Example sentences of "[was/were] the [adj] time [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the second time the teacher-turned-comic had been hit by car vandals . |
| 2 | The Olympic cricket match was the only time the sport has actually been played at the Olympics , but an England Test captain . |
| 3 | This was the first time a company had been invited to give a product demonstration at the centre and were keen to present the merits of their product . |
| 4 | A man accused of raping his wife has been cleared by a jury at Sheffield Crown Court ; it was the first time a man in England had been charged with such an offence . |
| 5 | It was the first time a man in England has been charged with such an offence . |
| 6 | It has been suggested that this was the first time a summer pavilion had been adapted from a Greek temple . |
| 7 | It was the first time the brewer had advertised on TV and the landmark was not lost on Guinness . |
| 8 | That was the first time the Hound appeared , my sons . |
| 9 | This year was the first time the competition had taken place in England . |
| 10 | It was the first time the church authorities had discussed the issue of the refugees , some 25,000 of whom have entered Hungary from the south over the past year . |
| 11 | It was the first time the monarch had ever used a Thames passenger ferry — and one of the few occasions when she had arrived at an official engagement by public transport in the UK . |
| 12 | It was the first time the state 's highest court had debated the point and was widely welcomed by accountants . |
| 13 | It was the first time the company has been prosecuted for a hygiene offence . |
| 14 | Did n't Cloughie get done for doing something similar a few years ago when he chinned the Forest fan who 'd run on the pitch ( later kissed him but brought out one of the all-time commentators classics from Greavesie when he said ‘ It was the first time the shit really had hit the fan ’ ) . |
| 15 | This was the first time the impunity of the police had been challenged in Guatemala . |
| 16 | This was the first time the meeting had been held in Asia , and representatives of the 25 American countries participating — including Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori , who was of Japanese parentage — reportedly regarded the meeting as an important forum for encouraging Japanese trade and investment links with the region . |
| 17 | It was the first time the Communicator of the Year presentation had left London and the first time it had been staged as part of the annual convention . |
| 18 | This was the first time the phrase Scenic Land Cruise had been used by a train operator — but it certainly was not the last . |
| 19 | Philip Head , Chief Executive of the WDA , said it was the first time the agency had been asked to source Welsh suppliers for a company based in Germany and resulted directly from the WDA campaign to build business links with the motor regions of Europe . |
| 20 | It was the first time the 25-year-old has been able to speak about her ordeal since she was found early on Friday morning after being abducted from near a disco in south Dublin . |
| 21 | It was the first time the city had unseated an incumbent mayor since 1943 . |
| 22 | It was the third time the boy had tried to get past him , and , as before , he seemed surprised by the old man 's quickness ; shocked that , whichever way he moved , Tuan Ti Fo was there , blocking his way . |
| 23 | It was the third time the hospital had applied for a government grant for the unit . |
| 24 | He must be more patient and brace himself up to realise that he was the only person who could tackle the present chaotic state of affairs , ' This was the fourth time the King had told MacDonald that he would not accept his resignation . |
| 25 | Erm there was the whole time a sense of anxiety about him . |
| 26 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |
| 27 | When was the last time the game 's robber barons made a decision of their own free will to improve the lot of the supporter ? |