Example sentences of "was [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He still felt naked and drained after the speech , yet now was the time to be weaving more individuals firmly into thy spreading fabric . |
| 2 | But , and this is Libet 's error , what the subject was actually comparing was the time at which two experiences were occurring . |
| 3 | It was the time of the Miners Strike ; just afterwards . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was the time of their lives when they found it hardest to make ends meet . |
| 8 | It was the time of progressive rock . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Now was the time to do it . |
| 11 | Surely here , if anywhere , was the time and place to sacrifice some profit . |
| 12 | This was the time when the old style of gabled manor was feeling the first breath of classical ideas . |
| 13 | Then there was the time Vic and company decided to detonate a smorgasbord of Spam and boiled sweets . |
| 14 | She felt very strongly that now was the time to start a new phase , when at last her life would be her own . |
| 15 | This was the time of day he went to Mr Hyde 's farm to fetch the milk . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The breakthrough had been made but now was the time to confirm her arrival as a major talent . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This was the time when the lone and often despairing voice of dissent was heard from the terraces . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | June was the time for ‘ inoculation ’ ( budding ) and the best stocks to use were Frankfurt and Damask roses , these being the ‘ freest shooters ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Rumour was rife in 1588 and this was the time , armed with the deathbed testimony of Mrs Barnes , and the cutting taken from the drapes of Littlecote ( incidentally , the cutting was found to fit the curtains which were sold many years later as a memento to an American ) , that the lawyers , probably headed by Anthony Brooks , tried to charge Darrel in court . |
| 28 | A major problem for those wishing to persuade Mrs Thatcher to change her mind was the time constraint imposed by the leadership election rules . |
| 29 | And if ever I thought it , that was the time that I thought that Mother knew what she was singing about . |
| 30 | This was the time at which Harington was still grappling with the improved purification of thyroxine ( see Chapter 5 ) . |