-four hours a day , in three shifts : 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. , 4 p.m. to midnight , and midnight to 9 a.m. , and added to this was the time spent in travelling to and from our billets some twenty miles away , which usually took just over an hour . |
| 29 | First , the period until 1830 was the time of the early travellers ; second , from 1830 until 1930 was the period of early botanists and naturalists ; third , 1930 until 1980 was the period of the first ecological studies and also of Professor J. W. Heslop Harrison and Miss M. S. Campbell ; and finally the 1980s , the period of the Integrated Development Programme ( 1982–1987 ) , which gave rise to more intensive research . |
| 30 | Although Reagan 's knowledge of foreign affairs was non-existent , to the point where if he was not prompted he often had no idea which country he was talking about , he needed little convincing by the American intelligence agencies that now was the time for America to start waging a secret war against its enemies . |