Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect this was a time when new worlds and new social structures were being forged ; and in many ways we were closer to the world of the underground than that of the moral majority , for we were walking the same ground and like many in the alternative society were ( somewhat unsystematically ) following an essential and perennial theme of history — that of man 's journey as ‘ hero ’ . |
| 2 | This was a time when the universities were meeting the new challenge of implementing the Health and Safety at Work Act , which was designed for industrial and commercial organisations much less individualistic and varied than academic institutions . |
| 3 | For the remainder of the United Kingdom , this was a time when social or political upheaval seemed comparatively remote , and society appeared relatively orderly . |
| 4 | This was a time when Haslam learned the subtle art of keeping up appearances despite the fact that the world seemed to be collapsing all around him . |
| 5 | However , this was a time when there was some easing of the restrictions against the Nonconformists . |
| 6 | This was a time of peak union activity for many countries , for from Europe provided workers with different organisational concepts . |
| 7 | This hospital had been converted to a centre for research and instruction in the venereal diseases , and , by a happy coincidence , this was a time of great advances in the field . |
| 8 | As Joy Larkcom points out , the original text was ‘ notable for its clarity and brevity : this was a time for instructions , not explanations ’ . |
| 9 | He emphasizes that this was a time when the significance of the ‘ economic security and social esteem hitherto associated with membership ’ was declining . |
| 10 | This was a time of very rapid warming at the end of a little ice age and if we can understand how the climate changed at this time , we 're much better able to predict future climatic perturbations as the earth warms up due to the addition of greenhouse gases . |
| 11 | Such movement was especially great in the 1960s and 1970s because this was a time of rapid change in industrial technology , calling for new investments , and capitalists preferred to make ‘ drastic adjustments , such as massively replacing living labor by machines and/or disciplining their labor forces ’ ( p. 129 ) in areas of low-intensity class struggle . |
| 12 | What is certain is that this was a time of decisive advance in the recognition accorded to individual persons . |
| 13 | This was a time of ‘ rehabilitative optimism ’ : there was a widespread belief that criminology and other behavioural sciences would progressively discover the causes of crime and the way to cure all offenders of their criminality . |
| 14 | This was a time when British sports coverage was being obliged to shed its amateur gentleman ethos . |
| 15 | But this was a time of hope , too . |
| 16 | There was something about the look in his eyes that told her this was a time to listen and not argue . |
| 17 | This was a time of real communion , and it was not long before his parishioners began to think of him , as well as to address him , as Father Brendan rather than as Father McGiff , and he began to look on them as his family , and on Cork , their city , as his only home . |
| 18 | This was a time of great Soviet optimism about the potential of the Third World : the fact that Latin America was not included in Khrushchev 's ‘ zone of peace ’ of African and Asian nations is a telling indication of the region 's ill-defined status and low priority in Soviet eyes . |
| 19 | This was a time of panic , in which one farmer alleged that a thousand of his sheep had been killed by these parrots ; but it is now known that they rarely kill sheep . |
| 20 | This was a time of growing conflict and rivalry between the Dutch Republic , England and France for mastery of international commerce and all three used the power of the state , through a wide range of mercantilist measures , to influence the outcome . |
| 21 | There is plenty of material about Jacobite activity from those hostile to a Stuart restoration , but since this was a time when immense political advantage was to be gained by tarnishing one 's opponents with the stigma of loyalty to the exiled royal family , such sources must be treated with immense scepticism . |
| 22 | This was a time when , for the first time , modern linguistics was being applied to the study of literature in the U.K. Often , I felt , this approach led to misunderstanding and even animosity between literary and linguistic scholars . |
| 23 | That was a time when civilization |
| 24 | That was a time for rejoicing and oaths of loyalty ; but now every man was called on to help decide the future of the clan . |
| 25 | In the spring , he had to have a heart by-pass operation , and that was a time of anxiety and distress . |
| 26 | That was a time of great Soviet confidence and influence , buttressed by military massiveness . |
| 27 | That was a time when a foreign passport offered little defence against arbitrary injustice from the authorities , and the very mention of the Avant-garde artists ' names incurred the risk of repression . |
| 28 | That was a time when young and old had thronged the streets to welcome in a new century and , though anything with the 1800s about it was already as dead as history , it still took some years before the magical 19 in the date lost its strangeness and one would write it without a slight hesitation . |
| 29 | That was a time when the proudest moment of Denis 's young life had been being brought by his mother to Fitzgerald 's Park to see his father , brave and bold and handsome in his dress uniform , standing firmly to attention with his company as His Majesty King Edward VII — who seemed to Denis like a huge teapot with his cigar puffing steam like a spout — and Queen Alexandra moved sedately among the flower displays at the Great Cork Exhibition . |
| 30 | That was a time for peat fires and firelit talk , with the wind a symphony to set stories to . |