Example sentences of "time it [was/were] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 This time it was widely recognised that a change in policy was necessary if it was to be achieved .
2 At one time it was widely believed that there had been a great rise in the birth-rate ; there was , in fact , a slow rise to the end of the 1861–70 decade , after which the rate began to fall .
3 At the time it was widely believed that Sugar would not be returning to operational flying , as the following press release issued at the time seemed to indicate :
4 At the time it was widely forecast that if the Lords ' experiment was a success the Commons would be forced to follow suit .
5 At the time it was widely held that the early parts of the visual system acted like a closed-circuit television , with the eye acting as the camera and the visual cortex acting as the TV monitor .
6 Although it later transpired that the RSSPCC were contracted by the Social Work Department to remove and question the South Ronaldsay children , at the time it was generally understood that Orkney 's own social workers were mainly involved .
7 By this time it was generally considered that the forests were anachronistic and unprofitable .
8 Quite often the form was outdated by the time it was finally authorized and the clerks would tell the luckless petitioner to start all over again .
9 At a later time it was even decreed that should there be no male ( in particular a father ) available to sever the foreskin and make the blood flow , then the child should wait until he had grown up and then perform the operation himself .
10 At the time it was genuinely believed that he was a significant factor in the unsatisfactory World Cup performance .
11 At that time it was still believed that Mercury did keep the same face to the Sun , and therefore this temperature was used to support the idea that Mercury had an atmosphere , because such an atmosphere would transport heat around from the Sun-facing side , thus raising the night-side temperature .
12 Course that was only time it was ever fired because it was , it had caused that much disturbance and disruption with the gun .
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