Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [art] time [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pallister recalled : ‘ What some people in the game said at the time left a bad taste in my mouth . |
| 2 | Nationalism was , is and will be : it is , as Tom Nairn put it , the Janus-face looking at once forward to liberation and progress and backward to reactionary and often mythical notions of the past ; it is a force which should never be identified with the nation-state , a concept which nationalism has for a time inhabited , as a hermit crab inhabits a shell , but is evidently beginning to evacuate as the sovereign nation-state shows clear sign of obsolescence . |
| 3 | Since his recent appointment Mr Clayton has at no time had access to any medical evidence relating to the nine children . |
| 4 | The microbes known at the time did not pass through filters , so the nature of the material was obscure . |
| 5 | At the time it was widely believed that Sugar would not be returning to operational flying , as the following press release issued at the time seemed to indicate : |
| 6 | Isolated press reports at the time had noted that most of these forces were from the Nuer tribe , and their victims had been mainly from the Dinka tribe , of which Garang was a member . |