Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | It was about the only time Ken opened up about his feelings about living in Farley Court by himself . |
2 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
3 | It was not going to be easy to get any other candidate , and it was at the same time impossible to let the seat go by default . |
4 | ‘ Our legends say that it was at the same time as the great Ebony Throne of Ireland . ’ |
5 | The repudiation of Hellenism in Jerusalem was certainly a reassertion of the faithfulness of the Jewish community to the God of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob , but it was at the same time the result of many individual choices . |
6 | While JCI diversified its interests in South Africa , it was at the same time increasing its shareholding in Johnson Matthey in the UK . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Francis was delighted at landing Bright — even if it was at the third time of asking . |
9 | It was for a long time a small and cheap organisation . |
10 | During the development of modern phonetics in the present century it was for a long time hoped that scientific study of intonation would make it possible to state what the function of each different aspect of intonation was , and that foreign learners could then be taught rules to enable them to use intonation in the way that native speakers use it . |
11 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
12 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |
13 | In 1888 it was for the first time possible to go by train the whole way from Constantinople to Calais , and the Trans-Siberian railway was completed in 1904 . |
14 | But at the conference it was for the first time agreed to allow the constituency parties to elect their own separate representatives to the National Executive , and this at once led to the appearance in this category of Sir Stafford Cripps , Professor Harold Laski and D. N. Pritt — all advocates of close collaboration with the Communist Party , and Pritt indistinguishable from an actual card-carrying member . |
15 | When Mellor joined colleagues for yesterday 's Cabinet meeting , he knew it was for the last time . |
16 | I saw it happen with Jaco Pastorius — I know what it was like the first time I heard him . |
17 | It was like the first time she 'd seen him , just after Peter had introduced her as his fiancée . |
18 | It was like the other time . |
19 | It was 1852 before freight receipts exceeded passenger receipts and it was around the same time that the railways overtook the canals to become the principal freight carriers . |