Example sentences of "there [was/were] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there were a time clock for murder , it would show one every twenty-six minutes . |
| 2 | There was a time when it must have seemed to many of them that he would never receive a bad review , or even a cross word . |
| 3 | There was a time when many gliding instructors scorned the use of a rigid drill , and taught their students instead to check everything logically by going round the cockpit from left to right . |
| 4 | There was a time when British clocks were supreme throughout the world . |
| 5 | There was a time when the young eyes were slow , |
| 6 | There was a time , just after Britain and China signed in 1984 their Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong , when the colony looked forward with high hopes to the 50 or more years of capitalist autonomy which both parent-governments had promised would follow its reversion to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 . |
| 7 | For the West , as for the Poles , there was a time for obstinate political defiance . |
| 8 | There was a time , no doubt — it must have been before 1948 , when the United Kingdom itself abolished allegiance as the basis of citizenship — when the pretence of daughter monarchies around the globe was harmless and even arguably beneficial . |
| 9 | There was a time when rock journalists were easy to characterize or , at least , to caricature . |
| 10 | There was a time when five-star hotels were assumed to be better than four-star and so on down the line . |
| 11 | THERE was a time when the television variety spectacular threatened to take over popular entertainment completely , so that pantomime and seaside summer shows would be indistinguishable , all one poor man 's Palladium . |
| 12 | There was a time when he was forced to publish his own works , but now Arthur Barker has done him proud with Rugby League : An Illustrated History . |
| 13 | There was a time when a popular cocktail food was salame ( usually Danish ) rolled round a cream or cottage cheese filling to form a cornet . |
| 14 | There was a time when she was interested in their politics , their science , their inventions , when she considered herself a small part of the great adventure , until one day the feeling was born in her that she did not belong among them . |
| 15 | There was a time when I could have stocked a chemist 's shop with male toiletries ! |
| 16 | There was a time when he would n't have noticed it , but these days he was a little touchy about things like that , especially as Fran was now living with a man fourteen years younger . |
| 17 | In fact , the courts have progressively narrowed this species of manslaughter over the last century or so : there was a time when the mere commission of a tort or civil wrong sufficed as the ‘ unlawful act ’ , and when there was no additional requirement of ‘ dangerousness ’ to be satisfied . |
| 18 | There was a time when I 'd go to clubs , feel nothing , get a headache , and have to leave . |
| 19 | There was a time , let it ever be remembered , only about 400 years ago , when our fathers were ruled over and tyrannised and when men like Calvin , Knox , Cranmer , Ridley and Latimer broke rather than bend for the Gospel and liberty . |
| 20 | There was a time when I felt that the Free Church could present a broader appeal to the Protestant people , while there was greater harmony among the unionist parties as such . |
| 21 | There was a time years ago when I made the odd item of clothing and I have started designing stuff again now . |
| 22 | There was a time when sport benefited from hidden subsidies . |
| 23 | There was a time when The Thorn Birds was the craze . |
| 24 | There was a time when we might have hoped to educate our Disneyfodder to something better . |
| 25 | It is only too easy to forget that there was a time when the fragile flower of Glasgow culture might just as easily have been swept up by the great philistine scaffy man of indifference . |
| 26 | After all , there was a time when those who believed that abortion — by whatever means — should be legalised , were in a minority . |
| 27 | After Diocletian had surrendered power there was a time of confusion until Constantine the Great became Emperor in 324 . |
| 28 | There was a time , early in their days at Cambridge , when a brilliant and handsome research student from Yale made a determined pitch for Robyn , and she had been rather dazzled and excited by the experience ( he wooed her with a heady mixture of the latest post Freudian theoretical jargon and devastatingly frank sexual propositions , so she was never quite sure whether it was Lacan 's symbolic phallus he was referring to or his own real one ) . |
| 29 | According to Rupert Sutcliffe , the most senior member of the Department , and its most pertinacious gossip , there was a time not so long ago when Philip Swallow was for ever swanning around the globe on some conference jaunt or other . |
| 30 | There was a time when its readers expected the novel to inform or to instruct , to contribute to the definition of a direction for society . |