Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [verb] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | While few are completed at the time of writing , previews of work in progress suggest some excellent material . |
| 2 | Some researchers believe that this is related to the time orientation or how far ahead an individual thinks or plans . |
| 3 | This is spoken at a time when the media are documenting despair amongst Cork Street galleries and recognition by major collectors such as the Saatchi family that the bottom has fallen out of the market for modern art . |
| 4 | Moreover , this is occurring at a time when few resources are available to enable them to deal with increased numbers . |
| 5 | Considering that this was written at a time when Pound 's reputation was eclipsed as Eliot 's rose towards the zenith , the generosity of this essay , its lack of rancour , is admirable . |
| 6 | This was followed by a time of crisis : employment ! |
| 7 | A night-time curfew was imposed throughout the country on Oct. 2 ; this was extended for a time to 24 hours on Oct. 5 when it appeared that the rebels had reached the capital . |
| 8 | Guatemala has relied heavily on external aid , especially from the United States , though this was suspended for a time under the Carter administration because of Guatemala 's human rights record . |
| 9 | Dr Gillian Sutherland 's book Ability , Merit and Measurement has shown how testing in some ways preceded theoretical elaborations of the intelligence quotient — and how this was established by the time of the Spens report of 1938 . |
| 10 | All this was happening at a time when the Canadian Northern Railway was creating , in effect , a third transcontinental railway , built on much more economical lines than the exceptionally expensive and high-quality GTP . |
| 11 | All this was happening at a time of deep recession worsening by the day with unemployment rising to two and a half million , redundancies up by forty percent in the first four months of ninety one . |
| 12 | The US Semiconductor Industry Association 's book-to-bill ratio for March fell to 1.17 from the revised 1.19 figure for February — a figure of 1.18 was reported at the time . |
| 13 | People arrested late in 1991 were beaten at the time of their arrest and tortured and beaten while in detention . |
| 14 | It is hard to remember , unless something similar is happening at the time , exactly how strongly people feel at moments of great political crisis , how they are carried away by conviction of the rightness of their own side and by contempt and hatred of the other . |
| 15 | Much was made at the time of the Prince 's engagement of the youthfulness and consequent innocence of his bride . |
| 16 | It 'll all be forgotten by the time we do go back to town . |
| 17 | All were used at the time of the Edgar " Ordo " . |
| 18 | Scotland , compared to England and Wales , has relatively few medieval churches but , precisely because so many were destroyed at the time of the Reformation , Scotland is rich in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ecclesiastical architecture . |
| 19 | Because of the recession the public sector borrowing requirement ( PSBR ) will be high , and a figure of £28bn for 1992/93 was forecast at the time of the Budget in March . |
| 20 | This is a much larger proportion than that found among teenage women , where only about 1 in 3 were cohabiting at the time of the birth . |
| 21 | Only one or two young are born at a time and they are transported in an unusual manner by the mother — by hanging on to her greatly elongated teats . |
| 22 | In 1958 , Reginald Bassett lamented the fact ‘ that no study of the General Election of 1931 was made at the time on the lines of the extremely useful studies of the 1945 and subsequent General Elections sponsored by Nuffield College ’ . |
| 23 | On the Canterbury estates , the initial period of leasing from 1380 to 1440 was followed by a time when it was harder to secure tenants , but after about 1490 there was some recovery in revenues and evidence that there was competition for leases ( 80 , pp.79 , 86 ) . |