Example sentences of "was [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to be made a deacon was for the first time to profess before a multitude that the soul undertook the cause of God in a special ministry , and for the first time to feel sent to an apostolic work . |
| 2 | In 1989 the global nature of the drift-net plague was for the first time widely recognised . |
| 3 | Lawrence Stone has put forward a highly influential argument that the eighteenth century saw the rise of the companionate marriage , and that affection between husband and wife was for the first time widely judged as important as economic considerations in marriage This argument has been widely challenged in relation to all classes by historians examining various kinds of evidence from the seventeenth century and earlier The belief that affection as an ideal of marriage was basically invented by the middle and upper classes in the eighteenth century has , however , led some critics into simplistic views . |
| 4 | The month began when the new lunar crescent was for the first time visible again after sunset . |
| 5 | During the Thirties when the streamlined fleet was introduced , the driver was for the first time provided with his own driving cab , complete with folding seat . |
| 6 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 7 | But when , after those two years , the valley had almost imperceptibly widened and there was for the first time , not those black enclosing cliffs , but the vista of a normal life , even of happiness , a landscape over which it was possible to believe the sun might shine , she had become unwittingly embroiled in the racial politics of her school . |
| 8 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |
| 9 | That weekend had been more strained than usual because Frances Shand Kydd — Earl Spencer 's former wife , and mother of his four children — was for the first time under the same roof as Raine . |
| 10 | In 1888 it was for the first time possible to go by train the whole way from Constantinople to Calais , and the Trans-Siberian railway was completed in 1904 . |
| 11 | Although Japan was for the first time in a dominant position vis-à-vis China , the problem of disputed influence in Korea remained . |
| 12 | This poor soul , pallid and puffy on his bed after desperate vomiting , sick and quiet and unregarded ever since , spent and ulcered mind and spirit by what he had so mistakenly undertaken , Jerome was for the first time wholly pitiful . |
| 13 | By 1988 Britain was for the first time selling more to the EEC than to the rest of the world ( £47 billion out of £93.5 billion at 1991 prices ) . |
| 14 | The first two rounds of voting — in north Lebanon and the Bekaa on Aug. 23 , and in Beirut and Mount Lebanon on Aug. 30 — produced some wins for Hezbollah , an Islamic group aligned with Syrian policy-making which was for the first time participating in elections as a parliamentary party . |
| 15 | But at the conference it was for the first time agreed to allow the constituency parties to elect their own separate representatives to the National Executive , and this at once led to the appearance in this category of Sir Stafford Cripps , Professor Harold Laski and D. N. Pritt — all advocates of close collaboration with the Communist Party , and Pritt indistinguishable from an actual card-carrying member . |
| 16 | Still , the need for a specific and general science of society ( as distinct from the various relevant special disciplines already dealing with human affairs ) was for the first time seriously felt . |
| 17 | The original deal was for the same time and same sum , but the difference now is that the new contract covers rugby only for the age bracket between 16 and 18 . |
| 18 | I 've even seen Bruce Springsteen having to explain who he was for the tenth time in one record company reception . |
| 19 | When Mellor joined colleagues for yesterday 's Cabinet meeting , he knew it was for the last time . |
| 20 | Whatever he wore he looked marvellous in , and Fran 's heart tripped alarmingly as she appreciated how attractive he was for the umpteenth time . |
| 21 | It was about the only time Ken opened up about his feelings about living in Farley Court by himself . |
| 22 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 23 | Luckily , that was about the same time that my mother and father bought me a radio , and all my other interests just disappeared once I had that … |
| 24 | Well the County made certificates for the Polytechnic phase two student hostels off John Garne Way , er that actually for phase one was about the last time they got an award at all , and er the panel were very pleased with those , they said they had a nice community feel , and yet the occupants had some privacy , they thought they , and they were pleased to see how well phase one had weathered as well . |
| 25 | I saw it happen with Jaco Pastorius — I know what it was like the first time I heard him . |
| 26 | It was like the first time she 'd seen him , just after Peter had introduced her as his fiancée . |
| 27 | It was like the other time . |
| 28 | Ian Spiro was a novice in this league but still acted like he was in the big time , joining Lomas Santa Fe Country Club where membership costs ‘ tens of thousands ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ If you have no objection , I 'd like to know where everyone was at the critical time . |
| 30 | Those observations were applicable to the present case : the appellant was at the present time a dangerous young man for whom a determinate sentence was not appropriate . |