Example sentences of "been a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The professionalized academic critic wanted to forget that there had been a time when criticism was part of literature ; and the belief that criticism or theory could be literature in themselves was perhaps part of the process of exorcizing other values and attitudes . |
| 2 | There had been a time , a brief time , a glorious dawn , when despite her growing awareness of her own sexual failure , despite her anger and frustration , despite her own laziness and lack of commitment , there had been a time when she had been happy and hopeful and joyous . |
| 3 | There had been a time , a brief time , a glorious dawn , when despite her growing awareness of her own sexual failure , despite her anger and frustration , despite her own laziness and lack of commitment , there had been a time when she had been happy and hopeful and joyous . |
| 4 | There must have been a time before Fenna , just as there must have been a time before words , but Maggie can not not conceive of either . |
| 5 | There must have been a time before Fenna , just as there must have been a time before words , but Maggie can not not conceive of either . |
| 6 | If they have been able to discuss things with the person who is dying , if there has been a time of preparation , then the shock of facing the loss caused by death is perhaps not so great . |
| 7 | It was years since he 'd been there , but there had been a time when he 'd gone every week , sometimes twice . |
| 8 | There has never been a time , it seems , when the world has been so dominated by the politics of nationalism . |
| 9 | As Henry watched her retreating buttocks , grinding out yet another dismissal , he tried to remember if there had ever been a time , years ago , when he had desired her . |
| 10 | These two hundred and thirty miles on the road should have been a time for strengthening bonds and for unifying our resolve , but I felt continually at cross-purposes with him . |
| 11 | There has never been a time more conscious of chronological age than our own . |
| 12 | There must have been a time when each of these practices ceased to be tolerable and reasonable behaviour . |
| 13 | For example , his eyes were necessary for the finding of food and the locating of enemies , to name but two of many purely necessary functions , but there must have been a time when he first began to enjoy the visual beauty all around him . |
| 14 | Rarely in Rover 's history has there been a time when it has done so many things so well as now . |
| 15 | There had been a time in the seventh century when Anglo-Saxon kings with many men 's death on their consciences went to Rome to die in penitential garb . |
| 16 | As the protagonist in Kafka 's Conversation with a Suppliant confessed : ‘ There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive . ’ |
| 17 | Yet there has never been a time when the British people were more in need of a vigilant and free Press . |
| 18 | ‘ Our message is that there has never been a time like this to pick up a bargain , ’ a spokeswoman said . |
| 19 | Nothing very dramatic here , then , but at least he was in the buying and selling game , not a wage slave , and there can hardly have been a time when it was not easier to sell the odd pork chop or two than it was to convince an employer that he ought to buy your skills as a craftsman . |
| 20 | There would have been a time when most small city streets would have come clearly within the jurisdiction of one parish ; nothing so simple for Brunswick Place — it lay within the civil parish of St Leonards , the municipal ward of Hoxton New Town , the parliamentary borough of Hackney , the urban sanitary district of Hoxton , and the ecclesiastical parish of St John 's . |
| 21 | There has never been a time when women were not interested in politics … |
| 22 | The innocent words suddenly filled me with horror : there had been a time before I was born , a time when I had not existed , a time when I lacked individual consciousness — this last being the most horrifying notion . |
| 23 | They were reluctant to believe that there could ever have been a time when the Universe had not looked much like it is today . |
| 24 | There 's never been a time when you 've nearly split up ? |
| 25 | Young adults living with relatives The early years of marriage traditionally have been a time when people did live with relatives , before establishing their own household , although this is now less common than it once was . |
| 26 | At what should have been a time to reflect on a most successful campaign to unite both Church and public in defence of fundamental Christian belief , Mrs Whitehouse was ‘ rocked ’ by the breaking of another controversy . |
| 27 | There has never been a time in economic history when comparative advantage was less static . |
| 28 | There would have been a time for such a word . |
| 29 | There had been a time when he had been with the then desired Jenny in the back of a car on the moor at Goathland . |
| 30 | There had been a time when she had stared from Crowe 's knee , before Crowe 's study fire , out at Alexander on the Long Royston terrace . |