Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [art] time [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | These years were more a time of disturbance within the Church as Archbishop Theodore sought to reorganize its diocesan structure . |
| 2 | Early March was scarcely the time of year for pleasure-sailing , but the young women insisted on going along ; and wrapping up warmly , they went down to the harbour and found fishermen to row them out in one of their high-prowed cobles . |
| 3 | This was not a time for tears . |
| 4 | It was not a time for students of the world to ponder the great matters of global history , to care about the great beyond , to notice the unleashing of distant energies . |
| 5 | He was right , of course , this was not a time for love . |
| 6 | It was not a time of inaction , for there was plenty to be done . |
| 7 | This was not the time for prayer . |
| 8 | Now was not the time for emotion , but for logic . |
| 9 | Snizort thought that this was probably the time of day that the Beastline enjoyed best ; supping at the long oak table , making plans to regain Tara , drinking spiced wine or mead . |
| 10 | But it was also a time of exhaustion and tension as I desperately hurtled between work , father and family ; and of sorrow to see him suffering . |
| 11 | The whole story is complicated by the fact that this was also the time of break-up of the supercontinent Pangaea . |
| 12 | I think that 's what Priest , I mean I do n't know , Priest probably has a whole history of how he got is Esquire style , but Vincent went over there and had something to do with it , and I really think that taking the old style stuff and giving it a new spin helped , and the difference between what we 're doing and what the California crowd was doing — and this was also the time of punk rock — was that we were using traditional typefaces and they were |
| 13 | The last time I was going out seriously was around the time of Shoom , which was very exciting . |
| 14 | It was around the time of Eric Verrico 's disappearance that the three Bernard brothers — Bruce , Oliver and Jeffrey — came into Minton 's life . |
| 15 | ‘ Anyway it was n't a time for painting pictures , Little Father . ’ |
| 16 | But it was n't the time for secrets , or the place . |
| 17 | Dana nodded sulkily and Claudia could have slapped her ; this was n't the time for Dana to hold centre stage . |
| 18 | There was almost no time of day when we could be together alone . |
| 19 | There was never a time in Sir Hector Laing 's life when it ever occurred to him to work for any other company than the family business , originally called McVitie $ Price and now known as United Biscuits . |