Example sentences of "was [verb] in [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was reported in the Times Educational Supplement that Ferndale Comprehensive School in Mid-Glamorgan issued all of its first year pupils with free uniform and sports clothing . |
| 2 | It was reported in The Times of 6th March 1975 that Mr Toffrey Reeves , a surveyor for the National House Owners Association , which is a cut-price conveyancing group operating in England , was ordered in the High Court on 5th March to pay £3,000 damages to a client for failing to detect structural defects in the house he bought . |
| 3 | During the year the University was featured in the Times Educational Supplement ; published the first of its new-style Annual Reports ; and attracted more favourable press comment as a forward looking , responsive institution . |
| 4 | What we had at Maastricht was old hat ; it was living in a time warp . |
| 5 | was done in the time of which set up the Republic of Ireland , get the I R A to declare a truce and talk to them and I think |
| 6 | On 1 March he published his intention of inviolably observing the Charter of the Forest in all its articles : he appointed four commissioners to supervise the making in each forest county of ‘ a true perambulation , namely that which was made in the time of the lord King Henry our father , which has not yet been challenged ’ . |
| 7 | It is illustrated in an English manuscript of the 13th century , was used in the time of Gerard , and later by Culpeper , and altogether was so well-known and commonly used medicinally , that it was thought " but lost time and labour to describe it " . |
| 8 | Luke is wrong , therefore , in saying that the census carried out at the birth of Jesus was taken in the time of Quirinius . |
| 9 | If such was indeed the case , the assertion of later authors that the Muftilik was created in the time of Murad II , if it has any validity at all , would have to be interpreted as the elevation of an already existing semi-official or official post of no particular consequence , as , in effect , the transformation of the muftilik of Bursa into the Muftilik of the Ottoman lands . |
| 10 | While the earliest sources give no clue to the date of Molla Fenari 's appointment to the Muftilik but simply state that he was Mufti , later Turkish tradition has asserted that the Muftilik was created in the time of Murad II ; and as it is almost universally held that Molla Fenari was the first Mufti , his appointment , if the tradition is to be believed , must have occurred after 824/1421 , the year of Murad II 's accession . |
| 11 | Some historians go no further than saying that the Muftilik was created in the time of Murad II ; but others have stated that Molla Fenari was appointed Mufti in the year 828/1424–5 . |
| 12 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |