Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] [art] time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reckon it were about the time of the Great War . |
| 2 | It was about the time of the William & Mary declaration that a group , predominately Quaker , and motivated by one Dr. Edward Wright " Physician at the Sign of the Ship neare the Monument in London " , became interested in mining and smelting . |
| 3 | It was at the time of the doodle-bugs , the flying bombs , and air raid warnings were frequent . |
| 4 | Faith coming before and bringing about healing is as real to many Christians today as it was at the time of the Gospel . |
| 5 | We experienced the operation of a principle widely applicable and perhaps more generally recognised now than it was at the time of the events I have recorded . |
| 6 | Teacher education is a smaller scale enterprise than it was at the time of the events I have recorded . |
| 7 | It was at the time of the Bulganin-Khruschev circus and my leave was very short — not long enough to clear up my mother 's affairs as I wished to do . |
| 8 | Yet to mere man , Venice stands today on a group of islands at the head of the Adriatic very much as it was at the time of the great Doges . |
| 9 | The mathematics curriculum is much broader now than it was at the time of the 11+ . |
| 10 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that in many parts of the Yorkshire and Humberside region unemployment is significantly lower than it was at the time of the previous election , and that what the regional CBI fears above all else is the havoc that would be caused by a Labour Government , with their commitment to a statutory minimum wage , which would wipe out so many jobs , and to the European Community social chapter , which would make British industry uncompetitive in world terms ? |
| 11 | The rebuilt barn had been laid out just as it was at the time of the fire in January last year . |
| 12 | It was during the time of Viking domination that Rognvald Kolsson began to build his magnificent , red sandstone cathedral in Kirkwall , named after martyred St Magnus , killed on the island of Eglisay in 1116 AD . |
| 13 | ( It was from the time of this incarceration that he developed his chest and joint complaints . ) |
| 14 | In January 1219 the sheriff of Huntingdon was ordered to see that the Forest was kept as it was in the time of King John : the perambulating jury was summoned before the Council , amerced and imprisoned . |
| 15 | Across the road from the churchyard is Poosie Nansie 's pub , the setting for Burns 's poem ‘ The Jolly Beggars ’ , and is as welcoming today as it was in the time of Scotia 's bard . |
| 16 | The problem of fertility is as unsolved as it was in the time of Aristotle , and the principal bugbear is lack of cooperation . |