Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considering that this was written at a time when Pound 's reputation was eclipsed as Eliot 's rose towards the zenith , the generosity of this essay , its lack of rancour , is admirable . |
| 2 | This was followed by a time of crisis : employment ! |
| 3 | A night-time curfew was imposed throughout the country on Oct. 2 ; this was extended for a time to 24 hours on Oct. 5 when it appeared that the rebels had reached the capital . |
| 4 | Guatemala has relied heavily on external aid , especially from the United States , though this was suspended for a time under the Carter administration because of Guatemala 's human rights record . |
| 5 | Dr Gillian Sutherland 's book Ability , Merit and Measurement has shown how testing in some ways preceded theoretical elaborations of the intelligence quotient — and how this was established by the time of the Spens report of 1938 . |
| 6 | Much was made at the time of the Prince 's engagement of the youthfulness and consequent innocence of his bride . |
| 7 | All were used at the time of the Edgar " Ordo " . |
| 8 | Scotland , compared to England and Wales , has relatively few medieval churches but , precisely because so many were destroyed at the time of the Reformation , Scotland is rich in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ecclesiastical architecture . |