Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the 68 patients entered , two were retrospectively excluded from analysis : one patient had an incompletely healed ulcer at the time of entry , and the other had a substantial prepyloric ulcer associated with small duodenal erosions . |
| 2 | But whatever the motive , the Maestro and Montego are providing much needed work at a time when work is hard to come by . |
| 3 | They provide much needed colour at a time when many perennials and certainly most shrubs have finished , but without appearing overwhelmingly garish . |
| 4 | Mr Major rejected the appeal and insisted the donations from Nadir 's companies had not been illegal , even though they were not made public at the time . |
| 5 | I had not seen Leeds at the time ’ ? |
| 6 | The best known mayor of the time , Shaikh Muhammad Ali Ja'bari ( who had led the West Bank notables to accept Hashemite rule in 1948 ) , offered to act as an intermediary between the Israelis and Amman — a role which , as Amman was quick to perceive , greatly enhanced Ja'bari 's standing as ‘ the leader ’ of the West Bank population . |
| 7 | By 1920 the English Channel Tunnel Company 's scheme for a rail tunnel between Shakespeare Cliff and Sangatte was at an advanced stage of development and had attracted the support of MPs , businessmen and engineers who saw it as a major work of postwar reconstruction which would provide badly needed employment at a time of recession . |
| 8 | Mrs Thatcher , like Mr Heath before her , clearly regarded Opposition as a time of preparation for government . |
| 9 | Hail and sleet showers swept over the ridge , and the Torridon giants , which rose as distant black battlements when seen from Meallan nan Euan , had changed to seemingly nearer whitewashed walls by the time I 'd dropped and climbed . |
| 10 | Turquoise had also reached China by the time of the Shang dynasty , when instead of enriching gold jewellery it was inset on ivory vessels and used to inlay bronze weapons in a kind of mosaic . |
| 11 | It may be the more difficult case of a temporarily reduced capacity at the time when his decision was made . |
| 12 | By using archival specimens embedded in paraffin to produce a large and immediate specimen pool , perfectly matched samples from the time of diagnosis can be easily generated . |
| 13 | Its simplistic political viewpoint may have correctly reflected attitudes at the time it was set ; but it provided a target for the anti-war movement and provoked demonstrations in many cities world-wide when it was shown . |
| 14 | So it is perhaps not surprising , though it was n't made public at the time , that IBM last year paid a seven figure sum to what was then Interactive Systems Corp for the substantial body of Unix development work that Interactive provided to IBM 's Advanced Interactive Executive , AIX , effort . |
| 15 | It 's cheap , cheerful and trashy but on another level it 's a well focused snapshot of the time of social change , emancipation and free love . |
| 16 | The new shares represent about 3.9% of the enlarged equity on a fully diluted basis at the time of closing . |
| 17 | Blyth Holdings Inc , Foster City , California , says it has closed a private placing , raising $3m from General Reinsurance Corp , representing a 2.7% equity stake on a fully diluted basis at the time of closing . |
| 18 | Before Jessamyn had come to him , he had sometimes spent days at a time sitting in front of the windows in his bedroom , looking at the unchanging , unmoving desert as the sun and the moon did their daily dance . |
| 19 | Very good indeed : The Language of Truth , Art of the Calm , and the horrendously titled Ode to the Time our Memories forgot . |
| 20 | She dressed with consummate elegance , personifying grace both off and on the stage , and she was the most photographed woman of the time . |