Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] of [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the course of that time , the light from Lucifer 's atmosphere would have grown in strength until it blotted out the stars and enveloped both Bridge and Lift in a flaming glare . |
| 2 | They plotted it together and they were nice to one another during the whole of that time and when it was all over and the lawyers were serving papers , their parting was quite unbearable . |
| 3 | The team will present a paper to the Conference of the British Sociological Association which is meeting at Kent during the period of this time . |
| 4 | Because one of the beauties of this time was his apparent ( or indeed real ) lack of motive . |
| 5 | Rain fell heavily all day to add to the misery of people who came in the shop , many of whom had lived through the Great War , and told Anne some of the horrors of that time . |
| 6 | For a nation of radicals and independents such as France , the creation of the Union Sacrée whereby men of all political hues submerged their feuds in the interests of national unity was one of the miracles of all time . |
| 7 | The historian is entitled to regard the matter of leadership as an ‘ issue ’ in the minds of the men of this time . |
| 8 | Towards the end of that time she sent me a letter ( not entirely personal , being printed , in facsimile handwriting ) : |
| 9 | Towards the end of this time , the mother looks as though she has a bunch of pink grapes on her underside and clambering about the branches or running over uneven ground not only becomes awkward for her but looks distinctly uncomfortable for her young . |
| 10 | The other survivor from the Stockport of this time is the Grammar School , founded under the terms of the will of Sir Edmond Shaa , who died on 20th April 1488 . |
| 11 | Its issue presupposes that some function of the body remains to be performed , and this sets an internal time limit after which the order could not issue ( although an applicant can be denied the order because of undue delay even before the expiry of this time ) . |
| 12 | And only two amazing misses , one of those candidly coming er just before scored the second Notts goal , with a headed chance headed wide when er had come and missed it , and when on forty four minutes on the watch but not a minute before the end of half time if you get the meaning because we had that long period of extra time , er missed the chance completely , he 'd made the er Pisa goal brilliantly with a cross from the right hand side , deep cross , pulled back brilliantly , but left with a chance , the number eleven in front of the post , well what was he doing ? again had come and again he 'd missed it and left with an open goal was wide of the target . |
| 13 | Stephen Orgel discerns in the theatre of this time the fear that man 's superior development could be reversed — ‘ that men can turn into — or be turned into — women ; or perhaps more exactly , can be turned back into woman , losing the strength that enabled the male potential to be realized in the first place . ’ |
| 14 | The place has all the appropriate externals , chimneys choked with ivy , windows with jasmine , worm-eaten shutters , mossy thatch , all of which ‘ under the quiet light of a sky marbled with high clouds would have made a sort of picture which we have all passed over as a ‘ charming bit ’ , touching other sensibilities than those which are stirred by the depression of the agricultural interest , with the sad lack of farming capital , as seen constantly in the newspapers of that time ’ . |
| 15 | Do you know I 've served in the Army for thirty three years and I 've commanded every thing at every level in the infantry which both these gentlemen have been in , from a platoon right up now to a brig er brigade and I can honestly tell you that I have n't seen more than a couple of incidents of bullying in the whole of that time . |
| 16 | I see now the inadequacy of this explanation ; but , apart from the fact that at that age one 's loyalties are defended with more than usual zeal , my conviction , in the Oxford of that time , was that Collingwood was the only alternative to linguistic philosophy . |
| 17 | Current levels of unemployment are relatively unimportant , hopefully some time down the line they will expect to get er as a relatively well paid job erm because agricultural incomes are so very low , you know , and urban incomes are relatively , relatively high , they may be prepared to wait for you know five or six years in the urban area , making what could be sort of a subsistence wage , simply because that 's all that they 're gon na be on anyway if they stay in the rural area , so if there is a higher probability of them getting a well paid job merely by being in the urban area making these contacts then they might as well move to the , to the urban area in the hope of some time in the future obtaining that er er an urban job . |
| 18 | At least the children were not subjected to the brutal excesses common enough in the collieries of that time . |
| 19 | Darren had made some slight weight gain — 1.2 kg over the course of this time — and mother was persevering with feeding . |
| 20 | His patronage may have seemed essential to the architects of that time , although corporate clients were emerging , such as Poor Law Boards , or boards of directors of railway companies . |
| 21 | Charges shall be payable on the expiry of any time limit previously stipulated and the carrier shall be entitled to interest at the average of the overdraft interest rates being charged at Lloyds Bank plc and Barclays Bank plc current at this time , calculated on a daily basis on all amounts overdue to the carrier . |
| 22 | Jamie Richmond added another on the stroke of half time and Gert Jan Vreevurg brought the score up to 7-0 with a slapshot from the point . |
| 23 | Lang restored Instonians lead to four points before McGarry replied with a fine penalty on the stroke of half time . |
| 24 | Jimmy Phillips gave Middlesbrough brief hope of a revival from the penalty spot two minutes later after Mike Hooper hauled down John Hendrie , but Steve McManaman restored respectability to the scoreline when he turned home Liverpool 's third on the stroke of half time from Don Hutchison 's raking pass . |
| 25 | But they made no mistake on the stroke of half time when Stevenson pounced on an Elliott pass to crack the ball through a ruck of bodies after Wrexham failed to clear a free kick . |
| 26 | Portsmouth took the lead in their match at Fratton Park against Bournemouth through Clark , right on the stroke of half time . |
| 27 | Steve Foster was desperately unlucky not to score when he 'd bludgeoned his way through , right on the stroke of half time . |
| 28 | He 'd been on the binge of all time , wrecking cars , hitting her , almost breaking two of her fingers . |
| 29 | A stormy passage up the west coast in Autumn gales gave us a taste of what was to come , and those among the crew of that time will remember it as the Force Ten winter . |
| 30 | Among the painters of this time to note are Antonín Manés , whose fine Romantic landscapes are signed ‘ Bohemus ’ , and the landscapes and still-lifes of Josef Navrátil who also painted house interiors . |