Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [adv] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Kylie at her most vulnerable this was also the time when those who most despised her success happily fuelled rumours that she was anorexic . |
| 2 | This was also the time to lay ‘ haws , hips and holly berries in a trench ’ for a year , while November and February were the best months for transplanting . |
| 3 | The whole story is complicated by the fact that this was also the time of break-up of the supercontinent Pangaea . |
| 4 | I think that 's what Priest , I mean I do n't know , Priest probably has a whole history of how he got is Esquire style , but Vincent went over there and had something to do with it , and I really think that taking the old style stuff and giving it a new spin helped , and the difference between what we 're doing and what the California crowd was doing — and this was also the time of punk rock — was that we were using traditional typefaces and they were |
| 5 | Emily felt angry words rise to her lips but quickly suppressed them , this was neither the time nor the place to argue Craig 's innocence . |
| 6 | But this was neither the time nor the place for a show-down — the score would have to be settled later . |
| 7 | This was probably the time when Cenwealh established his own overkingship of the western Saxons . |
| 8 | Snizort thought that this was probably the time of day that the Beastline enjoyed best ; supping at the long oak table , making plans to regain Tara , drinking spiced wine or mead . |
| 9 | But then , with a shrug , he went back inside : this was hardly the time for sneering at pillars . |
| 10 | That was also the time when the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook claimed that Labour would win by a landslide in the 1987 election . |
| 11 | Though Connolly also headed straight at the goalkeeper in the 88th minute — that was probably the time McLean slipped off his sandbag — an even better opportunity for United to secure a share of the spoils was squandered by substitute Christian Dailly , who failed to even get his shot on target after getting in behind the Hearts defence . |
| 12 | That was still a time when serious writing was impossible , so I began to translate , mainly English , American and German novels and short story collections . |
| 13 | The time to consider whether one wishes to opt out and whether one was opposed to a certain system is always when a decision has been made , but I 'd have thought it would have been far in the interests of the people of Banbury and the children and parents of Banbury if they 'd taken full advantage of the discussion on the tertiary college and had made their opinions known , and in the light of the results coming out and say a satisfactory decision had arisen that was frankly the time to get into the business of opting out . |