Example sentences of "[pron] be [prep] one time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was at one time er the ph printer Not the photographer but the printer for erm a free hand out paper called the Islander . |
| 2 | Oh , I only pay dutiful visits now , ’ Rose went on , ‘ but I was at one time very frequently here . |
| 3 | Seventeen add this big number here which is minus one times whatever we 've got in here minus one times ten , what will that give us ? |
| 4 | Their work bears witness both to the power of partnership and to the powers of expression which we feel able to attribute to groups , to some circle of friends or literary ‘ school ’ — in this case , the group which was at one time drunkenly designated the scholarship boys , angry young men or hypergamists of the Fifties . |
| 5 | Mr Holmes a Court has trimmed his Dalgety stake which was at one time nearer 5.8 per cent . |
| 6 | A farming community , existing as a hamlet in ancient times , it probably developed its agricultural resources to fit in with Kilham , which was at one time the chief market town in this part of the East Riding . |
| 7 | Born in 1864 , she was at one time wooed by the future Kaiser William but instead married the Russian Grand Duke Sergei , assassinated by anarchists in 1905 . |
| 8 | Though his name does not appear , it was written by William Crowe ( 1745–1829 ) , who was at one time rector of Stoke Abbott in Dorset . |
| 9 | She was the daughter of a scientist who was at one time Deputy Master of the Mint . |
| 10 | In addition to her painting , Fleur Cowles who was at one time associate editor of look magazine and editor-in-chief of Flair — is the author of several books , including an authorised biography of Salvador Dali . |
| 11 | ‘ We were at one time , ’ said Doctor Lanyon . |
| 12 | There were at one time a number of city-states , each with its own god . |
| 13 | There were at one time , as the hon. Member for Ilford , South said , rumours that the TA could be cut to almost 55,000 or 50,000 . |
| 14 | There was at one time a kind of folk-tale relating to this game in Suffolk . |
| 15 | But , like its relatives in Devon , the Sussex has remained largely confined to its own region in spite of its potential , though it was at one time more widely used in several English counties as a draught animal . |
| 16 | It was at one time in the library of Darcy Lever Hall , Bolton and in the 1930s it was rescued from a junk furniture shop in Kent . |
| 17 | On the spiritual side it was at one time also considered self-evident that the Russians , adherence to the Christian religion put them automatically on a higher plane than the heathen , raw-flesh-eating ‘ savages ’ . |
| 18 | Certainly , it was at one time essential for certain musical movements to be of a precise length , for otherwise the dancers of gavottes and minuets would find themselves in sorry confusion . |
| 19 | Indeed it was at one time believed that the advent of the railways had signalled the end of the movement of live meat . |
| 20 | It was at one time said that statutes were drafted in such a way as to be intelligible only to lawyers . |
| 21 | I 'm sure it was at one time . |
| 22 | Yes , it is difficult to believe that before Sly Stallone was blasting out showers of bullets , he was at one time more likely to be seen wielding a pair of scissors and blowing hot and cold with a hairdryer . |
| 23 | A liberal unionist , he was at one time president of the Ulster Liberal Unionist Association and a member of the committee of the Ulster Reform Club . |
| 24 | Also among those released was Aleke Banda , a former secretary-general of the ruling Malawi Congress Party ( MCP ) who had been detained for 12 years without charge ; he was at one time considered to be the heir-apparent of the ageing President Hastings Banda . |
| 25 | Living on chalk is a mixed blessing , on the one hand the cement industry provides work for many local people and with the mechanisation of farming methods this has meant that what was at one time an agriculture community is now largely dependant upon local industries . |