Example sentences of "[pron] [be] a time [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a time when the young eyes were slow , |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There was a time when The Thorn Birds was the craze . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There was a time when the rich world seemed to understand its ethical duty to the poor of the earth . |
| 7 | THERE was a time when the rich and famous would announce the arrival of a new family member with a discreet notice in The Times . |
| 8 | Skipper Kim Barnett tells me : ‘ There was a time when the opposition used to like me out of the way quickly because I had a reputation for getting after the bowling . |
| 9 | It is marked out not just by virtuosity and weight of tone ( there was a time when the Leningrad Philharmonic could have supplied front-desk players to virtually every other top-class orchestra in the world ) but also by an astonishing unity of expressive purpose . |
| 10 | To be sure , there was a time when the Party had hoped to recruit large numbers of keen and politically sophisticated young members , and thereby change the YCs from a social club into a political movement . |
| 11 | There was a time when the soil nexus held the promise of unifying physical and human geography . |
| 12 | There was a time when the humble pedicab driver was the symbol of the hard-working migrant who left the village for the bright lights of Jakarta . |
| 13 | There was a time when the Firefly locomotive class was the pride of the Great Western Railway . |
| 14 | ‘ We admit there was a time when the North-East service was among the worst in the country in terms of reliability but we have had a massive turnaround of fortune . ’ |
| 15 | There was a time when the provisionals sought to ride both horses simultaneously , fighting elections and plotting murder . |
| 16 | Mr Major then angrily turned on Labour leader John Smith : ‘ There was a time when the leader of the Opposition once said that he had always believed that Britain 's future lay in Europe , and we must take a confident and leading role in the Community . |
| 17 | It 's a time when the Chancellor of the Exchequer must put Britain first and the Prime Minister 's private prejudices and the good of the Tory party second . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But it was a time when the boy and his mother , who lived in a little cottage just outside the town , had to earn their living from growing their own vegetables and doing what they could to help other people in order to make a living . |
| 20 | It was a time when the builder carried a Filofax and the client a pocketful of nails . |