Example sentences of "was [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a Michaelmas Day or at least the old erm Quarter Day for paying rents and erm it was generally known in those days as muck spreading because erm it was usual time for erm , the farm workers to get ready for the winter ploughing . |
| 2 | It may seem harsh to criticize the Labour government for its inner-urban Policy at the end of the 1970s — there was little time for the introduction of a comprehensive programme of action towards the cities before the political realities of the 1979 election . |
| 3 | There was little time for dalliance when we came out from Sunday School as I was expected to be home for tea at half-past four . |
| 4 | Over the next few days , as the rush to load the Broompark became more frantic , there was little time for anything except work . |
| 5 | There was little time for thinking as they progressed lower down this new valley . |
| 6 | It was that time of year when England began to prepare for the Guy Fawkes celebrations of 5 November . |
| 7 | But there was not a sound : it was that time in the afternoon when Mrs Prynn was down in the village , Sir Gregory and Amyas were at their books , and the ladies in their chambers . |
| 8 | It was high time for a fresh interpretation . |
| 9 | It was high time for Benjamin to get married then — he had waited long enough . |
| 10 | It was high time for practical things , it was time to get a job . |
| 11 | When Harriet once again saw her daughter off at Penzance station it was this time with a sense of relief . |
| 12 | That was some time during the early part of the morning . |
| 13 | It was some time since Lilian 's birth . |
| 14 | As the next moonless period was in early March , there was some time for reorganization , and with the Eighth Army dug in defensively along the Gazala line there was no major offensive in the offing . |
| 15 | It was some time after making his first confession that he bumped into a pupil in Addison 's Walk . |
| 16 | It was some time after the construction of the capital 's tramway system , and it may well be that the true origins of the tale lay in a superstitious dread of this foreign technology . |
| 17 | He had been a reporter then and it was some time after their first meeting that he had begun his campaign to highlight the plight of the poor . |
| 18 | It was some time after ten o'clock that I strolled through the gate on to the terrace . |
| 19 | This incident was some time after the Red Sand Towers had been used as a pirate radio station ( Radio 390 ) . |
| 20 | It was some time after eleven when noises were made about turning in , though as everyone stood up , to her surprise , though not anyone else 's , Travis said he was n't ready for bed yet and was going out . |
| 21 | Literally translated , Vogelsang means ‘ bird song ’ , but it was some time before the dawn chorus when the Squadron Sergeant Major bawled out the orders for reveille . |
| 22 | It was some time before the fashion magazines and newspapers started to write about this street culture , but when THE FACE wrote a big feature on the subject in its July 1983 issue the floodgates opened . |
| 23 | The city was in mourning for Marie-Thérèse de Bourbon ( first wife of the Dauphin Louis ) and it was some time before the prospect of playing at court arose . |
| 24 | Assuming that the start of the current recession ( which on January 2nd was officially acknowledged , at last ) was some time in October , investors can look forward to the Dow tumbling to 1,800 by the late autumn of 1991 . |
| 25 | The Professor , he tells us , was some time in making his appearance , but suddenly the noise and bustle of conversation were stopped by his entrance . |
| 26 | But more likely it was some time in London . |
| 27 | ‘ This all needed careful sorting , particularly the contents of the deed boxes , and with little space available , it was some time in 1925 before the job was complete . |
| 28 | ‘ I think it was some time in the seventies , ’ said Ken . |
| 29 | Ken commented earlier that er er prior to the Financial Services Act coming into force which I think was some time in nineteen eighty-eight , the er D T I was responsible and there come back to the D T I if these sort of things had applied and er compensation effectively by the D T I for mal-administration or whatever so that er say we do n't pretend to be pension experts , so any retrospection that I would suggest might well be appropriate as at the date of the Financial Services Act becoming into force . |
| 30 | Well , originally er I was involved in er registration , because there , with this very loose connection with the registrar , by now I was full time with the council , as rating assistant and rent collector . |