Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They constitute an acknowledgment by the delegates , committee and officers that the Association was for the time being inadequately organised and funded for undertaking major tasks on the national scene . |
| 2 | Many are indicated by dedications , but the circular churchyards , oratories , holy wells and inscribed memorial stones and crosses all indicate how widespread such Christian sites were by the time of the Norman Conquest . |
| 3 | my concerns is , my concerns were at the time that we , we might not be able to continue with that statement because it might become inaccurate |
| 4 | While Brunner 's theology was for a time regarded , especially in Britain and America , as more ‘ moderate ’ than Barth 's , and therefore preferable , he must now be regarded as the less radical and less creative of the two . |
| 5 | His first question was about the time she was having , his first statement that the cat — and he — were doing fine . |
| 6 | Danish Christianity went back only to his grandfather Harald Bluetooth , and according to Adam of Bremen Christians were for a time persecuted by Swegen Forkbeard . |
| 7 | True , what he had felt for Kee was at the time a stronger passion , and so far as charm went they could n't be compared . |
| 8 | Mrs Williams was at the time the most popular women in the world , after Mother Teresa , and it occurred to me , rather too late , that I was on to a loser here . |
| 9 | Since the infant plaintiff was at the time of the accident en ventre sa mère she was not then a person or a human being in esse and in fact she had no separate existence apart from her mother . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm just trying to explain how things were at the time . |
| 11 | Vern Zelmer , now managing director of Rank Xerox ( UK ) Ltd , recalls how things were at the time . |
| 12 | These firms were at the time of out visit listed over each block of filing cabinets . |
| 13 | This only illustrates how very scarce male dancers were at the time . ’ |
| 14 | True , revolution was for a time a strong possibility , if not a probability ; and as true , such a revolution would of course have been seen as the means to industrial democracy by those who sought it . |
| 15 | A marriage is so voidable if it has not been consummated because of the incapacity of either party , or because of one party 's wilful refusal to consummate it ; if the marriage was entered into without the consent of either party ( e.g. by reason of duress , mistake , or unsound mind ) ; if at the time of the marriage one party was suffering from mental disorder of such a kind as to render him or her unfitted for marriage , or from venereal disease ; or if the wife was at the time of the marriage pregnant by some other person than her husband . |
| 16 | At the end of teaching , the long street towards the centre of Cullbridge was for a time a babble of noise , with scuffles , cap-snatching and schoolboy indecencies hurled from green-blazered groups on one side to green-blazered groups on the other . |
| 17 | Many polytechnics were now as large as many of the universities and in a similar , if not better , condition than the CATs were at the time they became universities . |
| 18 | Ballymacarrett and Clonard people were at the time of the research overwhelmingly unemployed or in unskilled and low-status occupations . |
| 19 | Foucault is correct to identify Cuvier as a central figure in these debates , even if he exaggerates how successful Cuvier 's arguments were at the time . |
| 20 | The second example was of a time when Caesar was ill , and cried to Titinius to get him a drink , as feebly as a woman might ( says Cassius ) , and he bore his illness in a cowardly way . |
| 21 | But fusion was at the time buried beneath a blanket of secrecy : not open to the usual processes of review that attend research available for the scientific community to read the scientific papers and arrive at their own interpretation of the results . |
| 22 | For Christopherson it was an ‘ exciting time , especially for engineers ’ , since engineering was at the time underrepresented and low priority in the universities . |
| 23 | Marx and Engels ' arbiter model of the state suggested that if class forces in society were for a time evenly balanced , then the state bureaucracy and a strong political — military leader could intervene to impose stabilizing policies which were not controllable by capital , although they would be bound to maintain capitalist predominance in economic life . |
| 24 | The bomb exploded , apparently prematurely , in an empty bank building near a concert hall where the band of the Blues and Royals was at the time giving a charity performance in front of some 350 people . |
| 25 | They tell us that a stonemason 's third marriage at 57 was his happiest ; or that a retired doctor found ‘ life was for a time difficult ’ for lack of ‘ any special hobbies . ’ |
| 26 | because the cry of the Soviets was at the time , in nineteen seventeen , the cry of the Soviets was not for communism or socialism but their cry , and they had it inscribed on their banners , peace land and bread , that 's what they had there , peace , land and bread , not communism . |
| 27 | ( f ) Section 32(2) ( b ) , dealing with the search of anyone arrested for any offence , arrestable or otherwise , allows the police to enter and search the premises where the suspect was at the time of his arrest or immediately before for evidence relating to the offence for which he was arrested . |
| 28 | In consequence the Crown estates were by the time of his death probably larger than they had ever been before . |
| 29 | Ordinary arrangements for working the line were for the time suspended . |
| 30 | When the Foreign Office List made its first appearance " it was strongly objected to in certain quarters , as likely to afford information to the general public with regard to the office , which they thought it advisable they should not possess , and much information was for a time withheld " . |