Example sentences of "was [prep] [adj] time [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For if we ask , In what respect is the " eternity " of Yahweh significant in the present context , it is in the sense of line B , that he was in distant times creator of the earth ; and it is his creative power that lies behind the subsequent lines ( vv. 28c-31 ) . |
| 2 | Keith was at that time second-in-command of the Mediterranean fleet , and his superior , Lord St. Vincent , no doubt familiar with Keith 's political needs , was willing to assist , but some midshipmen were not promotable . |
| 3 | He had been invited on the recommendation of Alan Mackenzie who was at that time Chaplain Secretary to the Salisbury Diocesan Association for the Deaf , of which Viscount Cranbourne was an active member . |
| 4 | Then the Chief Executive made further submissions to the Secretary of State , who was at that time Malcolm Rifkind . |
| 5 | Julian Charley , to Edward England , my publisher , and to St. John 's College , Nottingham , where I was at that time principal , and by whose Governors I had been given study leave in order to write the book . |
| 6 | In October 1987 the Presidency of the Central Committee of the Serbian Party summoned a special meeting of the Central Committee to consider the case of Dragiša Pavlović , who was at that time president of the Presidency of the Belgrade City Committee of the Party . |
| 7 | She was the daughter of a scientist who was at one time Deputy Master of the Mint . |
| 8 | Though his name does not appear , it was written by William Crowe ( 1745–1829 ) , who was at one time rector of Stoke Abbott in Dorset . |
| 9 | A liberal unionist , he was at one time president of the Ulster Liberal Unionist Association and a member of the committee of the Ulster Reform Club . |
| 10 | She was at this time secretary of the Londonderry branch of the NILP . |
| 11 | Henry Newbolt was at this time Hewlett 's neighbour in Wiltshire , and it seems to have been at this Christmas time that Hewlett took Pound to see Newbolt , who figures elsewhere in Canto 80 : |
| 12 | The Lorrimores , all four of them , arrived together to murmurs of sympathy , but the two young ones split off immediately from their parents and from each other , all of them gravitating to their various havens : the parents went to join Filmer and Daffodil of their own free will , Xanthe made a straight piteous line to Mrs Young , and Sheridan grabbed hold of Nell , who was by this time standing , saying that he needed her to sit with him , she was the only decent human being on the whole damn train . |