Example sentences of "was in the time " in BNC.

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1 In January 1219 the sheriff of Huntingdon was ordered to see that the Forest was kept as it was in the time of King John : the perambulating jury was summoned before the Council , amerced and imprisoned .
2 Across the road from the churchyard is Poosie Nansie 's pub , the setting for Burns 's poem ‘ The Jolly Beggars ’ , and is as welcoming today as it was in the time of Scotia 's bard .
3 The problem of fertility is as unsolved as it was in the time of Aristotle , and the principal bugbear is lack of cooperation .
4 That was in the time when Dr Marks was principal and a young master named George Scott was on the staff , two of the best remembered Britishers who ever lived in Burma .
5 Er well I was in the time office in the first place , the men used to er cl check in , they used to bring the checks you see ? brass checks , numbered .
6 Her main interest was in the time course of memory formation , and she had been using a variety of drugs , including agents which disrupt entry of ions such as potassium into the cell , and also protein synthesis inhibitors , to dissect out a series of phases , which she described as short- , intermediate- and long-term memory .
7 " Possibly — though if the medical evidence about the time of death is right it 's hard to see how he could have got to where he was in the time .
8 No it was , it was in the time limit .
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