Example sentences of "in [adj] time [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is argued that this difference may be partially accounted for by the higher standard of living in Sri Lanka , but also that the motives and social composition of offenders in normal times were such that depressed economic conditions did not necessarily lead to substantial increases in criminal activities . |
| 2 | His most serious offence in that time was taking part in a robbery while armed with a crossbow . |
| 3 | But in Germany in 1933 times were hard , even for well-qualified young men just out of university . |
| 4 | Among the artisans who contributed to Aarau 's fame in medieval times were the gunsmiths , swordsmiths , cutlers and bell-founders . |
| 5 | The practice in medieval times was to house all of the grain crops in the barn , using ricks as a last resort only when the barns were full . |
| 6 | Attached to the Palace at Hailing in medieval times was the Bishop 's or Church Prison , mainly used for detaining those accused of lesser crimes such as debt and was probably no more than a cell or a building without windows but lit from a small skylight . |
| 7 | Historic Carmarthen holds a special place in Welsh history and in Roman times was one of only two fortress towns in the Principality . |
| 8 | She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter : |
| 9 | A mutation that became popular in Victorian times was called the ‘ Moss Rose ’ because of a minute thorny , moss-like growth that forms on and around the bud scales , in some cases very heavily , and which is coloured . |
| 10 | It takes three generations to make a gentleman , they say ; but the sons and daughters of impoverished immigrants into London in Victorian times were only one remove from their humble roots elsewhere — every reason , therefore , to collect around themselves the trappings of grandeur . |
| 11 | Perhaps a third of first births in Victorian times were so conceived . |
| 12 | A source of silver much exploited in early times was lead sulphide , most notably galena , containing varying proportions of silver . |
| 13 | Another stone much favoured in early times was turquoise , an opaque phosphate of aluminium which derives its sky-blue colour from traces of copper . |
| 14 | But further heroics in extra time were beyond their weary limbs and so Stuart Pearce , the Forest captain required by England for next week 's World Cup tie in Poland , completed a victorious return from injury . |
| 15 | Aye in extra time was it not ? |
| 16 | A question that puzzled some followers of Zarathustra in later times was that , if Ohrmazd was all-powerful and so destined to overthrow Ahriman , why did this not happen immediately , so that the world would have been spared all the suffering caused by the conflict between them ? |
| 17 | The deceased then became " he who has gone to his Ka " , which in Ptolemaic times were applied to the god and the king and which wee enumerated as strength , might , prosperity , food , veneration , eternity , radiance , glory , fame , magic , authority , sight , hearing , and perception . |
| 18 | Perhaps the biggest event in recent times was in the 1950s when a film company made the church the setting for the film Lease of Life with Robert Donat . |
| 19 | One of the most unusual cases of assault to come out of Hollywood in recent times was the allegation brought by manager Marie Pastor against The Karate Kid star Ralph Macchio . |
| 20 | One of the more memorable interventions of the Minister for the Economy in recent times was this : |
| 21 | It may even be that at no one moment in mid-Silurian times was limestone being deposited throughout the region concerned . |
| 22 | Like most villages , Lund in past times was much more self-sufficient than it is now , with its own grocers , shoemakers , tailors and the like and , during the 19th century , a second public house , the Speed the Plough . |