Example sentences of "[be] a time in " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been a time in the seventh century when Anglo-Saxon kings with many men 's death on their consciences went to Rome to die in penitential garb . |
| 2 | As the protagonist in Kafka 's Conversation with a Suppliant confessed : ‘ There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive . ’ |
| 3 | There has never been a time in economic history when comparative advantage was less static . |
| 4 | However , general relativity claims to be only a partial theory , so what the singularity theorems really show is that there must have been a time in the very early universe when the universe was so small , that one could no longer ignore the small-scale effects of the other great partial theory of the twentieth century , quantum mechanics . |
| 5 | Many Christians believe that there will be a time in the future when Jesus , as Son of Man , will return . |
| 6 | There 's a time in your life when you will want to replace your paperbacks and forgotten best sellers with a library of beautiful and important books . |
| 7 | As Turner ( ibid. 99–100 ) records , this is a time in social history , when |
| 8 | Most Christians believe that there is a time in the future when Jesus will return . |
| 9 | There is a time in the day when the days are long , when the edge of light meets the edge of darkness and for a moment there is nothing . |
| 10 | Indeed there was a time in Christine 's life when work threatened to overtake everything else . |
| 11 | There was a time in advertising when the writer was generally considered to be the senior partner of the creative team of writer and art director . |
| 12 | There was a time in the very early universe when it was so hot that the particle energies would have been high enough for these transformations to take place . |
| 13 | There was a time in the history of the Liberal party when it trusted people with their own money and believed that they could make their own decisions . |
| 14 | It was a time in 1941 that he will not forget as a few hours later fifteen year old Tom witnessed the ‘ Clydebank Blitz . ’ |
| 15 | There was a time in the Swinging Sixties when the Richmond Meet looked like an anachronism — an out-dated throwback to more genteel times that had long since passed . |