Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 Was n't there something wrong with Russia at any time ?
2 Whatever was wrong with Ken at that time , Andrew Ray is convinced it was n't sex .
3 Comments on Churchill by some in London at this time were no more flattering .
4 But y I think you can also see the appeal of this to Freud in that time because in the early years Freud 's model of the mind , which is really what we 're talking about today , was erm a kind of hydraulic one .
5 Leigh had made it clear to Olivier during this time of her mental illness that she no longer loved him , and Olivier was well aware that his wife wanted to be with Finchie .
6 ‘ I must subordinate my own wishes to the larger world ’ would be a fair summary , highly appropriate to Bilbo at that time .
7 What is remarkable about Ireland at this time is the lack of resistance to the authority of Canterbury : as a result , Anselm was able without controversy to extend the area within which the authority of Canterbury was effective .
8 To her astonishment , Rosalind flung her arms about her and hugged and kissed her , which was unusual for Rosalind at any time !
9 Do d do you think your father was unusual in Hirael at that time or or was that kind of behaviour by men accepted ?
10 In all of Ayrshire at that time , there were very few hotels offering accommodation and every hotel bed available in Central Ayrshire was booked , some to be shared by several people .
11 Some 20,000 of the original 73,500 Soviet troops were still present in Czechoslovakia at this time .
12 What was astonishing in Prague at this time was the exceptional quality of all the arts , not merely architecture and painting , but the work of the stuccoists , woodcarvers , furniture-makers and glassworkers .
13 The uprising continued along the same lines as the bread riots which had been rife in Russia at that time and so the Tsarina was worried but thinks everything will be alright and informed the Tsar , who was away inspecting troops , to this effect .
14 Whereas things appeared stable in Britain at that time , overseas there existed events of change — in Italy there existed no unity and much of the land was occupied by the forces of Austria , but they were removed and in 1833 , a united Italy was advocated under Papal rule , but that proved not to be successful and it would be some years before Garibaldi was able to form the Italian National Association for the Unification of Italy which only achieved its objective in 1871 .
15 Archibald Geikie somehow learnt the manual alphabet , and there being no school for the deaf in Edinburgh at that time ( Braidwood 's Academy had moved to Hackney in 1783 ) , undertook the teaching of his son himself .
16 The common feature in these five cases is that the mother had been resident in Seascale at some time since the early 1950s , when the Sellafield nuclear plant came into operation .
17 It had been apparent to Hank for some time that , in spite of repeating Grade 12 at school , he was likely to fail his exams again .
18 But my father went to America just after the war , and when he came back on the Queen Mary , he brought my mother some nylons , which were not obtainable in Britain at that time .
19 Also controversial at Oxford at this time was the question whether man , being both body and soul , has both a corporeal and a spiritual form : Aquinas taught that in every corporeal being there is one substantial form .
20 Dashwood was Postmaster-General of England at one time .
21 At the Manor Ground they 'll remember ; remember the 3rd of November for some time .
22 Contemporary with Watt was Gaspard Monge , who in 1795 published his Géométrie descriptive ; although this book was not directly influential in Britain for some time ( British engineers having little sympathy for abstract mathematics ) , it formed the basis for modern engineering drawing .
23 Even when the highest part of a secular model was more obviously tuneful than that of ‘ Misericorde au martir amoureulx ’ — as we shall see , such songs were very fashionable in Paris at this time and the composer took few pains to disguise it ( e.g. Gombert 's Mass ‘ Je suys déshéritée ’ on a chanson attributed in the earliest source , Attaingnant 's Trente chansons musicales ( Paris , 1533 ) to Lupi , in later ones to Pierre Cadéac ) , the incongruence evidently did not disconcert contemporaries .
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