Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] time [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This Victorian advertisement claims that Carminative Cordial tin which Dad had so much faith ) ‘ saved the lives of many , especially during the time when cholera raged in Salisbury ’ ( 1849 ) . |
2 | Despite the earlier campaigns to the Forth against the Britons , this further offensive and the resources which it required and continued to require while Mercian strength increased in southern England represented a serious dislocation of northern Anglian royal aspirations , especially at a time when Oswiu remained committed to the maintenance of his influence south of the Humber , at least in ecclesiastical affairs . |
3 | If any government were to try to force them to do so , there would interminable arguments about its definition and measurement , especially at a time when price controls and other government interventions are causing enormous distortions in enterprise incomes . |
4 | Buying a PC by mail order can be traumatic , especially at a time when companies are going bust with alarming regularity . |
5 | And since an expensive loaf caused havoc in St Jude 's and trouble in everybody 's weaving sheds , with demands for higher wages keeping profits down at a time when trade was far from good — when it would probably never rise again to the level of those early , heady days when the machines first came in — then Ben Braithwaite and his dinner guests had reason for their anxiety . |
6 | This rude awakening was , however , still a few years away at the time when Dustin joined . |
7 | Thus at a time when Africa needs to industrialize , to create both exports and jobs , a review of the last thirty years shows how difficult this task has been and will be . |
8 | The reductions in university places , just at the time when girls are beginning to gain something like equal access , may have the effect of decreasing the absolute numbers of girls in universities even if they manage to catch up with boys proportionally . |
9 | Mr Rikanovic almost certainly knew nothing about Swiss law , by which anyone holding an item publicly for three years without judgment against him acquires title , but it is interesting that the visit occurred just at the time when Lord Northampton sought to have the ownership dispute heard by the Swiss courts . |
10 | He wrote just at the time when English was becoming an established literary language and with a felicity which later caused most of his translation — perhaps 75 per cent — to be retained in the King James Bible , the authorised version for 300 years . |
11 | Yes er somehow they , they 'd , they 'd got it , or was it or did I have to fill in a a census form just at the time when Paul was with me ? |
12 | Just at the time when people need advice , what 's happened , the Council have closed it down . |
13 | It should come as no surprise that just at the time when manufacturers were becoming cautious in their claims about what their creams could do , a pharmaceutical superstar in the form of Retin-A burst into the firmament . |
14 | There was thus a real danger , not of impoverishment , but of the closing of the gap between princes and other lesser lords , just at the time when display and liberality were increasingly important elements in princely political armouries . |
15 | The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well . |
16 | One man further down the street was a Somerset-born commercial traveller for a draper — very much like Benjamin 's father , Ben the Outrider — and Henry Budeler at no. 13a , assistant to a law stationer , had been born in Frome almost exactly at the time when Ben , senior , was leaving that town for London . |
17 | If not , sit down and have a chat with your child ; but not at a time when feelings are running high . |
18 | The book begins with the 1950s , when baby manuals indexed ‘ fathers ’ as ‘ for fathers see mothers ’ , and men were ‘ angry ’ , ‘ tough ’ or ‘ queer ’ ; it ends with ‘ a new agenda for the 1990s ’ , described hopefully as a time when men join women in fighting for an end to exploitation of women at work and home , and the ‘ masculinity ’ we have known will come to a timely end . |
19 | Once upon a time when Intel released the 80286 , everyone wanted to make a 286-compatible PC , including Ericsson . |
20 | I left him to his problems because it was coming up to the time when Emil had said the crew should board the train , and I was due back in the coffee shop . |
21 | It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold . |
22 | On one side was the flower-garden view ; on the other , one window had been bricked up at the time when windows were taxed , and I walked over to the remaining window . |
23 | The staff revolted , Elliott locked them out of the Time Out offices , and the magazine vanished from the newsstands . |
24 | Their society may have , and most probably has , changed radically and often since the time when hunters and gatherers roamed Europe . |
25 | But although the name Roath is an ancient one — it means , in Irish , the forest and therefore dates back to a time when Welsh was borrowing words from Irish , around the 5th century — there was little that surrounded the young Cottle which was in fact medieval . |
26 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereigns were king coins . |
27 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereign was king of coins . |
28 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereign was king of coins . |
29 | But if film executives were to be believed , the majority of the audience was less interested in salving their fears about wars and conflicts ahead than in looking back to the time when Britain had a role to play in the world . |
30 | In order to find out what the substantive law is , we must still go back to the time when Law and Equity were administered in different courts ; we may still have to picture to ourselves distinct proceedings taken about the same matter in those courts , and work out the result of those separate proceedings . |