Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |
| 2 | On Jan. 29 President César Gaviria Trujillo made a fresh offer , extending an earlier decree to include crimes committed up to the time of surrender , and on Jan. 30 the Extraditables , maintaining that the police had in fact killed Diana Turbay , announced that they were reconsidering their latest declaration of war and would abstain from violent action for the moment . |
| 3 | It had been better , a long time ago it had been better , when their loving had made Frank , and better up to the time of Adam 's birth . |
| 4 | Section 9(4) , which operates at the time of the application for an order under the Act , looks back towards the time in relation to which the witness would give evidence if an order was made and not forward to the time at which he would do so . |
| 5 | All of them have come out of the time over the nineteen ninety three have all been employed by the company . |
| 6 | But the study was carried out at a time of economic expansion and three out of four of the firms had experienced growth in the year prior to the study . |
| 7 | His kidnapping was carried out at a time of great international tension , occurring only two days after US aircraft had conducted bombing raids on targets in Libya . |
| 8 | Twenty five minutes behind Pat at the finishing line was Personnel Training Adviser who came in with a time of three hours 40 minutes . |
| 9 | There are indications that the mill was turned over for a time for saw milling , and possibly even cider production . |
| 10 | The Bank would require £5 to be written off at the time of sale and if the £5 was not injected as cash on day one , would even disallow the sale treatment . |
| 11 | The popularity of cider seems to have grown up around the time of the Norman Conquest , and the best soil and climate for growing apples dictated that the south-west became predominant in cider-making . |
| 12 | Within the Commonwealth , Mrs Thatcher 's hostility towards trade sanctions on South Africa had long weakened ties with the African and Asian states so fruitfully built up at the time of the settlement in Zimbabwe in 1979 . |
| 13 | According to Health Ministry figures , four people had been killed and 93 injured up to the time of the miners ' arrival on the scene . |
| 14 | The Anglo Scotia lace factory was built around 1870 — a Gothic four-storey building of extravagant design for such a purpose , with castellated turrets and parapet recalling some of the fortress-like factories put up around the time of the Luddite riots . |
| 15 | I explain that this is due to an old charter , dating back to the time of Sir Hugo de Courcy Rune , third earl of Penge . |
| 16 | Dunvegan was the headquarters of the clan Macleod ; the old castle , a ruin in Johnson 's time , dated back to a time of Viking rule . |
| 17 | In the Kindron Valley part of the Garden of Gethsemane has been preserved with a number of very old olive trees which may even date back to the time of Jesus . |
| 18 | ( b ) If the producer can prove that the defect came about after the time of supply by him , this will provide a defence ( s. 4(1) ( d ) ) . |
| 19 | And er Oh and if he If the time of the the er tinkers that they came round , if they came round about the time of the the pig killing they would look for the piece of bacon . |
| 20 | Humphrey Maud presented his diplomatic credentials to Menem on July 18 , becoming the first United Kingdom ambassador to Argentina since diplomatic relations were broken off at the time of the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands war of 1982 . |
| 21 | Relations with Iraq had been broken off at the time of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and US diplomatic business in Baghdad was handled by a US Interests section at the Belgian embassy ( headed by the author of an authoritative work on Kurdish affairs , William Eagleton Jnr ) . |
| 22 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
| 23 | Form criticism examines the way in which the traditions of Jesus were preserved and handed on in the time before the writing of the Gospels . |
| 24 | Fee income was still growing — we were very happy with the growth rate and everything was going according to the five-year plan we had drawn up at the time of the merger . |
| 25 | It has , of course , been a problem with star conductors going back to the time of Nikisch that the conductor can come to seem more charismatic than the music he is conducting . |
| 26 | A third approach was adopted by a small minority of bishops but an ever-larger circle of theologians , young priests ordained round about the time of the Council and lay activists , all far more aware of the objective inadequacy of the conciliar documents as they stood : inadequate precisely because their composers had been over-anxious not to make any sharp break with pre-conciliar practice . |
| 27 | The play surrounds and only goes up to the time of Artemesia 's rape . |
| 28 | The boulders which God had flung about at the time of the creation had , to Lydia 's eyes , a patriarchal air , and the pebbles which littered the stream seemed like little children confidently at rest in this fatherly presence . |
| 29 | Peer back to the time of William the Conqueror who gave the Isle of Holderness to a knight ‘ well tried in feats of arms ’ , Drogo de Bevere . |
| 30 | Belief in the power of such plants can be traced back to the time of the Druids ; it was certainly part of the belief system of the Celtic peoples , and although it may not be voiced so explicitly as it once was , yet the custom of planting and preserving this special tree is still continued by some people . |