Example sentences of "[that] [prep] [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , we can not be sure , for it is clear that from Mesolithic times onwards the frequency of brachycephaly was increasing continually in some parts of Europe . |
| 2 | The story , in brief , is that in colonial times the British banks would not lend to Sri Lankans , except to the very wealthy or very influential . |
| 3 | The story goes that in colonial times , La Paz 's upper classes used to hold a three-day festival in the main square , graciously dispensing banknotes and coins to their children and servants . |
| 4 | ‘ But here we are , drinking wine sitting on a bed that in former times would have been on fire by now . ’ |
| 5 | Chan makes the point that in recent times academics have fared better than the average urban worker . |
| 6 | The irony is that in recent times , Parliament as a whole has demonstrated its interest in accountability as a constitutional principle . |
| 7 | The Irish Bank Officials ’ Association , over the years , has made a tremendous contribution to the welfare of its members and we know that in recent times IBOA has been engaged in many struggles to protect those terms and conditions . |
| 8 | Local folklore has it that in prehistoric times men drove wild cattle to their deaths over Combe Scar and ate them where they fell at the foot of the crag ( cattle bones are reputed to have been found there ) . |
| 9 | In place of the nineteenth-century sense of a succession of literary historical " periods " , scholars have now revealed a continuum of " interlocking elements " making it clear that in all times the " spirit of literature " is one . |
| 10 | It is curious that in modern times the Cabinet , though it has always insisted on considering particular proposals for developments of policy and their cost , has never thought it necessary to review the development of expenditure under the Civil Estimates as a whole . |
| 11 | Oakeshott argues that in modern times the conception of the state as universitas has taken hold , primarily as a result of the extension of the executive apparatus of civil rule . |
| 12 | It is not surprising that in modern times English and Commonwealth courts should try to avoid its worse consequences or , as one of Llewellyn 's bêtes noire , that the Uniform Commercial Code should abandon it . |
| 13 | You know , cos I 'm , I 'm spending money and time on him that really has those in theory I would be spending on my own grand children , however , I take the attitude that in modern times , people do n't , people are not obliged |
| 14 | Tracing this back to the seventeenth century , he points out that in such times , it is ‘ always those crimes that are associated with the materially disadvantaged underclass which have provided the continuing thread within this history of respectable fears … |
| 15 | In his book Poetic Diction he had pointed out that in earlier times , those who first used language did not necessarily distinguish between ‘ metaphorical ’ and ‘ literal ’ uses of words . |
| 16 | Modern man must remember that in earlier times people washed less frequently and that , however chauvinistic we may find it today , women were usually available to fetch water whenever it was needed , even over a distance of several miles . |
| 17 | Excavations elsewhere have demonstrated that in pre-Norman times small hamlets and farmsteads were widespread , occupying even the most inhospitable upland sites . |
| 18 | From the point of view of politics , the meaning is that in exceptional times , one does well to join with the lowly , for this affords the possibility of renewal . |
| 19 | The old cliché has it that in hard times pop culture goes soft , entertainment becomes more trivial , more ‘ escapist ’ . |
| 20 | In my ignorance of the situation , however , I conjectured that in these times of diminishing reactor safety research budgets , there might have to be a choice on the part of some countries between the two projects — but , ‘ tremendous hindrance ’ ! |
| 21 | It 's just that in these times … ’ |
| 22 | He was probably thinking that in these times it was not worth taking the risk of offending anyone , just in case they were agents of Horemheb and you ended up in an emerald mine on the Eastern Coast . |
| 23 | It is true that in later times particular questions arising in a case before him , suitable for trial by jury , are sometimes directed by the Chancellor to be so tried . |
| 24 | Over the centuries these Greeks and Karians intermarried with the natives , so that in hellenistic times people called ‘ Karomemphites ’ and ‘ Hellenomemphites ’ , obvious results of miscegenation , are attested in Memphis . |
| 25 | We spoke in earlier chapters of people 's search for meaning as they look for the person who has died , and saw that at such times a sortie into faith healing or clairvoyance is quite common . |
| 26 | It was strange , but he imagined that at such times as this , when there was only himself and his mother in the house , the building had left its base and was afloat in the air . |
| 27 | I have this theory that at such times he 's communing with the mother ship which gave him his mission on this planet , but then I could be wrong . |
| 28 | As we shall see in 6.3 , the interrupt facility can be expanded to switch instruction sequences on the occurrence of many different events ; further we will see the need for a means of ensuring that at critical times the computer is able to ignore all but a subset of these events . |
| 29 | The tidal reach of the sea fills the lake so that at all times the water is brackish . |
| 30 | The evidence of video films is that the police advanced at a trot and that at all times they were controlled . |