Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if teachers were given the time and opportunity to develop their professional lives in the ways they felt most suitable , the questions and dilemmas that face them are so many and so deep that it is indeed a daunting task . |
| 2 | My aims were to record the time distribution of night visits and to show the trend in claims in Berkshire over the past 10 years after adjusting for the change in claimable hours . |
| 3 | But , if they were to reduce the time it takes to qualify , I definitely do n't think is should be any less than four years . |
| 4 | But you might say , and I councillor did say in fact that of course we would be most unfair in the way that we did this because to quote from him er we were giving no time , no time for discussion , no time for evaluation no time . |
| 5 | And erm , if I were to stop every time I heard a car go by , I 'd be stopping all the time , erm , to some extent , it becomes a part of your pattern of existence . |
| 6 | If that were to happen every time there were a referral to the European Court the laws , not just of this country but of all other members of the EC , would be in chaos . |
| 7 | As it is now three years since the present display team was formed the time has come for an audition to be held , this will be early in the autumn . |
| 8 | And you was given a time to go in to sign on . |
| 9 | Flat fields interspersed by dykes gleaming in the June sunshine spread as far as the eye could see and skylarks hovered and trilled overhead , but Nails , cautiously taking it all in , was given no time for comment . |
| 10 | She was given no time to protest , as he found her mouth with his , and pressed her hard against him . |
| 11 | THERE were angry scenes outside Inverness Sheriff Court yesterday when a new age traveller was given no time to pay a £500 fine and jailed for 14 days . |
| 12 | The high jump record of the Sixties was broken every time Cliff Huxford went into merciless action for Southampton . |
| 13 | The reason the programme 's taken so long , was to find a time when he 's available . |
| 14 | Time zero was considered the time of completion of the test meal . |
| 15 | ( A decade later , Johnson , on a journey to Oxford , sat in the stage-coach beside a Mrs Beresford and her daughter ; the girl was passing the time in knotting , a kind of tatting , in which coloured threads are knitted into decorative knots . |
| 16 | Of public concern in the past about football crowds he said : ‘ With the best will in the world , the centre of the town was affected every time there was a major home game at Airdrie , attracting a large travelling support . |
| 17 | But when the day had dragged to evening — in spite of all there was to do the time now passed slowly — and still there was no sign of the two men , she began to lose hope . |
| 18 | Thus was introduced the time when the Created God ceased to be produced solely from all that was good in the struggle for existence , and entered the period , still going on , when mankind itself began to influence the nature of that God . |
| 19 | It was through school generally and school teachers in particular that his interest was aroused and : ‘ When I was approaching the time to leave school , my interest was in athletics ; I either wanted to join the army as a PE instructor or I thought about taking a course in physical education . ’ |
| 20 | Each member of staff was allocated a time on the machine , and Chief Manager Roddy Reid pledged £25 provided staff reached the target of 100 miles . |
| 21 | And he was having the time of his life . |
| 22 | The former Premier , who took Britain into Europe , was hissed every time his face appeared on giant screens . |
| 23 | The difficulty was finding a time to instruct them . |
| 24 | I said well you see I was making a time machine and all I needed was one more microchip and what was sitting right up under my nose ? |
| 25 | Once the initial problems encountered during the first run of six aircraft had been overcome , it was assured the time limit could be met . |
| 26 | Mr McCreary told the tribunal : ‘ As she was leaving my office , she said : ‘ I suppose what I should have done was take the time off sick anyway . |
| 27 | It should have been no surprise : Johnson scored two of the goals in last season 's play-off final against Brighton and was booed every time he touched the ball by home fans with good memories . |
| 28 | Beasant , 33 , was booed every time he touched the ball after his errors led to goals for Robins and Phillips . |