Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Short courses , for teachers already in post , were arranged from time to time , though they assumed nothing like the significance that in-service provision was to have later . |
2 | They are adjusted so that if the project were completed on time to specification the contractor would realize a reasonable profit . |
3 | The restoration and re-furbishing were completed in time for a great service of re-hallowing on 27th July . |
4 | Translations in ‘ latin ’ languages like Spanish and Italian were completed in time for the promulgation of the test by the Holy Father on December 7th last year . |
5 | The voices of churchmen were heard from time to time , perhaps frequently , complaining of the enslavement of Christians , or of the treatment of slaves ; but there was no radical attack on the institution as such . |
6 | Around 650 responses of this kind were received in time to be included in the analysis . |
7 | They could be cured if they were treated in time with iodine , whole gland , or pure hormone . |
8 | Inspectors , some of them Englishmen , were dismissed from time to time for accepting bribes or for other dubious practices . |
9 | The princes were seen from time to time when , with a strong guard , they rode through the streets of the City . |
10 | Heavy reclamation walls were built from time to time as the docks were extended seawards and today , the dock estate lies entirely on land reclaimed from the foreshore . |
11 | Bitter correspondence in July and August failed to resolve the dispute although Smith & Jones did make a without prejudice offer of £500 ( in respect of the two deliveries which were made on time without damaged goods ) to settle the matter . |
12 | A number of reconstructions were made from time to time , especially under Julius Caesar and Augustus . |
13 | ‘ All normal programmes were cancelled and brief announcements were made from time to time , interspersed with solemn music , ’ recalls Jean Williams , of Noel 's Court , Catterick Village . |
14 | In this area , however , during the Quaternary they were invaded from time to time by thick wedges of debris flows . |
15 | Plagues were experienced from time to time , particularly where people were crowded together in places like London , which suffered the Great Plague in 1665 , followed by the Great Fire in 1666 , which the Roman Catholics on the Continent declared was a punishment for the beheading of King Charles I. In the event , the Great Fire enabled King Charles II , who took control in September 1666 , to arrange the clearance of the fire devastated area and to rebuild the City of London with Christopher Wren in charge of the plan , so that the mass of narrow streets were replaced , to a great extent , by wider , straighter roads , with some magnificent building , including St. Paul 's Cathedral . |
16 | Lyell saw each biogeographical province as a ‘ centre of creation ’ where new species typical of that province were created from time to time , spreading out from the centre to occupy as much territory as they could . |
17 | Prisoners-of-war , wandering free men , peasants and natives were mobilized from time to time into detachments of foreign servicemen ( Litva ) or cossacks , and there were service gentry from European Russia stationed in the region for periods of several years . |