Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [prep] the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ wilfully and indecently ’ 'Wilfully' can be proved from the accused 's own admission or from his comments or actions at the time of the offence . |
| 2 | These , it was argued , concern the correction of errors of fact or omissions at the time of birth . |
| 3 | For framework knitters in the hosiery manufacture of the east Midlands , their historian William Felkin described a golden age lasting from 1755 to 1785 , but a more recent authority has suggested that although knitters by the time of Luddism 's outbreak in 1811 looked back to pre-war wages of 10 to 12s ( 50-60p ) for plain work and up to 30s ( £1.50 ) for skilled , they were generally prosperous down to 1809 . |
| 4 | The ‘ flak helpers ’ had been little more than children at the time of Hitler 's great ‘ triumphs ’ , and in the hail of bombs , the destruction , and the retreating armies , the remaining image of the Führer as the military genius bore scant relation to their daily experience of reality . |
| 5 | Charged with meting out rights and privileges for all beings and entities at the time of Creation , he carried a small leather pouch on one hip containing the charms for immortality and reincarnation , while a large stone bucket to his other side contained materials for instigating death and decay . |
| 6 | The same story could be read in an expanded and slightly modified form in the Historiae Philippicae by Trogus Pompeius , a Celt who retailed Massaliote traditions and nostalgias at the time of Augustus . |
| 7 | Another sign of attachment is the revival of the art of cameo-cutting , beginning with the commissions bestowed by popes , prelates and connoisseurs at the time of the Renaissance , persisting through the period of bourgeois dominance and continuing into the present age of enfranchisement even to the point at which resort has had to be made to substitute materials like shell or paste to satisfy a greatly enlarged market . |
| 8 | Such being the direct evidence for contacts between Greeks and Jews before the time of Alexander , we ask the obvious question : what did Greeks and Jews make of these various opportunities for meeting and knowing each other As for the Greeks , the answer is simple . |
| 9 | The shares were the remainder of those allotted to Abbey National savers and borrowers at the time of its flotation . |
| 10 | It will depend on the characteristic experiences of women and men at the time of its formulation , and on the way they have entered into philosophical discourse . |
| 11 | The defence counsel , William Totten , told the High Court in Edinburgh that Storrie had been under the influence of drink and drugs at the time of the offences . |
| 12 | It is believed that the Yukagir people had many languages and dialects at the time of the Russian conquest , although only a small remnant of this nationality survives today . |
| 13 | The author 's experience and intentions at the time of writing are matters of purely historical interest , that do not — contrary to the ‘ intentional fallacy ’ — in any way determine the meaning , effect or function of his creation . |