Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because we are conditioned to thinking of retirement as a time for settling into a new home , many people up sticks without perhaps giving enough thought to such essentials as proximity to family and friends and whether a different area would provide the same scope for pursuing their interests . |
| 2 | His would not have been the only provincial accent to assail the ears of Londoners at the time , but at least it would have lent his speech a touch of bucolic appeal , with its rolling Somerset post-vocalic ‘ r ’ sounds and a liberal sprinkling of ‘ v 's for ‘ f's and ‘ z's for ‘ S'S . |
| 3 | If my memory serves me correctly , the very first public outing of the very first public train resulted in a fatality , and one at a mere 12 mph , though doubtless this seemed like the speed of light at the time . |
| 4 | Robert Capa was president of Magnum at the time , and active in its head office . |
| 5 | MAS will charge for its services in connection with the above programme of work on a time basis . |
| 6 | The Mayor of Bedford for the time being was always to be an additional director and at the time of the meeting the Mayor was John Wing , who had been sworn in on 29th September 1793 , and served for one year , after which he remained as one of the aldermen . |
| 7 | Charles Short , the surgeon , was Mayor of Bedford at the time and as such , the presiding coroner : |
| 8 | Erm but er when the war finished , when the war finished and the Home Guard stood down , I ca n't remember who was the mayor of Walsall at the time , but they had a reception in the town hall for the Home Guard and everyone that was in the Home Guard was invited before we hand before we st handed our uniforms in , was invited to attend and I must say with great pride that I was can still remember it now , that the wife and I went to the reception and I was in the uniform and it 'd be the mace bearer I presume that was at the door and he asked your name and er rank and he shouted out your name and rank when you went in and you was greeted by the mayor and mayoress inside the ves the hall of the town hall , and erm I mean er quite proud to be Corporal and Mrs you know and it I mean everyone that went , I mean their rank and name and who was with them , you know , was it was quite quite a er er quite a something of to look back to of interest that was , you know , when we stood down . |
| 9 | The appearance of a Frithuric among the Middle Angles in the reign of Wulfhere 's successor , Aethelred , giving Bredun , probably Breedon on the Hill in Leicestershire , to the monastery of Peterborough in the time of Seaxwulf , Wynfrith 's successor as bishop of Lichfield , and Breedon 's connection with the monasteries of Bermondsey and Woking in Surrey , raises the intriguing possibility that Frithuwald was a Middle Angle intruded into Surrey by Wulfhere or at the very least that Frithuwald represented a ruling family in Surrey which had strong Middle Anglian connections . |
| 10 | On the other side of Europe , a century earlier , researches have shown the monastery of Fulda in the time of its abbot Hrabanus Maurus ( 822–42 ) to be administering a large network of parish churches . |
| 11 | A crucial distinction turned out to be whether the stimuli were presented only to one side of fixation at a time or simultaneously to both sides . |
| 12 | Robert Bossu had pursued the dispute here to Shrewsbury in search of diversion in a time of frustration and inaction , a pity he must be denied the best of the joke that was so much more than merely a joke . |
| 13 | The Coal Board decided to change the work organisation in order to introduce new coal-cutting equipment capable of cutting a long stretch of wall at a time . |
| 14 | Many of the present team have been with the organisation at least since 1974 when Mr d'Ancona , an assistant secretary with the Department of Energy at the time , was asked to implement a political decision to transfer the headquarters of the fledgling organisation from London to Glasgow . |
| 15 | Widnes were back to a full complement of players by the time Tony Thorniley scored Warrington 's second , again from an inspired Mackey pass , but the visitors were powerless to prevent the centre reaching the line from 25 yards . |
| 16 | The Court of Appeal has intimated that such cases are appropriate cases for the grant of extensions of the time allowed for appealing ( Legal Aid Handbook , 1990 ) . |
| 17 | The man who offered this piece of advice turned out to be Lord Cole , who was chairman of Unilever at the time and went on to be chairman of Rolls-Royce and several other major companies . |
| 18 | Gordon Prentice ( Lab , Pendle ) urged : ‘ Will you join me in condemning the 24 per cent pay increase and the 35 per cent pay increase of the chief executive and chairman of Rolls-Royce at a time when they are sacking 5,000 skilled workers , including 170 in my constituency ? ’ |
| 19 | As stated above , exceptions were introduced for those with very limited means , but these did not prevent a huge storm of protest at the time of the introduction of the new system . |
| 20 | The new styles marked a major change of direction at the time of the Civil Wars ; although they often impinged only indirectly on local farming life , the upheavals of the 1640s were enough to halt the great rebuilding almost entirely . |
| 21 | For instance , at Prudential Assurance , the taxable disturbance allowance of £1724 is paid in two equal instalments ; employees receive one payment of £862 at the time of their transfer and the balance one year later . |
| 22 | The plan was originally for 17,000 MW of coal plant but this was reduced to 11,300 MW and the level of construction at the time of writing suggested that this objective may not be achieved . |
| 23 | In its report and accounts for the year ended 30 June 1992 , the Mutual Accountants Professional Indemnity Company ( MAPIC ) warns of a greater level of claims at a time when competition in the market has tended to depress rates . |
| 24 | The historical analysis also charts trends in the degree of consensus of approach existing between the parties , highlighting an increased level of agreement by the time of the second direct elections to the European Parliament in 1984 . |
| 25 | Still this little bit of involvement at a time when you think life is going to be much simpler . |
| 26 | That caused a bit of talk at the time . ’ |
| 27 | He staged a counter-attack which brought him back into power in 1769 , but at the price of a financial disaster from which he never recovered ; money was borrowed to buy shares with which to create votes for the election of directors at a time when the value of the Company 's stock collapsed . |
| 28 | William Bayles Hauxwell fought mightily to keep pace with the ceaseless tide of farmwork at a time when mechanization and all the labour-saving devices now taken for granted in agriculture were but a distant dream in Baldersdale . |
| 29 | Donald Woods , 58 , was the only white members of the governing council of the South African Cricket Board of Control at the time of his arrest and banning in Johannesburg by state decree in October 1977 . |
| 30 | A candidate may present information , relevant to his examination performance which , in his view , was not in the possession of the Board of Examiners at the time of the Board 's initial decision about his academic progress . |