Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [vb past] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It replaces the original crescent shaped building which disappeared in Georgian times . |
| 2 | It is a scene reminiscent of the palaeolithic cave paintings and the much later Hodening and Horn dancing which survived until recent times , but today only at Abbotts Bromley , Staffs . |
| 3 | Indeed , a major theme which emerged at this time was the lack of attention given by employers to the age structure of their work-forces and the consequent lack of encouragement to older people to see themselves as potentially economically viable . |
| 4 | They came to the bank of the stream which had for some time been running unseen beside them . |
| 5 | In northern Ontario , railways that had originally been designed as ‘ colonization roads ’ to link any pioneering agricultural communities and to increase settlement in the ‘ clay belt ’ had become instead ‘ prospecting roads ’ in the remarkable scramble for the mineral riches of the area which developed in Edwardian times . |
| 6 | These strategies included the formation of complex households , containing several nuclear family units , as a response to the severe economic pressures which prevailed at that time ( Anderson , 1980 , pp. 77–8 ) . |
| 7 | William Stukeley , though , considered the church to be situated on the north side of All Saints Street and he drew a sketch of a fifteenth-century door which survived at that time . |
| 8 | It is only a short way from this position to punishment of artists whose views are seen as heretical , a tendency which led in medieval times to burnings at the stake and , more recently , to the horrors of the Maoist ‘ cultural revolution ’ . |
| 9 | Consolidation has been accompanied by an increase in renting , a phenomenon which existed for some time in African shanty towns , before it became common in Latin America . |
| 10 | We were still confined to our trenches due to the bombardment which continued for some time . |
| 11 | Shell sand , blown into the area between Caniçal and the end of the island in recent geological times , contains fossil shells and root- and branch-shaped concretions of the vegetation which existed at that time . |