Example sentences of "it [was/were] a time " in BNC.
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1 | It was a time for fierce tactics , not for scruples . |
2 | It was a time when children were encouraged to fantasize about machines and outer space rather than marvel at the open spaces where the deer and buffalo roamed . |
3 | It was a time of great alarm in the Hindu heavens , for Ravana , the Rakshasa king of Lanka , had obtained terrible powers and was threatening the world . |
4 | But now , it was a time for truth and Phoebe said , ‘ No . |
5 | It was a time to dry out , three days of solid rain having dampened all but our spirits , and to finish our excess of the other kind of spirits before attempting to cross the border . |
6 | It was a time when the whole underground culture was at its height and I was very much involved in that and had been since early ‘ 67 . |
7 | It was a time before I began to understand her a little better and realise that a lot of this was actually a sort of ‘ attention-getting ’ — a bit of theatre just to see how people would react — to manipulate situations a little . |
8 | Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing . |
9 | ‘ It was a time for other artists . ’ |
10 | It was a time for being away from the cities , for reading and reflection , and being alone with nature . |
11 | It was a time when to be ‘ new ’ seemed more than usually important , as exemplified by the titles of its livelier publications : New Writing , New Verse . |
12 | It was a time when commonsense and reality seemed to be in suspension . |
13 | Obviously it was a time to reconsider the issue of widening both sets of locks . |
14 | It was a time of great migration . |
15 | ‘ It was a time of freshness and discovery of what acting was all about , ’ he said . |
16 | It was a time for reflection in 1964 , when the film was released . |
17 | Athens … was a place of wonder and beauty , and it was a time to marvel at the achievements of mathematicians and astronomers — a time to build and admire a Tower of the Winds . ’ |
18 | It was a time of great anxiety and distress , and yet everything that was beautiful and worth while seemed more precious than ever before . |
19 | For me it was a time of revelation . |
20 | For those whose husbands had not yet returned , which included my own husband , it was a time of unhappy waiting . |
21 | It was a time for flower power and a return to nature and the simple ways . |
22 | It was a time of great British expansion and it is thought that , in the guise of ships ' cats , they were scattered from the British Isles all over the globe in a comparatively short space of time . |
23 | She did so , it was a time before statues were used for devotion . |
24 | He repeated , together with the Chairman of the Social Work Committee , Mrs Mairhi Trickett , that seven o'clock in the morning was the right time to take the children , as it was a time when families would all be together . |
25 | It was a time when Madness seemed the most immortal of pop bands . |
26 | She said that it was a time for prayer and especially for prayers of protection against evil of any kind and , sending for her holy book , quoted me the following passage : |
27 | While he was still with them it was a time of celebration and joy . |
28 | Fellow victim , Barclays executive Simon Culling , 27 , said : ‘ It was a time of overwhelming fear . |
29 | It was a time of overwhelming fear . |
30 | It was a time of discovery and experiment . |