Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , great pastor , preacher , and luminous expounder of the faith though he was , and moderate though his views were on most matters concerning the relations between the Church and secular society , his most cherished views were all doomed to failure from the start : they neither moved with the times , nor stood firm in the practical conveniences of the past . |
| 2 | Then , as Michael McCarthy reported in The Times on 9 September 1989 , ‘ Europe 's biggest reservoir was closed to people and animals after the discovery of a possibly poisonous bloom of algae in the water . ’ |
| 3 | At the same time two of the nine popularly elected representatives , Akilisi Pohive ( leader of the dissident pro-democracy movement ) and Viliami Fukofuka , were each reported by the Times of Tonga to have returned about 12,000 pa'anga to the Treasury on the grounds that overtime payment for members of the Assembly was immoral and increased the financial burden on the people . |
| 4 | Publicity accelerated as the Times Beach residents scattered , and government technicians moved in late last year . |
| 5 | As Frank Johnson commented in The Times , my appearance on the short walk between the Grand Hotel and the conference centre provoked uproar from the watching demonstrators . |
| 6 | Benjamin Cotton replied to the Times advertisement and undertook to ‘ preserve the mahogany doors ( still in fine fettle ) , to turn the pantry and store room into a servants ’ hall , and the brew house and cart stable into loose boxes . ’ |
| 7 | He agreed with The Times that imprisonment at the discretion of the creditor was a really powerful engine for extracting from the debtor any property he had concealed or done away with . |
| 8 | Her love for Maman , with its consuming passion to please , belonged to the times before Maman had , as she now realized , so gallantly followed her love . |
| 9 | In fact , it was while he was up for the interview that he read in The Times the advertisement that had brought him to Burleigh : |
| 10 | ‘ If you worked for the Times you 'd have known John . |
| 11 | Julian Barnes ( pictured left ) was then on the staff of the Oxford English Dictionary Supplement , and Martin Amis worked for the Times Literary Supplement . |
| 12 | She thought of the times she had put her hand into Nick 's , how she had sat beside him on the grass only half an hour ago . |
| 13 | Forbes thus had to wait for fifteen years or so before the coveted post came up ; during this time Jameson sometimes teetered but always recovered , and his courses and museum fell behind the times . |
| 14 | I did it so quickly , all the rest , I thought with The Times crossword , I 'm , I whooping through this like mad . |
| 15 | Perhaps the problem lay with the times . |
| 16 | I laughed at the times people had used that sentence to me . |
| 17 | A plan of it had appeared in the Architects ' Journal the previous Friday , and it also appeared in The Times the morning after the Prince 's speech . |
| 18 | Indeed , three Conservative MPs — W.J. Anstruther-Gray , J. Scrymgeour-Wedderburn and T.J. O'Connor — had rushed straight from Olympia to Printing House Square to hand in a letter which subsequently appeared in The Times . |
| 19 | The following morning a photograph of a dejected-looking Lord Ferrers appeared in The Times , brows furrowed , mouth glum as a basset hound . |
| 20 | Before the patient left St Mary 's Hospital , a leading article headed ‘ Penicillium ’ appeared in The Times and a few days later a letter was published from Sir Almroth Wright claiming Fleming as the discoverer of penicillin . |
| 21 | Two days after the debate , on 6th August , 1859 , a leader appeared in The Times which not only questioned Scott 's suitability for the appointment , but also the new attitude of the professional architect towards his client . |
| 22 | In December a series of articles appeared in The Times by two journalists , Pat Butcher and Peter Nichols , on drug abuse in athletics . |
| 23 | He saw to it that notices of the birth appeared in The Times and the Telegraph within another twenty-four hours . |
| 24 | During 1970 and 1971 a series of articles and editorials appeared in the Times on the poor quality of TVZ transmissions , particularly on the Copperbelt . |
| 25 | Dyson then went about the task of enlisting support for the organisation , a process which was successful , as can be seen from the thirty-three signatories ( including Lord Attlee , the Bishops of Birmingham and Exeter , Isaiah Berlin , Julian Huxley , Bertrand Russell ) to the letter that appeared in The Times in March 1958 . |
| 26 | Although it is difficult to assess its importance , on the eve of the second reading debate a letter appeared in The Times , signed by eight peers , including Lord Devlin . |
| 27 | " I 'm referring to a leading article which appeared in The Times concerning the Exhibition and which I should like to read you ( by a fortunate chance I happen to have it on my person ) . |
| 28 | Happily , a footnote in her diary for 19 December 1975 states that , ‘ His letter , condemning industrial action by the consultants , duly appeared in The Times on 22 December 1975 . ’ |
| 29 | THE OBITUARY APPEARED in The Times the next day , Tuesday 11th December . |
| 30 | The ‘ special areas ’ legislation of the prewar national coalition government stemmed partly from a series of unsigned articles — ‘ Places without a Future ’ — which he wrote for The Times in 1934 . |