Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rowse was at that time in London , or I might ( I said ) have asked him to tea and taken some soundings . |
| 2 | The reverse had a marked impact on Moltke , whose mental concentration was at that time directed to the western theatre . |
| 3 | Imperial College was at one time very active in Scottish geology , but , since the death of Professor Watson , and the retirement of her husband , Professor Sutton , interest in Scottish research has diminished here , although the College remains one of the UK 's major institutions in geological research . |
| 4 | The institution was at that time entirely concerned with the education of teachers and future teachers , and recruited predominantly , though not exclusively , from the conurbation in which it was located , and which it was designed to serve . |
| 5 | Her teeth were equally so , and her fresh complexion was at that time glowing with good health ; her blond hair is a beautiful shining blond colour . |
| 6 | The Franco-Prussian war was at this time still a recent memory , and German mathematicians quickly suspected that nationalistic sentiment lay behind the accusations directed at their adopted son . |
| 7 | The stone curlew was at one time classified in close proximity to the Otididae on the Systematic List of British Birds and declared to be an Otididae-oddity : a close relation of the bustard . |
| 8 | But in real life such oscillations are seldom as rhythmical as those of a stone hanging freely from a string ; the comparison would be more exact if the string were supposed to hang in the troubled waters of a mill-race , whose stream was at one time allowed to flow freely , and at another partially cut off . |
| 9 | However , as the laying-out and preparation of the body was at that time the responsibility of the family , it would appear that the guild limited themselves to three actions : the marshalling of their members to attend , and the selection from that company of those to carry the coffin ( though it would have been a strong guild able to command more than half a dozen of its members during a weekday ) ; to see the coffin safely into the church and to ensure that the burial equipment was in place ; and to attend the full obsequies on the following day , including the funeral feast . |
| 10 | The court was at one time a centre of licentiousness and depravity , of corruption and influence peddling . |
| 11 | I 'm talking about the the overshoot , and my comments about greenfield sites were related to period eighty one to ninety two , and it became quite clear during the eighties that the sketch plan green belt or development was at that time , through the eighties , was by and large abutting onto the urban area , that er through the eighties what everybody understood to the sketch plan green belt was tight up against er the urban area , so in resisting urban greenfield sites erm on the urban edge through the eighties the County Council were recognizing the greenbelt constraints . |
| 12 | But you see one other person who was there last night was at one time involved with a major , no longer major Scottish company which did all its substantial charitable giving anonymously once a year through its lawyers because they decided that they did not wish to be publicly associated with any particular thing and then the representative from John Lewis said last night |
| 13 | Their audiences were found in independent cinemas and discussion groups : their relationship to broadcast television was at that time non-existent . |
| 14 | An inset was at one time created for Skelton , and it resulted in a considerable amount of building on the south side . |
| 15 | She and Miki took to the stage again with Ministry , Miki sporting a rockerific white flying V. If I can remember correctly , Howard our manager was by this time on all fours with a bottle of tequila clutched firmly between his mitts — but this is what we pay him for . |
| 16 | Sometimes more soluble salts may survive in especially arid regions , for example the caliche of the Atacama desert , which consists of a mixture of very soluble sodium salts , of which the sodium nitrate was at one time very valuable commercially . |
| 17 | The beer was at that time customarily garnished with a slice of lemon . |
| 18 | The second leg was in extra time when the Austrians took a 2-1 lead on aggregate . |
| 19 | Bulgaria 's effective government was from this time in the hands of a Regency under Stambouloff . |
| 20 | In the event the issue was largely forgotten in the upheaval following the General Strike in 1926 , although the Miners ' Federation was from that time on a strong supporter of a national non-contributory scheme of family allowances . |
| 21 | Consider policy should be for all nationals , ie persons born within pre-1939 frontier of an Allied country , to be handed over to Ally concerned This final sentence underlined how keen Eighth Army was by this time to " clear the decks " in its area . |
| 22 | Despite some disappointments , the general progress of science was by this time undoubted , and a source of pride even to those not connected with it . |
| 23 | The amber was at one time polished to make a pendant with the fly as centre piece . |
| 24 | As followers of these pages will know , this project was at one time to have been directed by a America 's leading connoisseur of chaos , lunacy and bad taste , John Waters ( who made Pink Flamingos and Hairspray ) . |
| 25 | ‘ It just so happened that the Rachel killing was at that time . ’ |
| 26 | erm I then asked er additional questions to see what the up to the minute information was at that time . |
| 27 | Her purpose was to establish a pilot project which might encourage the government to use its antenatal clinics and infant and maternal welfare clinics , of which there were more than 2,000 , to distribute information on birth control and contraceptives ; the Ministry of Health was by that time offering financial aid to the 400 local authorities who ran such clinics and could have forced them to become centres for birth control . |
| 28 | The high beech hedge providing an arched entrance to the kitchen garden was at one time 20 seedlings collected in the Savernake forest . |
| 29 | The Tanat Valley Railway was at one time likely to have been involved in the grandiose proposal of 1845 concerning the West Midlands , Shrewsbury and Coast of Wales Railway Company . |
| 30 | Nitro-chalk was at one time a by-product of the gas and other industries , but now that manufacturing methods have changed , it is not so plentiful or cheap . |