Example sentences of "was [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Franchises were re-allocated by competition in 1964 , 1967 and 1981 , and although there was each time a public invitation and a grand interview , the procedure involved a good deal of preliminary contact and discussion , not least about such important but apparently secondary factors as studio locations and offices . |
| 2 | He applied four times for permanent posts in Cambridge , but was each time unsuccessful ; it was feared that he would alarm and discourage his pupils , particularly the weaker sort . |
| 3 | Small wonder that there was little time or taste for theorizing about ideal forms of secondary education . |
| 4 | It may seem harsh to criticize the Labour government for its inner-urban Policy at the end of the 1970s — there was little time for the introduction of a comprehensive programme of action towards the cities before the political realities of the 1979 election . |
| 5 | There was little time for dalliance when we came out from Sunday School as I was expected to be home for tea at half-past four . |
| 6 | The pupils all began looking round at each other and Mildred knew there was little time before someone recognized her . |
| 7 | There was little time to stand admiring the view of this or that season when there was a big farm to run and a house and family to be looked after . |
| 8 | There was little time to reflect on the implications as Prince Charles had already asked her to Balmoral for the weekend of the Braemar Games early in September . |
| 9 | It was a miserable moment but there was little time to reflect on the tragedy . |
| 10 | The imperial preference aspect was important because it might arrest the trends pulling the Empire apart ; reciprocity had shown the danger and there was little time left to halt the slide . |
| 11 | There was little time left before his meeting with Merymose , so he did not return to his house , but took a circuitous route which would bring him to their rendezvous at the moment the sun touched the top of the western cliffs . |
| 12 | After the fall of France in June 1940 there was little time to think about the shape of the post-war world . |
| 13 | Over the next few days , as the rush to load the Broompark became more frantic , there was little time for anything except work . |
| 14 | There was little time for thinking as they progressed lower down this new valley . |
| 15 | The essence of his difficulty was that time and change imply that the same thing can have contradictory properties — it can be , say , hot and cold , depending on the time — and this conflicted with the rule that nothing can possess incompatible attributes . |
| 16 | It was that time of year when England began to prepare for the Guy Fawkes celebrations of 5 November . |
| 17 | But there was not a sound : it was that time in the afternoon when Mrs Prynn was down in the village , Sir Gregory and Amyas were at their books , and the ladies in their chambers . |
| 18 | The received military wisdom on prisoners was that time was on the captor 's side . |
| 19 | There was another time I had the same feeling . |
| 20 | ‘ There was another time , in the 2,000 Guineas , when I predicted a horse would win . |
| 21 | The wartime commentator 's jingoistic jangle was this time replaced by a solemn voice , and we were confronted with pictures of moving skeletons , some of them smiling weakly and making slow gestures . |
| 22 | But instead of the usual payload of gravel or iron ore , its hold was this time packed with several thousand colour-coded oil drums . |
| 23 | When Harriet once again saw her daughter off at Penzance station it was this time with a sense of relief . |
| 24 | It formally returned to Japan the sovereignty she had lost in her atomic-bombed defeat , and enabled her to recommence her ambitious ascent towards economic supremacy — a climb which , though frustrated and corrupted before , was this time and at last to culminate in her present astonishing success . |
| 25 | It is something he has contemplated privately before ; the temptation was this time , I suspect , to great to resist . |
| 26 | Going on down er , the profit and loss account , the tax charge er , is lower as a percentage than it was this time last year . |
| 27 | It was some time before Wexford could decide whether it was a man or a woman and when he realised it was a woman he called out a brisk , cheerful good night so that she should not be afraid . |
| 28 | Literally translated , Vogelsang means ‘ bird song ’ , but it was some time before the dawn chorus when the Squadron Sergeant Major bawled out the orders for reveille . |
| 29 | It was some time after making his first confession that he bumped into a pupil in Addison 's Walk . |
| 30 | He did not immediately contemplate any drastic change in his filmmaking aesthetic , since his first Hollywood picture , Rebecca ( 1940 ) , was based on a British book and used British actors , and it was some time before he made a completely American picture . |