Example sentences of "was [prep] [adj] time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recruiting , therefore , was for some time done by means of the Old Boy network . |
| 2 | He was at that time receiving £210 , together with £20 for coal , £10 for cleaning , and £10 for gardening . |
| 3 | As a result of a visit to Ruthenia in 1939 on behalf of the Evening Standard during which she was briefly imprisoned , she met and married the then notorious journalist Claud Cockburn who was at that time producing his one-man newsletter The Week . |
| 4 | Kermode 's seminar established a useful informal link with the work going on at Cambridge , and the participants included Stephen Heath , Jonathan Culler , who was at that time teaching at Cambridge , and Culler 's then wife , Veronica Forrest-Thomson . |
| 5 | A possible clue to this unusual verbal spate of self-revelation , which caused me some surprise , was , as we now know , that he was at that time engaged in writing The Family Reunion . |
| 6 | I was at that time calling on and off at Faber 's , sometimes seeing Eliot and sometimes missing him . |
| 7 | John Allison was at that time based at Coningsby and seeing as he would initially be carrying out all the flying on the aircraft , it seemed an obvious choice to base it there . |
| 8 | For its good government , I committed it to Wenilo , who was at that time serving me as my clerk in my chapel " . |
| 9 | In its Working Paper the Committee was prepared to recommend that the penalty be raised to five years even though no limitation on the scope of rape by threat was at that time envisaged . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The reverse had a marked impact on Moltke , whose mental concentration was at that time directed to the western theatre . |
| 12 | Present at the Bride Street meeting were Wilson , Tom Mann , Ben Tillett and Charles Lindley , a former sailor out of Sunderland and familiar of Havelock Wilson and his family who was at that time attempting to organise seamen in Sweden . |
| 13 | My mother was at that time becoming suspiciously youthful in appearance . |
| 14 | There would be precious little searoom off the beaches in amphibious landings , and putting a 4,000 ton assault ship ashore was at one time thought so hazardous that none was expected to survive . |
| 15 | This criticism is part of a wider attack on the use of classification of functions as a criterion for deciding issues such as the availability of judicial remedies to control administrative action ( the remedy of certiorari was at one time said to be available only if the decision-maker was under a duty to act ‘ judicially ’ ) , or the applicability of the rules of natural justice in particular circumstances ( sometimes said to apply only to ‘ judicial functions ’ ) . |
| 16 | It was at one time said that statutes were drafted in such a way as to be intelligible only to lawyers . |
| 17 | An inset was at one time created for Skelton , and it resulted in a considerable amount of building on the south side . |
| 18 | Indeed it was at one time believed that the advent of the railways had signalled the end of the movement of live meat . |
| 19 | The brief interval allowed for the establishment of a link between neutral and significant events was at one time elevated into a general law of associative learning . |
| 20 | He took poorly even to relaxed airforce discipline ; was incapable of keeping a log-book , and was at one time placed under arrest for disobedience . |
| 21 | A collective resolution of this sort of worry was at one time to employ someone to patrol the streets all night , calling out " Three o'clock and all 's well ! " or whatever , at regular intervals , providing reassurance to the sleeping citizens in their beds and even more so to any insomniacs . |
| 22 | Also among those released was Aleke Banda , a former secretary-general of the ruling Malawi Congress Party ( MCP ) who had been detained for 12 years without charge ; he was at one time considered to be the heir-apparent of the ageing President Hastings Banda . |
| 23 | Echinacea purpurea , also native to the American prairies , was at one time included with the rudbeckias as R. purpurea , differing most obviously in having purplish-red ray-florets . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The amber was at one time polished to make a pendant with the fly as centre piece . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | Born in 1864 , she was at one time wooed by the future Kaiser William but instead married the Russian Grand Duke Sergei , assassinated by anarchists in 1905 . |
| 29 | According to Adam , he was at some time expelled from Denmark by King Eric of Sweden , unsuccessfully sought help in Norway and England , and was eventually welcomed by a rex Scothorum , with whom he lived in exile for fourteen years until Eric 's death . |
| 30 | Mr. Smith , the Standard Three master was at this time nearing retirement . |