Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] time [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other propositions may not be testable even in principle but may remain for the time as a necessary component of an overall paradigm . |
| 2 | Hunt lived for a time as a tax exile in Marbella , sharing an estate with another ex model , Jane ‘ Hottie ’ Birbeck . |
| 3 | Certainly the fringe banking crisis of 1973–74 occurred at a time of a large inflow of new institutions into the market as a result of the perceived liberal market conditions brought about through competition and credit control . |
| 4 | Presumably it saw service for iron working at some time , although in later life it was used for corn grinding , saw milling , as well as being operated for a time as a maltings . |
| 5 | Whilst it could only be considered such with the wisdom of hindsight , it was nevertheless seen at the time as a geographically limited episode of a much wider-ranging struggle . |
| 6 | Weakening British exports , as the incomes of the primary producing countries overseas began to fall , came at a time of a downturn in the US economy which greatly aggravated deflationary tendencies . |
| 7 | The social person first moves out of his original position ( role ) ( " the rite of separation " ) ; he then exists for a time in a liminal condition , a threshold of time and space which is outside the ordinary world of secular affairs and is treated as in some way " sacred " ( Van Gennep 's " rite de marge " ) ; finally he moves back into secular society in his new position ( role ) ( " the rite of aggregation " ) . |
| 8 | These arms were commissioned at the time for a New Bond Street warehouse at a cost of 20 guineas . |
| 9 | The results were widely interpreted at the time as a personal vindication for the General . |
| 10 | This time is small compared with the time for a signal at the speed of light to travel from the detectors at one side of the experiment to those , 6 metres away , at the other side . |
| 11 | The selection of Mr Taylor , 39 , was challenged at the time by a section of the local Tory party , with Mr Bill Galbraith , a 55-year-old publisher , leading the criticism with a reference to the candidate as ‘ a bloody nigger ’ . |
| 12 | Typically a multi-speaker recognition system , the only sort that is going to be acceptable to users , will allow between 20 and 30 words to be recognised at a time with a success rate of around 85 to 90% . |
| 13 | Mr Bolona is equally welcome in financial circles in North America , where he worked for a time as a consultant on Latin American debt . |
| 14 | He became a trader in Nigeria and when this career failed , worked for a time as a clerk to Richard Beale Blaize , publisher of the short-lived Lagos Times . |
| 15 | The importance of the Cold War was strikingly underlined at the time by a comment of the future American director of the International Monetary Fund . |
| 16 | They had chosen one of the coldest Decembers ever recorded in England to make their journey , and Coleridge , plagued once more with neuralgia and illness , was suffering at the time from a face ‘ monstrously swoln ’ . |
| 17 | Depending on the time of a flood , root crops can be completely destroyed if submerged for more than twenty-four hours . |
| 18 | While I was there , I went for a time to a sangha , a Buddhist religious community . |
| 19 | Add to this the small but unnecessary morbidity associated with dilatation and curettage , and most people would agree that this procedure is not indicated at the time of a routine sterilisation . |
| 20 | Thatcherism was widely viewed at the time as a mad right-wing aberration which the people would not stand for long . |
| 21 | He had been stationed for a time in a war hospital , once a lunatic asylum . |
| 22 | In reality , a business — like everything else — is worth no more than the best offer you can obtain at the time of a sale . |
| 23 | The date of the coronation — an event regarded at the time as a rushed and shabby affair — has inspired comment , for it was the 13th , the thirtieth anniversary of the battle of Flodden . |
| 24 | The objective defined in 1858 was to enable ‘ persons requiring medical aid … to distinguish qualified from unqualified practitioners ’ and we need only read some early issues of the Lancet to learn that the medical register was regarded at the time as a list of doctors who set themselves higher standards than the multitude of quacks who then preyed on the sick . |
| 25 | What astonishes me is that the whole subject of injury from radiation seems to have been treated at the time with a casualness that approaches imbecility . |
| 26 | Sexual relations were prohibited during the time of a woman 's menstruation . |
| 27 | ‘ She 's not very forthcoming always about what 's going on at the back of her mind , ’ he said after a time in a soft voice to Jo-Ann , ‘ but I can generally tell something about it from the way she moves her toes . |
| 28 | We were engaged at the time on a pre-disturbance survey of HMS Hazardous , a man-of-war which sank in November 1706 . |
| 29 | She had to sell her farm and work for a time in a department store . |
| 30 | In 1876 he built a high water tower , topped for a time with a telescope . |