Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] a time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For ‘ Paris ’ add Prague , London , Venice , anywhere beautiful and foreign and not of the everyday , and for ‘ young man ’ insert ‘ or middle aged woman ’ and for ‘ lived ’ and ‘ or visited at a time in your life when you most needed it . ’ |
| 2 | In the long term , tenants who have had their benefit reduced or removed at a time of rising rents are having more difficulty in paying . |
| 3 | In September 1953 Curran became the BBC 's first internally selected administrative trainee , visiting or working for a time in different departments of the BBC in and out of London and assisting in the preparation of the BBC 's first personnel manual . |
| 4 | It was invented by the Joseph-Robinson corporation , a particularly unscrupulous food company that operated for a time amongst the outer colonies of the planet Earth . ’ |
| 5 | The events associated with the prisoners ' rights movement that flourished for a time in the late 1960s and early 1970s in parts of the United States , Scandinavia and Britain had by the early 1980s largely disappeared without trace . |
| 6 | The conventional wisdom of the decade-obsessed art world sees the Basquiat show as a referendum on the 1980s , placing an artist who had been catapulted into stardom by that era 's hype under the closer scrutiny that comes in a time of greater austerity . |
| 7 | They are kindly , educated people many of whom have spent their lives helping others and to whom fate has dealt a cruel , unexpected blow , leaving them bereaved and frightened at a time of approaching frailty . |
| 8 | Both Dalton and Alexander , the First Lord of the Admiralty , argued at meetings of the committee that Germany should be deprived of war-making industries , though not to the extent of the ‘ pastoralisation ’ proposed by Henry Morgenthau , the US Secretary of the Treasury , and accepted for a time by Churchill and Roosevelt at their meeting at Quebec in September 1944 . |
| 9 | Emma , committed to the cause of her son Harthacnut in the succession dispute of 1035 – 40 , and exiled for a time to Flanders as a result , seemingly wished to forget her previous marriage to Æthelred . |
| 10 | She had to sell her farm and work for a time in a department store . |
| 11 | The couple returned to the Howard estate at Cardington in Bedfordshire at first but moved for a time to Lymington on the Hampshire coast later , for the sake of her health . |