Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] was [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I denied being ill and scorned to make the demands for attention usually employed by invalids or malingerers , there is no doubt that I was by this time making a bid for power . |
| 2 | Assessment of capital very much influenced that , and it was ‘ of the highest importance ’ that it was at all times a proper influence . |
| 3 | As one example , we know that it was at this time that he took the opportunity to fill the vacant see of York since the canons were present and thus he could postulate and consecrate Walter Gray . |
| 4 | There are some indications that it was about this time that she began to fall in love with Richard Baxter . |
| 5 | Their date is unsure , perhaps around the mid sixth century , and it seems likely that it was near that time that Greek sculptors did learn to hollow-cast bronze on a large scale . |
| 6 | A possible clue to this unusual verbal spate of self-revelation , which caused me some surprise , was , as we now know , that he was at that time engaged in writing The Family Reunion . |
| 7 | For if we ask , In what respect is the " eternity " of Yahweh significant in the present context , it is in the sense of line B , that he was in distant times creator of the earth ; and it is his creative power that lies behind the subsequent lines ( vv. 28c-31 ) . |