Example sentences of "be a time [Wh adv] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 There must have been a time when we did n't quarrel , when we were just content to be together .
2 There had never been a time when they had not wrangled , and yet after his fashion he was fond of her .
3 There has never been a time when our farmers have been more fearful of the future .
4 Has there been a time when someone has helped you to see the world in a different way ?
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 There 's never been a time when you 've nearly split up ?
9 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 .
10 It was years since he 'd been there , but there had been a time when he 'd gone every week , sometimes twice .
11 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 .
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 Rarely in Rover 's history has there been a time when it has done so many things so well as now .
14 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 .
15 I suppose there must have been a time when it was n't like this ? ’
16 If there had ever been a time when it had been a whim and not an obligation , that time was gone now ; the thing was there waiting for him , blocking his path , and there was no way round it to his manhood .
17 For some families breakfast can be a time when they are on a very short fuse and tensions abound , so if you can persuade her to have hers on a tray in bed , many problems may be avoided .
18 We do n't even have sex on holiday , when from what some of my friends with young children say , that seems to be a time when they catch up .
19 In many cases , people owe money to a number of creditors and like Jeff , they do n't think there 'll be a time when they ca n't pay their debts .
20 1993 could well be a time when you can no longer put up with frustrating dead-ends .
21 I believe that there was never a time when you did n't exist and will never be a time when you cease to exist .
22 But it just did n't seem to be a time when you could er get an entry .
23 In a country where infant mortality is low , it is expected that children will live into adulthood and outlive their parents , so that there will not be a time when it seems likely that a child will die before their parents .
24 There er there used to be a time when it was fairly easy to predict what Tory motions would say .
25 I mean it 's , there must be a time when it settles .
26 They 've er they 've done fairly well there with Perhaps if it 's happen to be a time when I 'm busy Richard you might do it as vice chairman .
27 There can never be a time when there was a greater need for UK companies to find new markets .
28 ‘ I take it , then , ’ said Iago Vaughan slowly , ‘ since there may be a time when there 'll be little leisure for persuasion .
29 Quiet , steady and composed , Gavin was an ideal partner for skipper Jim Cannon at the heart of the Palace defence and , if the early '80s were a time when our back four was often under a lot of pressure , Gavin played his part in Palace 's revival at the end of the decade although , in spite of skippering our successful 1988–89 side for a few matches mid-season , he incurred yet another injury and was prevented from playing in all but the final three games .
30 There 's a time when you have to strike hard at a decisive moment . ’
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