Example sentences of "[verb] [be] a time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must have been a time when each of these practices ceased to be tolerable and reasonable behaviour . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They were reluctant to believe that there could ever have been a time when the Universe had not looked much like it is today . |
| 6 | There must have been a time when we did n't quarrel , when we were just content to be together . |
| 7 | I suppose there must have been a time when it was n't like this ? ’ |
| 8 | Certainly , if there was a degree of hostility to the Danes in London the anniversary of Ælfheah 's death on 19 April would have been a time when feelings ran particularly high , for Cnut 's England was clearly conscious of anniversaries of recent events , as awareness of the dates of the battle of Assandun in 1016 and the death of Edmund Ironside indicates . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was years since he 'd been there , but there had been a time when he 'd gone every week , sometimes twice . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There had been a time when Julius Landor could reduce her to a whimpering wreck , when his slow-burning but frightening temper roused itself to life . |
| 15 | There had been a time when she had thought of going with Roman and dreamed of dancing held tightly in his arms , but now she doubted she would go at all . |
| 16 | There had been a time when , like everyone else at the school , she had said she wanted to be a professional dancer , or an actress , or anything else that was exciting and totally different from working in a bank or being a dairy farmer 's wife . |
| 17 | There was a feeling there had been a time when you needed both , but for the future it would help in general , and offer much better leadership if you were to create one body , and since you 're statutorily obliged to have a J C C , why not make it , actually make it work , so it meets more often , and it actually actively involves erm , er , er , er , at the political level , players at the political level . |
| 18 | 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 . |