Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shepherd was silent for a time , considering , then he leaned forward and set his glass down on the table at his side . |
| 2 | The tea was cold by the time that Grace came down . |
| 3 | ‘ The wind was fresh at the time but should not have given the trawler any problems , ’ Mr Ellis said . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) That the transfer had been executed within the powers of the attorney ; that between the defendant and the perpetrators of the fraud the transfer was merely voidable ; and that , accordingly , the transfer was valid at the time when the building society advanced the mortgage money ( post , p. 680C–G , H ) . |
| 5 | The trail to the cemetery was familiar from the time before . |
| 6 | The failure of ambitious projects within the Council was evident by the time of its second session in 1950 . |
| 7 | No evidence of H pylori infection or mucosal inflammation were present at the time of reinvestigation . |
| 8 | On this occasion , however , Kaifu had resisted the move , arguing that Cabinet stability and continuity were crucial at a time when the government was under pressure from the impact of the Gulf crisis and from the collapse of the " Uruguay Round " of multinational trade negotiations . |
| 9 | A similar gender difference was apparent in the time spent helping someone who lived in a separate household ; here 32 per cent of women but only 22 per cent of men spent ten hours or more each week on care-giving ( Green , 1988 , p. 21 ) . |
| 10 | The match was level at the time and the Welsh were forced to concede the tie . |
| 11 | It was in this context that Lord Denning in Dunford and Elliott v Firth Brown [ 1978 ] FSR 143 added a gloss to the analysis of Megarry V-C in Coco v Clark ( AN ) ( Engineers ) Ltd when he said that if the stipulation of confidence was unreasonable at the time of making it ; or if it was reasonable at the beginning , but afterwards , in the course of subsequent happenings , it becomes unreasonable that it should be enforced : then the courts will decline to enforce it . |
| 12 | Where part of the estate consisted of a ‘ matrimonial home ’ , i.e. a house in which the surviving spouse was resident at the time of the death , the spouse may normally require the representatives to appropriate the deceased 's interest in the house in or towards the satisfaction of his or her absolute interest in the estate . |
| 13 | The secretary of each level of the party had quasi-absolute power over the members below him , and Elena had a double advantage : not only was she the Party secretary able to veto or grant small privileges for her colleagues , her husband was much of the time the Second Secretary in the Party at large , controlling the day-to-day business of the Romanian Communists under Dej 's supervision . |
| 14 | He conceded that his preferred solution of involving the Soviet Union in a guarantee was impracticable for the time being but it remained the most satisfactory long-term solution . |
| 15 | Is it not a fact that if the right Hon. Gentleman was dissatisfied with the time that would be available by way of a normal parliamentary answer , he could have opted as any Minister , with your permission , Mr. Speaker , to take that question at the end of Question time and then face proper intensive questions , or he could have made a statement ? |
| 16 | One can of course see Colonel Airey 's point , although the fact remains that his Commando was unemployed at the time and Stirling was about to be required to undertake an important series of raids . |
| 17 | Marek was asleep at the time but as soon as the woman hit the bed Nowak woke up with a scream . |
| 18 | The classifications and quality commendations that appear in entries in this guide were correct at the time of going to press . |
| 19 | All in all she managed to add considerably to her feelings of inadequacy as far as Ace was concerned by the time she made her way downstairs towards the kitchen . |
| 20 | The prices contained in this brochure were valid at the time of publication ( October 1991 ) . |
| 21 | Cos that so song was popular at the time ! |
| 22 | This disciplined approach was unusual for the time , and indeed , many later medieval wars were conducted in a far more haphazard manner . |
| 23 | However , said Mr Hardy , the road was wet at the time of the accident and the officer 's report said the speed involved was probably ‘ only marginally excessive ’ . |
| 24 | Yet a brief perusal of the central details of Wand 's career to date confirms that in fact his commitment to new music was paramount from the time he began to rebuild musical life in Cologne in the early post-war years . |
| 25 | The mean ( SD ) ages of the patients positive , 20.1 ( 7.9 ) months , and negative , 29.4 ( 16.1 ) months , to oral challenge were comparable at the time of the provocation ; the difference of 9.3 months with 95% confidence interval of ( -0.2 , 18.8 ) was statistically not significant . |
| 26 | During the next twenty months Mozart composed a substantial amount of music , including three symphonies and what was to be his last complete mass setting , K.337 ( an incomplete one survives , K.427/417a from 1782 , and the Requiem was unfinished at the time of his death ) . |
| 27 | This information was accurate at the time of going to print , which was August 1989 . |
| 28 | This information was accurate at the time of going to print , which was May 1989 . |
| 29 | But his profession was deficient at the time in that he failed to recognise the necessity of suffering . |
| 30 | Maxton , in reply , foresaw the formation of a new working-class party , but would not agree that unification was opportune at the time . |