Example sentences of "time was [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court held that time was of the essence of the timetable . |
| 2 | And the only way of boiling the water at that time was on the stove in the house . |
| 3 | From now on time was on the side of the anti-coalitionists , for the approach of another election would eventually reopen the argument to their advantage . |
| 4 | Richard Baxter by this time was at the peak of his ability as a preacher . |
| 5 | Morning by morning in my regular reading , which at the time was in the Song of Songs , I heard the Lord calling me to a new stage in ministry . |
| 6 | After some enquiries from Peter Thomas , who at that time was in the process of forming the Skyfame Aircraft Museum at Staverton , Glos , the Swedish company decided to donate the Firefly to the Museum , providing that sufficient funds could be raised to finance the flight from Sweden to England . |
| 7 | In the initial phase of my fieldwork , my contacts were made through schools in the areas of Leytonstone ( in the borough of Waltham Forest ) and Catford ( which at that time was in the area of the Inner London Education Authority , now abolished ) . |
| 8 | My other main interest at that time was in the language of literature , leading to two papers published in 1965 and 1966 . |
| 9 | Armies chose these banks as suitable places for crossing the Rhine , and a particularly eventful time was around the end of the eighteenth century and the start of the next . |