Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | The rhynchosaurs had by that time became extinct . |
2 | Expectations had at one time run high , but a parallel case of offence by weakness emerged from the accounts of the home . |
3 | Against the $9.5 billion of deposit liabilities outstanding at the end of 1985 , the banks had at that time only about $1.5 billion of assets in the form of dinar credits . |
4 | It was apparent as the light grew that the rocks which lay scattered among the trees had at one time been arranged in order . |
5 | As already mentioned , the Irish bishops had for some time found the separation of church and state both a workable and desirable solution . |
6 | Many who had earlier worked against Scottish interests had for some time been making covert approaches and promises through envoys between the two Courts . |
7 | Some farms had in recent times improved their stock handling facilities and this had helped greatly . |
8 | There is also the supportive evidence of a later Greek tradition that skins had at one time been used as writing paper . |
9 | From a tentative experiment , bringing in a few girl trainees , mostly from charitable institutions , the employment in Edinburgh of women compositors had by Edwardian times become an institution . |
10 | The fact that the applicants in the main proceedings had for some time circumvented the objectives of the Common Fisheries Policy did not give them any legitimate expectation that they would be allowed to continue to do so in the future . |
11 | Relations between the communist states had for some time been less amicable than a common dedication to working-class interests might have suggested . |
12 | He lost little or nothing by the concession and , as we have seen , the papal letters had for some time indicated the likelihood of such a solution being acceptable at Rome . |
13 | Proposals such as these went a long way to alleviate Chinese concerns and brought closer the possibility of a summit meeting between the two leaderships for which Soviet spokesmen had for some time been calling . |
14 | Trade unions had for some time been supporting candidates for the House of Commons and spending union funds for this purpose . |