Example sentences of "[det] was [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a crucial time . |
| 2 | Without looking up she said : ‘ I do n't know what you are getting at , Mr Wycliffe ; all this was a long time ago . ’ |
| 3 | this was a long time ago parties about two years ago |
| 4 | This was a tumultuous time , when many public figures came under political scrutiny . |
| 5 | Perhaps this was a good time to prepare the ground . |
| 6 | Her scream of delight told me this was a good time to move away . |
| 7 | This was a sad time for me . |
| 8 | Indeed , milk probably became more plentiful about May , the notional time of Langland 's vision , although the continuation of the passage suggests that in other respects this was a bad time of year . |
| 9 | He claims this was the best time of his life . |
| 10 | He claims this was the best time of his life . |
| 11 | At the end of the story significantly called Youth , a story in which Conrad calls on his own memory of the testing of ardent feelings in critical conditions in describing the last fatal , curtailed voyage of the old Judea , Marlow as narrator , sitting in comfortable middle age among men who , like him , had served an apprenticeship at sea , challenges them to deny that this was the best time of their lives : |
| 12 | I could n't work in those circumstances , so I decided this was the right time if I really wanted to do something with my solo career , just break loose completely . ’ |
| 13 | He was pleased that this was the right time . |
| 14 | Surely , this was the promised time ? |
| 15 | Perhaps because this was the first time I was all alone in a big city in a new country . |
| 16 | This was the first time the phrase Scenic Land Cruise had been used by a train operator — but it certainly was not the last . |
| 17 | As Elijah Moshinsky looked out from the roof-top coffee shop of the plush hotel overlooking Plymouth Hoe — in which he is ensconced during rehearsals of Shadowlands — he confessed that this was the first time he had been to Plymouth in his life . |
| 18 | When the latest decision became known last night , Peter said that it was encouraging for Mansell , the Ferrari lawyer pointing out that this was the first time that the FIA had not confirmed a decision . |
| 19 | This was the first time I had seen him since the landings . |
| 20 | This was the first time she had come into my thoughts since I left England . |
| 21 | It was a very difficult period , because whereas retrenchment and redundancy are now something employees understand and accept , this was the first time it had ever happened in ICI since the war . |
| 22 | This was the first time this season that the number one Mercedes , which suffered all weekend from a curious instability on the bumpiest section of the 2.75 mile track , did not start a WSPC race from the front row . |
| 23 | The Home Secretary 's reserve powers were not intended to be used frequently and this was the first time they had been used . |
| 24 | This was the first time they had reached the second round and it was reflected in the atmosphere , though the official attendance of 3,877 , a record for the purpose-built Meadow Park ground , was hardly accurate . |
| 25 | This was the first time we had returned to Eggleston Burn since a summer visit in search of the Grass of Parnassus and butterwort that grow in its boggy flushes . |
| 26 | If he actually put his foot down and said , ‘ No , I think that 's ridiculous ’ , everyone shut up and listened , and I feel that this was the first time that he realised that he did have the powers of leadership , not only on stage but also off stage . ’ |
| 27 | This was the first time that the health service had ever been asked to make staff economies . |
| 28 | This was the first time he had ever talked about himself , so she knew it must be very important and felt flattered that he was confiding in her . |
| 29 | This was the first time . |
| 30 | In her words ‘ I find myself blaming this for my self-hate , my lack of confidence , my feeling of , ‘ how can anyone love me ’ ’ She had kept this a secret and this was the first time it had been put on paper . |