Example sentences of "was the [adj] time [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the second time the teacher-turned-comic had been hit by car vandals . |
| 2 | ( Incidentally , this was the only time the Irish question was raised in the entire campaign . |
| 3 | The Olympic cricket match was the only time the sport has actually been played at the Olympics , but an England Test captain . |
| 4 | It was the first time a hurdling dog had broken a flat record but trainer Paddy Hancox was not surprised . |
| 5 | It has been suggested that this was the first time a summer pavilion had been adapted from a Greek temple . |
| 6 | Some authorities maintained that it was the first time a single drug had been shown to be useful in controlling psychotic patients . |
| 7 | This was the first time a Social Work Department in Scotland had come under such public fire for the same reasons . |
| 8 | It was the first time a Moslem mosque had been firebombed in Britain during a wave of violence against Asian places of worship . |
| 9 | It was the first time a traditional bank had diversified into the instalment finance business . |
| 10 | The Commission , in setting the level of the fine , took into account , as it had with the shipping fine , the fact that this was the first time a fine had been imposed in this particular sector . |
| 11 | This was the first time a fully operational power plant had been decommissioned . |
| 12 | This was the first time a company had been invited to give a product demonstration at the centre and were keen to present the merits of their product . |
| 13 | A man accused of raping his wife has been cleared by a jury at Sheffield Crown Court ; it was the first time a man in England had been charged with such an offence . |
| 14 | It was the first time a man in England has been charged with such an offence . |
| 15 | This was the first time the phrase Scenic Land Cruise had been used by a train operator — but it certainly was not the last . |
| 16 | It was the first time the church authorities had discussed the issue of the refugees , some 25,000 of whom have entered Hungary from the south over the past year . |
| 17 | It was the first time the state 's highest court had debated the point and was widely welcomed by accountants . |
| 18 | It was the first time the bishops had met following last November 's historic vote by the Church of England 's General Synod in favour of women 's ordination as priests . |
| 19 | This was the first time the impunity of the police had been challenged in Guatemala . |
| 20 | It was the first time the two men had met ; they briefly discussed the dangerous yet promising situation in the east and then retired to their beds . |
| 21 | In 1655 an expedition was sent out to attack Hispaniola ( San Domingo ) ; this was the first time the English government had sent a naval expedition to seize the colonies of another European nation , and lack of experience led to lack of success . |
| 22 | It was the first time the Worthingtons had ever taken their baby on a train journey … and it broke down just 15 minutes out of Waterloo . |
| 23 | That was the first time the Hound appeared , my sons . |
| 24 | It was the first time the old coldness had returned . |
| 25 | It was the first time the Communicator of the Year presentation had left London and the first time it had been staged as part of the annual convention . |
| 26 | This was the first time the meeting had been held in Asia , and representatives of the 25 American countries participating — including Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori , who was of Japanese parentage — reportedly regarded the meeting as an important forum for encouraging Japanese trade and investment links with the region . |
| 27 | It was the first time the two leaders had met since Syria 's mid-July agreement to participate in the conference . |
| 28 | It was the first time the city had unseated an incumbent mayor since 1943 . |
| 29 | It was the first time the FIS had claimed responsibility for a violent incident . |
| 30 | He rose from his chair and held out his hand , as if this was the first time the two of them had met . |