Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he arose and took leave of the people , weeping plenteously , and returned to the Alcazar , and betook himself to his bed , and never rose from it again ; and every day he waxed weaker and weaker , till seven days only remained of the time appointed . |
| 2 | For the general view of music-making in the Nineteenth Century is inaccurate : time has winnowed away the reputations of many of the figures best known at the time , and completely obscured the smaller fry that occupied nine-tenths of the publishers ' catalogues of those days . |
| 3 | The choice of reference , whether it is to be to expert or arbitrator , is in any event usually made at the time of the original contract which precedes the time when the parties know whether they have an " issue to settle " or a " formulated dispute " , and they will be obliged to use whatever procedure was stipulated , unless they make some fresh agreement . |
| 4 | It was bold because it conflicted with theories generally accepted at the time , theories that included the assumption that electromagnetic systems ( magnets , charged bodies , current-carrying conductors , etc. ) act upon each other instantaneously across empty space and that electromagnetic effects can be propagated at a finite velocity only through material substances . |
| 5 | The price was one of the highest Modigliani ever received at the time . |
| 6 | These alliances were similar to the games of dice much favoured at the time : the marriages might or might not be successful ; they might or might not have political consequences . |
| 7 | As the police privately noted at the time , most of them showed substantial expertise and one in particular was carried out with the skill to be found only among persons such as highly trained army saboteurs . |