Example sentences of "the time was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should be going , ’ she said , hoping that the time was a convincing one by now . |
| 2 | Mr Mummery at the time was a police dog trainer . |
| 3 | Seventy-five per cent of couples said sleeping together all the time was a turn-off . |
| 4 | Gunthardt had been a Wimbledon quarter-finalist that year in singles and had won the doubles title with Balazs Taroczy of Hungary so Bates ' victory at the time was a little short of sensational . |
| 5 | The acting schoolmaster at the time was a young unmarried man . |
| 6 | The time was a new personal best , his second of the championships after he had clocked 3m 43.14s in his heat itself more than four seconds off his previous-best mark . |
| 7 | Middlesbrough at the time was a club hot with scandal . |
| 8 | Er and Professor is right that it was paragraph B er which at the time was A A er it 's now B B , that caused er me and er my colleagues some difficulty erm in er policy and resources and it will be the reason for which we do n't support it this afternoon . |
| 9 | Hopper and Fonda were looking for finance , although all that existed at the time was an eight-page outline for the plot , which Fonda had been toting around . |
| 10 | In Sheffield ( Britain 's fourth largest city ) the only gay facility at the time was an upstairs bar in a pub called The King William . |
| 11 | No doubt there will be some who dismiss such utterances as hypocritical , asking how such views can be reconciled with the way Mr Chatrier , as President of the French Tennis Federation , worked so hard to provide Paris , in what was already a crowded autumn calendar , with what at the time was the richest official indoor tournament , other than The Masters , in terms of prize money . |
| 12 | The bigger problem for me at the time was the way the orchestra was playing . |
| 13 | One of the biggest bullies at the time was the king , Herod . |
| 14 | My girlfriend at the time was the daughter of an exterior decorator , and I hated exterior decorating — I mean , even at home just helping out — I hated it , but I did it because it was something to do . |
| 15 | It was a good case he wanted us to remember that there 's a hunger for the word of God and that what we should be worried about was poverty in the things of the spirit but he made the blank statement and it shocked one young man called John who at the time was the minister of a church extension charge in one of our deprived housing situations . |
| 16 | Instead , more typical of the time was the innovation of painting white lines along the centre of roads , the more extensive installation of traffic lights , the coming into force of the 30 m.p.h. speed limit , the inauguration of driving tests and the innovation of pedestrian crossings marked by the Belisha beacon , named after the Home Secretary of the day , Sir Leslie Hore-Belisha . |
| 17 | The time was the middle 1970s , marked by a series of ‘ Chronicle ’ television programmes , made by the author Henry Lincoln . |
| 18 | Instead they gave the name of the current dynasty — which at the time was the Ch'in . |
| 19 | A Middlesbrough Council spokesman said : ‘ The time was the best we could arrange between ourselves , the club and the police . ’ |