Example sentences of "that was [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was a time when civilization |
| 2 | That was a time for rejoicing and oaths of loyalty ; but now every man was called on to help decide the future of the clan . |
| 3 | In the spring , he had to have a heart by-pass operation , and that was a time of anxiety and distress . |
| 4 | That was a time of great Soviet confidence and influence , buttressed by military massiveness . |
| 5 | That was a time when a foreign passport offered little defence against arbitrary injustice from the authorities , and the very mention of the Avant-garde artists ' names incurred the risk of repression . |
| 6 | That was a time when young and old had thronged the streets to welcome in a new century and , though anything with the 1800s about it was already as dead as history , it still took some years before the magical 19 in the date lost its strangeness and one would write it without a slight hesitation . |
| 7 | That was a time when the proudest moment of Denis 's young life had been being brought by his mother to Fitzgerald 's Park to see his father , brave and bold and handsome in his dress uniform , standing firmly to attention with his company as His Majesty King Edward VII — who seemed to Denis like a huge teapot with his cigar puffing steam like a spout — and Queen Alexandra moved sedately among the flower displays at the Great Cork Exhibition . |
| 8 | That was a time for peat fires and firelit talk , with the wind a symphony to set stories to . |
| 9 | That was a time and a half , I can tell you . |
| 10 | No we could n't say nothing because I mean that was a time when you had a good job then , unemployment was just the same in the nineteen thirties . |
| 11 | That was a time when many popular musicians , and some ‘ early ’ musicians , regarded the instruments of the entire world as their province . |
| 12 | I doubt that anything like this would have happened in the Revie days , that was a time that Leeds were truly considered champions and it was Leeds that would be doing the ‘ poaching ’ of players as such . |
| 13 | Well okay , that was a time she 'd been camping in the Lake District , Mrs did . |
| 14 | That was the time when there was a clamour to release the dogs of war and to send out Mrs Thatcher with a fully-loaded handbag . |
| 15 | And if ever I thought it , that was the time that I thought that Mother knew what she was singing about . |
| 16 | That was the time when I stood in all that fluid with my boots on , a priceless carpet under my feet , hounds never seen on the earth before lying still and obedient before me , staring out of that maternal portico with its flanking columns , down the long avenue of limes that lead to birth , life and Arcadia . |
| 17 | If I was going to make a change , that was the time to do it . ’ |
| 18 | Surely that was the time to attack us ? |
| 19 | And that was the time when this was all done . |
| 20 | That was the time I started to get used to the place , to the screws and things like that , because some had seen me before . |
| 21 | And it just seemed that that was the time to give up the tenancy . |
| 22 | Anyway that 's what that was the time when I was sea sick , when we come across the channel . |
| 23 | That was the time when you did the fancy things on the top , aye . |
| 24 | That was the time — and Rosen remembers it with obvious affection — when the spirit in schools was high , when teachers enjoyed opening school books , running book and reading clubs , and staying late after the bell to do so . |
| 25 | And that was the time to shoot them . |
| 26 | You 're too young to remember , but that was the time of austerity . |
| 27 | That was the time when Freud was exploring just the id . |
| 28 | Yes , we had drivers that had to do sort of timed deliveries or whatever in the morning , and they , so basically that was the time . |
| 29 | Ah , that was the time we had a spring flu epidemic . |
| 30 | That was the time of the disruption . |