Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] the [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was only the fourth time on which the UN had imposed sanctions , the previous occasions being sanctions against Rhodesia , South Africa and Iraq . |
| 2 | It was also the rising time of the women 's liberation movement ( mid-century phase ) and with it an outspoken refusal of conventional fashion . |
| 3 | It was n't the first time in the Church and especially amongst the orthodoxly successful echelons of bishops and archdeacons , that Theodora had met a reluctance to tangle with that eminence grise , Gilbert Racy . |
| 4 | It was n't the right time of my life for concentration , it really was n't . |
| 5 | This was almost the only time during the twentieth century when Dutch rule assumed a relatively progressive face . |