Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the other main intruder into the parliamentary arena , the support for the SNP at this time was a more complex phenomenon . |
| 2 | Clearly , reducing the number of road casualties is and has been a priority for the Government for some time . |
| 3 | It subsequently emerged that one reason for his decision was that he had taken into account the fact that publicity about the complaint would be politically damaging for the Government at that time . |
| 4 | Greenock does not seem a very inviting place for the pleasure-seeker at any time ; in rainy weather its attractions are not heightened . |
| 5 | He expects to receive a dividend at the end of the year as well as the price for the share at that time . |
| 6 | The hotel operated a policy of re-letting rooms if not taken up by 6pm , but if the customer paid a separate charge , the room could be kept for the customer after that time . |
| 7 | The report on the coarse wares is very illuminating for the views at that time of a man who had spent a lifetime handling pottery . |
| 8 | It also must have given them much-needed protection , for the seas at this time were tyrannised by the huge , two-metre-long sea scorpions armed with massive claws which fed on the smaller creatures of the sea floor . |
| 9 | ‘ A witness may be cross-examined as to previous statements made by him in writing or reduced into writing relative to the subject matter of the indictment or proceeding , without such writing being shown to him ; but if it is intended to contradict such witness by the writing , his attention must , before such contradictory proof can be given , be called to those parts of the writing which are to be used for the purpose of so contradicting him : provided always , that it shall be competent for the judge at any time during the trial , to require the production of the writing for his inspection , and he may thereupon make such use of it for the purpose of the trial as he may think fit . |
| 10 | With the exception of some thrusts into the Agenais , the primary sphere of acquisitive activity for the Albret at this time was the Bordelais and Bazadais . |
| 11 | Most people are ready to go out for the evening at that time , ’ laughs Ted . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Every 10 minutes , three images of the gall bladder were taken and the mean of the three measurements was taken as the response at this time point . |
| 16 | Wealth was , however , not the only factor discussed by Veblen , and it is of particular interest that he ends his account of the leisure class with a chapter on ‘ The higher learning as an expression of pecuniary culture ’ , and with an emphasis on Classics as the key at that time to the concept of high culture . |
| 17 | All the noise being made about the hostages at that time was just political rhetoric . |
| 18 | Local offices display their service standard and encourage customers to put forward views about the service at any time or through Customer Satisfaction Surveys . |
| 19 | This is his acid way of counteracting the Alka-Seltzer effervescence which is washing about the stomach at this time of year . |
| 20 | From this more harmonious base the counsellor can attempt to move the family on to consider when family relationships began to falter , what the circumstances were , and how all parties felt about the issues at that time . |
| 21 | Sometime after we began work he started talking about the King 's Cross railway station fire that killed so many and about the fact that he was on an underground train going through the station at that time . |
| 22 | I , I did n't I came off the council at that time and er I became the president of the gathering . |
| 23 | The first one mentioned again the photograph I had sent : ‘ I 've almost gazed the gloss off the film by this time ! |
| 24 | That 's all they got off the union at that time of the day . |
| 25 | The fourth stage was planned to take place in late March and will show what our position is after we have been off the air for some time . |
| 26 | If you can find out when they feed you will be able to take off the cover at that time and watch them feeding . |
| 27 | One can not help but feel that one of the reasons why Edberg was beaten in his opening singles — without in any way detracting from Nestor 's fine achievement — was that he had so little time for either his body or his tennis to adjust after the journey to another time zone — and surface — from Australia . |
| 28 | The Grandmaster of the Order at this time was Jacques de Molay . |
| 29 | It is my strong impression that it is probably a very small MI5 mafia who have been out of the service for some time , who still continue the vendetta for no doubt extremely right-wing purposes of their own . |
| 30 | He was not one of us ; he did not quite fit into the measured compartmentalised minds of the Service at that time . |