Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] time [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Her father was under clad for the time of year but was sweating heavily .
2 These courses could not be done in a shorter time so they were normally arranged for a time of year when there was less pressure of work on those participating .
3 The convoy was halted for a time by protesters at Dalreoch , on the Dumbarton-Helensburgh road , again at Helensburgh and on the third occasion at the protest camp at the gates to the base .
4 In the famous Middletown studies made by Robert and Helen Lynd the Lynds lived for a time in Muncie , Indiana , but were always known to be researchers .
5 ‘ We lived for a time in Washington DC , ’ she said slowly .
6 A contemporary of Gundulić was Junije Palmotić ( 1606–57 ) , a Ragusan noble who lived for a time in Bosnia , and who drew upon the Slav folk tales as well as on contemporary Italian and ancient classical traditions for the abundant outpouring of songs , satires , verse epics and dramas which he composed .
7 Much of the learning and practice of the Egyptians was absorbed by Greek physicians , one of the best known of whom is Dioscorides , an army doctor who lived during the time of Nero in the first century AD .
8 Broadly the period 1951–87 can be divided into four parts : 1951–64 , a period of comparatively little social policy innovation which may be regarded as a time of consolidation or stagnation , according to one 's political viewpoint ; 1964–74 , a period of fairly intense policy change stimulated by both political parties , in which considerable difficulties were experienced in translating aspirations into practice ; 1974–78 , a period in which rapid inflation and government by the Labour party without a parliamentary majority administered a severe shock to the political and social system , and to all who believed that there was still a need for developments in social policy ; and 1979–87 , when much more explicitly anti-welfare state Conservative administrations reinforced that shock by deliberately treating inflation as more deserving of its attention than unemployment , attacking public services which were seen as inhibiting economic recovery and seeking ways to ‘ privatize ’ public services .
9 This means that the model of continuous and homogeneous time which Lévi-Strauss had also argued against can not here be regarded as the time of history .
10 Conversely youth is depicted as a time of vitality and good health .
11 Elsewhere in the country , one polling station in the south was occupied for a time by Khmer Rouge troops , who eventually stole a UN car and left .
12 The couple returned to the Howard estate at Cardington in Bedfordshire at first but moved for a time to Lymington on the Hampshire coast later , for the sake of her health .
13 In Rockingham and Whittlewood they appear to have been discontinued after the time of Charles I , and in 1789 the Rt .
14 He watched me , smiling but sharp , and for some reason — for no reason — I was reminded of a time at school when I had tried to make one friend betray another , and failed .
15 Are you so trapped in a time of royalty and titles that you ca n't envisage a world in which a woman has obligations ? ’
16 * Technical note : like last week to ensure a fair contest , all extracts have been given the same epistolary format that Bragg used in A Time To Dance .
17 The evidence for this assumption seems in the end to be the fact that Taskopruzade uses for the first time in relation to Molla Fenari a distinctly official-sounding title which appears to encompass the entire Ottoman state , namely ; but it must be reiterated that there is no evidence in Taskopruzade 's account to suggest that this appointment occurred in the time of Murad II rather than earlier , perhaps in the time of Mehmed I or even of Bayezid I.
18 Please let us know at the time of booking if you would like us to make a hotel reservation on your behalf .
19 The court , in deciding that W was not guilty , said that a supplier of goods does not commit an offence under section 1 if he does not know at the time of supply or offer to supply that the trade description was applied to the goods .
20 Second , as regards durability , the goods should last for a reasonable time and any breach should be regarded as occurring at the time of supply rather than when the lack of durability became apparent .
21 The principal offence , located at the time of field work in the Rivers ( Prevention of Pollution ) Act 1951 , s.2 , is committed if a person ‘ causes or knowingly permits to enter a stream any poisonous , noxious or polluting matter …
22 Ife , a city to the west of the River Niger and , according to Yoruba tradition , the centre where the world was created , was occupied at the time of Igbo Ukwu .
23 All the nineteenth-century conventions of comedy pointed to the need for universality and in any case Chaplin 's own personal inclinations must have pulled him back from being sectionally committed at a time of class warfare .
24 Education is often the first to be squeezed at a time of cuts .
25 These were : dégorgement ( the act of removing sediment from the bottle after the second fermentation ) and liqueur de tirage ( the addition of sugar and yeast at the time of bottling to promote and guarantee a second fermentation ) .
26 The lead isotope data can be explained if the U/Pb ratios in the sources are comparable to those observed for the lavas and the U/Pb fractionation occurred at the time of formation of the local oceanic lithosphere .
27 E. F. Loftus and Burns interpreted these results as retrograde amnesia produced by mental shock , and suggested that the impairment occurred at the time of storage of the memory .
28 If the vessel is sold unrepaired then the measure of indemnity will be the depreciation in the sale price caused by the unrepaired damage , provided such depreciation would not exceed the reasonable cost of repairs if the vessel had been repaired at the time of loss .
29 The following policy exclusions are of importance in determining whether a valid subsidence claim exists : o Defective design or inadequate construction of the foundations — e.g. where the foundations of a property have not been constructed to a level required by regulations applying at the time of construction .
30 In the aftermath , the French government , headed at the time by Félix Gaillard , bowed to foreign pressure and agreed to accept American and British mediation over the incident .
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