Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , no trials of efficacy were carried out at that time , and this is impossible to do now as the vaccination schedules are in such widespread use . |
| 2 | The ‘ opposition ’ governors imagine themselves to be more important than they really are ; they have state , not federal , responsibilities ; their comments on federal matters should therefore not be regarded as of primary importance ; and , if they were reported fully at all times , this would be giving them a greater prominence in national affairs than they deserve . |
| 3 | So small an area of land was available in Barbados when it turned to sugar in the 1640s that land prices were pushed up to ten times the level at which it had been sold for growing tobacco . |
| 4 | Yet once that dominant interest existed , the option of directing available money away from consumers to producers was no longer real if the system were to grow sufficiently in good times , survive in bad . |
| 5 | Contracts of employment were unknown and I remember the gloom at home if Dad announced that the works were going on to short time . |
| 6 | Maltwood believed that the figures were laid out in prehistoric times as a form of temple or sanctuary , using the natural forms of the landscape with a minimum of artificial alteration . |
| 7 | Vron and Barry were crying again by that time , crying gratefully , consolably , in each other 's arms . |
| 8 | Large generic social services departments , which arose from the proposals from the Seebohm Committee on Local Authority and Allied Personal Social Services ( 1968 ) were set up at this time . |
| 9 | Residents eating locally-grown vegetables were consuming up to 11 times the maximum amount of lead regarded as safe by the World Health Organization . |
| 10 | Heads were swivelling completely round this time — to the back row where sat Phil Aldrich , nodding his head in gentle agreement , a wry smile on his long , lugubrious face . |
| 11 | Last year 's winners Imperial were put out after extra time and penalties by five times previous holders White China . |
| 12 | The flames were put out in good time and the donkey was said to be fit for the final , against Preston North End . |
| 13 | After a century or so of political apathy , Hong Kong 's young people were making up for lost time . |
| 14 | The nun realised that now the child had no one to protect her , some of the other children were making up for lost time . |
| 15 | It seems certain that hidden teachings on sacred geometry — form , shape , proportion , number , measure and materials — were passed on into Christian times and were incorporated into much church architecture , including the great cathedrals . |