Example sentences of "the time [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sign O The Times offered the bleak social realism of the title song , an unusually piercing glimpse into the artist 's soul on The Cross , plus fragments of incandescent musicianship . |
| 2 | It was , as The Times observed in the following year , a sorry fact that there was ‘ a vague dread of a wholesome birching ’ and that nowadays ‘ the father of a scapegrace ’ no longer saw fit to ‘ save his son from the taint of gaol by loyally and soundly whipping him ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ We feel this book was written because the times imposed it upon the authors . |
| 4 | Lysates were precleared with normal rabbit serum and equal amounts incubated at 37°C for the times indicated . |
| 5 | Anthony Bevins 's account in The Times continued , ‘ Mr Heseltine 's friends said last night that ad hoc meetings were a Downing Street device to kill internal Cabinet dissent . |
| 6 | Yet the times continued to breed strange bedfellows . |
| 7 | The Times advocated a coalition between Liberals and Conservatives . |
| 8 | And in 1963 The Times carried the cheerful news that a Mr Cock had married a Miss Prick . |
| 9 | The next day The Times carried an announcement headed |
| 10 | The next morning ( 30 January ) The Times carried an anonymous letter , rather quaintly signed ‘ Colonial ’ , which repeated several of the arguments and phrases used by Law the previous afternoon . |
| 11 | The Times carried five columns about the find , Nature magazine featured it and so did the New York Times . |
| 12 | An article in The Times carried the heading " Yuppies oust the hippies of yesteryear " .8 This offers a good example of a test developed by Newman who called it " Chronic vigour " .9 This is not , however , to be understood as " whatever is old is good " . |
| 13 | The papers have vied to meet ever-later deadlines : The Times produced two 6am editions which were sold to commuters into London . |
| 14 | There was a sense of resentment in the press reports when , as The Times revealed , the ratepayers of London had to pay the costs of Lord Haw-Haw 's legal defence , he having no money of his own in England — or , indeed , anywhere else . |
| 15 | The Times noted ‘ fruit trees which had begun to blossom after having long ceased ’ . |
| 16 | It was an alarming omen for the Imperial couple , but on 16 March 1856 Eugénie fulfilled her duty by giving birth to a son , thus securing the future of the dynasty , though The Times noted sombrely that since Louis XIV no direct heir had ever succeeded to the French throne . |
| 17 | And it was not until June that The Times began to ruffle its feathers and not until today that we get this . ’ |
| 18 | On the following day The Times demanded the formation of " Conservative Guards " who were to be drawn from " the whole mass of householders " . |
| 19 | Even The Times protested . |
| 20 | The times seemed to sanction important films that would be artistic and socially relevant but America was given films made by a self-made showman with artistic and intellectual pretensions and whose thinking was essentially homespun . |
| 21 | On weekdays , the Guardian thrived in a decade of Labour government reformism , while The Times struggled to modernize . |
| 22 | A correspondent of The Times thought it was ‘ like the first hearing of a great symphony ’ , and Harold Laski , never one to be outdone in either flattery or hyperbole , wrote to Baldwin that it was ‘ the greatest speech a Prime Minister has ever made ’ . |
| 23 | The Times agreed : ‘ It brings back Old London , unlighted and without a police . ’ |
| 24 | The Times made its strongest attack , one of the strongest ever made by that paper on a government department , in an editorial in February 1971 : |
| 25 | The Times made the suggested link their front-page headline — Porn videos turned ‘ Fox ’ into rapist — while the Daily Mail used this theme in their editorial of the day , as part of their continuing campaign against porn videos . |
| 26 | I 'll bet if the offices of The Times got vandalised , we 'd hear about it , all right . ’ |
| 27 | It was in part because of this love of the specially religious life , and in part because of the affection for the long history of the Church , that he led another pilgrimage ( 1959 ) of several thousand people to Holy Island on the coast of Northumberland and even The Times had a piece about the archbishop walking barefoot . |
| 28 | I witnessed this phenomenon in tragically symbolic form several months after The Times had published my series . |
| 29 | In 1869 , the year that bicycles were first manufactured in Britain , The Times had called cyclists ‘ A New Terror to the Streets ’ . |
| 30 | The Times had been reduced from being the ‘ top people 's paper ’ to running a form of bingo based on stock-market prices . |