Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [art] [adj] time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the modern age , institutions outside the family have been created to administer public affairs and women were for a long time expressly excluded . |
| 2 | What White and Bernard also omit to make clear is that , while the great majority of the ordinary members of the church may well have been largely indifferent to theological issues , many of them were at the same time both outraged and alarmed by a number of alien liturgical practices , which were a unique and highly visible feature of English Arminianism . |
| 3 | In Maxwell , the streams of particle and wave physics had begun to converge , with results that were to be disquieting ; but optics and the structure of matter were at the same time fruitfully interacting . |
| 4 | Heads of department acquired heavier responsibilities , but were at the same time often grouped in wider partnerships — often known , somewhat grandly , as faculties — to encourage more interdisciplinary work and greater flexibility in the use of resources . |
| 5 | The mainstream of early French political socialism was for a long time essentially petit bourgeois , in its absence of rapprochement with trade unions , in its party organizational form , and in the social background of its parliamentarians and membership . |
| 6 | This was for a short time only ; I had suffered a significant loss , but not a life-threatening or total one . |
| 7 | This poor soul , pallid and puffy on his bed after desperate vomiting , sick and quiet and unregarded ever since , spent and ulcered mind and spirit by what he had so mistakenly undertaken , Jerome was for the first time wholly pitiful . |
| 8 | In 1989 the global nature of the drift-net plague was for the first time widely recognised . |
| 9 | Lawrence Stone has put forward a highly influential argument that the eighteenth century saw the rise of the companionate marriage , and that affection between husband and wife was for the first time widely judged as important as economic considerations in marriage This argument has been widely challenged in relation to all classes by historians examining various kinds of evidence from the seventeenth century and earlier The belief that affection as an ideal of marriage was basically invented by the middle and upper classes in the eighteenth century has , however , led some critics into simplistic views . |
| 10 | Still , the need for a specific and general science of society ( as distinct from the various relevant special disciplines already dealing with human affairs ) was for the first time seriously felt . |
| 11 | ‘ I told you , that was over a long time ago . ’ |
| 12 | But when I actually erm got into the social work side of it , and i saw what the needs there were , erm and it was at the particular time too when you know , lots of teachers were sort of being made redundant , or at at least the er the numbers in schools were n't so high . |
| 13 | He was at the same time very simple and very noble . |
| 14 | It was directed at an audience to which a man of lesser wit and native grace might have been tempted to talk down ( it has to be remembered that by this time Boulestin and his restaurant had already become almost legendary ) but this was a trap into which he was at the same time too subtle and too naturally courteous to fall . |
| 15 | In short , the office of collector of supply was at the same time highly desirable and extremely dangerous to political interests . |