Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equality has been a powerful theme in British politics since the turn of the century and can be seen in practice in the high marginal rates of income tax in the postwar years reaching until recently a marginal tax of 83 per cent on earned income and 98 per cent on unearned income ; the drive to abolish private education and private health ; the ‘ euthanasia of the rentier ’ through rent control ; and the provision of state welfare services financed by taxation but free of charge at the time they are used . |
| 2 | Buster bought a very old and very large American motor car — I believe the price was £10 and , being probably one of the poorest of apprentices at the time , I had a 10 share in this syndicate . |
| 3 | President Guillermo Endara ended on March 13 a 13-day hunger strike which he had reportedly undertaken in solidarity with the most needy of Panamanians at a time of severe economic crisis . |
| 4 | During the early twentieth century and increasingly during the inter-war years the ideology of motherhood was reinforced legislatively by the marriage bar , which was applied chiefly to professional women and which served firmly to delineate the world of married women from that of men at a time when it was becoming widely acceptable for single middle class girls and women to go out to work . |
| 5 | Goldfish , for instance , lay hundreds of eggs at a time , but give them no parental care at all . |
| 6 | The same was true of cattle in much of Europe at the time , and probably reflected neglected animal husbandry and a failure to breed selectively in a period when crop-growing was far more important than livestock . |
| 7 | It 's a replacement for the DOS Type command , except that you automatically get one screen full of information at a time and you can scroll backwards and forwards , and search for particular text . |
| 8 | The traditional ready-mixed trucks are capable of carrying up to 6m 3 of concrete at a time . |
| 9 | It would appear , for example , that either the statement in the that Molla Kestelli was kadi of Istanbul at the time of the death of Molla Ala'al-Din Ali b . |
| 10 | Of these , the 30,000 who were still capable of resistance at the time of the ceasefire were to be allowed to return to Baghdad through the encircling allied forces although they were not to be permitted to take their remaining 700 or so tanks . |
| 11 | Alternatively , a courier will smuggle often millions of pounds at a time to a country where banking secrecy offers greater protection . |
| 12 | And lastly , but by no means least , are the tsunami effects , vast tidal waves usually generated by undersea earthquakes : those tsunami have been responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people at a time when they struck low-lying coastal areas . ’ |
| 13 | LGC 's skill is in fine detection , such as identifying the source of a one-off water contamination rather than routine studies , because of the range of staff and equipment — ‘ We are not generally geared up to carry out analyses on thousands of samples at a time ’ . |