Example sentences of "in time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never fear , messieurs , we shall have this mystery solved in time of nothing at all . |
| 2 | And that name , Jacques de Molay , is evoked by Yeats in Section VII of his ‘ Meditations in Time of Civil War ’ : |
| 3 | Voters do not instinctively turn to Labour in time of trouble . |
| 4 | Among the winners : a society of Japanese housewives which distributes environmentally sound products ; an Ethiopian agronomist who has built up a seed bank of plants for use in time of drought , and Survival International , which campaigns for the rights of tribal peoples . |
| 5 | Attlee attacked the very basis of the perception that the Mediterranean was crucial to Britain in time of war , arguing that with the development of air power the resources needed to protect sea routes from Gibraltar to Suez would be impossible to find . |
| 6 | In time of war , the men and women of the Territorial Army make up about one-third of the Army , providing more than half the infantry needed in BAOR and over sixty per cent of the Army 's medical services . |
| 7 | Help in time of need |
| 8 | In time of war , persons for the time being residing or doing business in an enemy country , whatever their nationality or domicile , are disabled from suing in the English Courts ; but , if sued here , they will so far as possible be given an opportunity of defending themselves . |
| 9 | In 1959 Macmillan became the first Western head of state to visit Moscow in time of peace , sporting a white fur hat ( a psychological mistake , since white was only worn by Finns ) . |
| 10 | To share in it was so distinctive a mark of membership that , in time of persecution in the second and third centuries , pieces of the consecrated bread were taken round to baptized believers languishing in prison or on a sickbed . |
| 11 | He says they do this ‘ to direct other horses to food and water , especially over distances where they were out of earshot and out of sight of each other ; or to split the herd in time of danger ’ . |
| 12 | But hysteric she was , subject to the fatal political weakness of collapsing in time of trouble . |
| 13 | Brightness falls from the air ; Thomas Nashe : ‘ In Time of Pestilence ’ |
| 14 | Both there and at Keetmanshoep the Germans built headquarters stations which could take on a new strategic role in time of war . |
| 15 | Such tests are always considerably ahead in time of tests on pilot batches . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's awful when you lose a pet , but do n't forget that Brownies smile in time of trouble , and that 's just when the smile is most needed . |
| 17 | For the first time I realized the humiliating narrowness of mind with which one has to be equipped in time of war . |
| 18 | The garden of the house beside Century Street was enclosed by a tall , black wooden fence , parts of which in time of storm often collapsed . |
| 19 | 33. in time of the warp |
| 20 | Solidarity in time of threat , support when problems emerged , was to be provided by some notional public ‘ front ’ and a tin whistle . |
| 21 | They have developed the pleasant habit of touching each other on the shoulder in time of trouble , as a sort of physical sympathy . |
| 22 | However , in 1930 a White Paper ruled against the project on the grounds that the technical feasibility and economic benefits were too uncertain to justify the heavy expenditure needed to defend a tunnel in time of war . |
| 23 | During 1740 the First Lord of the Admiralty , with Walpole 's support , tried to carry a bill to create a national register of sea-faring men from which suitable recruits could be sought in time of crisis , but it was denounced by the Opposition as being akin to slavery and thrown out . |
| 24 | ‘ Meditations in Time of Civil War ’ |
| 25 | I turn to old favourites in time of stress . |
| 26 | Article 15 , in particular allows a state party to the Convention to take measures derogating from some of its obligations under the Convention ‘ In time of war or other public emergency threatening the life of the nation ’ to the extent strictly required by the exigencies of the situation , whilst many of the individual articles establishing particular rights allow to a state a measure of liberty of action in order to secure the public interest . |
| 27 | Miss Berggren 's hair appears to move in time of its own accord as James Brown 's Feel Good song plays . |
| 28 | Betty left this world with a one-and-threepenny funeral , supplemented only by the generosity of the chapel which had stood by her in time of need : ‘ Pd . |
| 29 | The next in time of those commemorated in the ASB is More 's antagonist William Tyndale , who was executed a year after him . |
| 30 | He was outstanding in charity and compassion , paying for the release of prisoners who were detained for debts and succouring families in time of need , but giving strict charge that they should not acknowledge the source of this help . |