Example sentences of "[pron] be [art] time [Wh adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had occurred to Cecilia as soon as the words were out of her mouth that five minutes to twelve , which was the time when she had seen Jasper , was rather early for a lunch hour to begin . |
| 2 | Rarely in Rover 's history has there been a time when it has done so many things so well as now . |
| 3 | Has there been a time when someone has helped you to see the world in a different way ? |
| 4 | There 's a time when you have to strike hard at a decisive moment . ’ |
| 5 | Most of non-statutory work is giving advice to people like control , and others , which may not be purely statutory in the sense that is , but the major difference is there 's a time when it 's imposed on when we have to do it . |
| 6 | And there 's a time when my father lived at the , and I 'm going up the road this night and I hears this queer kind of grunting , and I could n't understand it of course it was dark and I hears it again . |
| 7 | There is a time when they are expected to be looked after by family , friends and neighbours because they are too overcome to cope by themselves . |
| 8 | We did , at the time , when the expenses were incurred , we gave it , that we were opposed to all the increases that were being made , we still maintain that policy , and I believe that there is a time when we should be be in approval , that we in fact , expending money on new active members is wrong , when in fact , have the cut backs , because at the end of the day , people of Lincolnshire have to pay for these additional expenses incurred to elected members . |
| 9 | ‘ There was a time when everyone hated Leeds . |
| 10 | you see Lord is here very splendidly to argue the case and at the moment I 'd like you to address the question , I 'll ask it again , the question is , I think it 's a simple one , it follows from your answer about why the brochures had to be updated , but when there was a time when they were not updated before nineteen eighty nine , there was a risk was n't there that with the brochures printing service charges towards the end of the sales period someone might have been mislead by the brochure ? that 's right is n't it ? |
| 11 | There was a time when they were only allowed to sing the last verse , not the first verse , because of this er very nationalistic erm , attitude that it portrayed . |
| 12 | There was a time when we might have hoped to educate our Disneyfodder to something better . |
| 13 | There was a time when we naively believed that it was caused by Immune Overload — too many stimulants and not enough rest and nutrition . |
| 14 | ‘ There was a time when we could look around at the Commonwealth , the Empire , other countries and we would see very soft markets for British exports . |
| 15 | There are n't two days go by though when I do n't think of him , because there was a time when we 'd play tennis four or five times a year . |
| 16 | Incredibly , there was a time when we liked to think that sophisticated tool use was an exclusively human domain . |
| 17 | And there was a time when one functioned better , of course . ’ |
| 18 | There was a time when its readers expected the novel to inform or to instruct , to contribute to the definition of a direction for society . |
| 19 | There was a time when it must have seemed to many of them that he would never receive a bad review , or even a cross word . |
| 20 | There was a time when it looked as if Mrs Thatcher would never go . |
| 21 | THERE was a time when it was easier to get a stockbroker to buy you lunch than to get him to give a sell recommendation for a share . |
| 22 | Well , there was a time when it was a bolt from the blue , yes , I mean I 've known for a week or two , but we were delighted to receive it , er we do n't er , it is something that we said months ago that we supported the N H S Lottery because we do feel that money can be raised in this way painlessly towards particularly research and the sorts of things that the N H S on the whole has never really supported fully . |
| 23 | ‘ There was a time when you could n't make jokes about Germans , but I think perhaps it 's becoming fashionable again . ’ |
| 24 | Now , you 're looking slim and lovely but , as the world knows , there was a time when you were n't quite as sylph-like ? |
| 25 | There was a time when you used to call me darling . |
| 26 | ‘ There was a time when you almost hated me that much , ’ he said flatly . |
| 27 | In fact , I do n't think there was a time when you ever did belong to me . ’ |
| 28 | There was a time when you and Adam were more than friends — ’ |
| 29 | There was a time when you could n't go through a week , perhaps could n't even going through a day , without hearing the British National Anthem somewhere . |
| 30 | There was a time when I could have stocked a chemist 's shop with male toiletries ! |