Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] time [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , Clary did appear without make-up in a photograph in Time Out a few years ago . |
| 2 | To consider that matter at a point of time when the child has been placed under protection for several weeks , first by a place of safety order and then by one or more interim care orders , would , as pointed out by Bush J. in M. v. Westminster City Council [ 1985 ] F.L.R. 325 , 340 , defeat the purpose of Parliament . |
| 3 | The clinical interview provided information about the severity and diagnosis of disorders , but also enabled researchers to measure onset and course using a concept of change-points : a point in time when an increase or decrease in the number of symptoms led to a noticeable change in a woman 's psychiatric state . |
| 4 | By contrast , the legends concerning Atlantis and the others refer to a period of time only a few thousand years ago . |
| 5 | And it was only a matter of time when the truth came out . |
| 6 | In both projective and reactive uses , however , the infinitive expresses an actualized contingent event and the impression of contingency implies a reference to a position in time when the infinitive 's event was not a reality ( i.e. before its actualization ) , so that the term " reactive " is no more appropriate here than in the canonical uses of the " infinitive of reaction " as a description of the meaning of the to infinitive . |