Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If my memory serves me correctly , the very first public outing of the very first public train resulted in a fatality , and one at a mere 12 mph , though doubtless this seemed like the speed of light at the time . |
| 2 | Robert Capa was president of Magnum at the time , and active in its head office . |
| 3 | Charles Short , the surgeon , was Mayor of Bedford at the time and as such , the presiding coroner : |
| 4 | Erm but er when the war finished , when the war finished and the Home Guard stood down , I ca n't remember who was the mayor of Walsall at the time , but they had a reception in the town hall for the Home Guard and everyone that was in the Home Guard was invited before we hand before we st handed our uniforms in , was invited to attend and I must say with great pride that I was can still remember it now , that the wife and I went to the reception and I was in the uniform and it 'd be the mace bearer I presume that was at the door and he asked your name and er rank and he shouted out your name and rank when you went in and you was greeted by the mayor and mayoress inside the ves the hall of the town hall , and erm I mean er quite proud to be Corporal and Mrs you know and it I mean everyone that went , I mean their rank and name and who was with them , you know , was it was quite quite a er er quite a something of to look back to of interest that was , you know , when we stood down . |
| 5 | A crucial distinction turned out to be whether the stimuli were presented only to one side of fixation at a time or simultaneously to both sides . |
| 6 | The Coal Board decided to change the work organisation in order to introduce new coal-cutting equipment capable of cutting a long stretch of wall at a time . |
| 7 | Many of the present team have been with the organisation at least since 1974 when Mr d'Ancona , an assistant secretary with the Department of Energy at the time , was asked to implement a political decision to transfer the headquarters of the fledgling organisation from London to Glasgow . |
| 8 | The man who offered this piece of advice turned out to be Lord Cole , who was chairman of Unilever at the time and went on to be chairman of Rolls-Royce and several other major companies . |
| 9 | Gordon Prentice ( Lab , Pendle ) urged : ‘ Will you join me in condemning the 24 per cent pay increase and the 35 per cent pay increase of the chief executive and chairman of Rolls-Royce at a time when they are sacking 5,000 skilled workers , including 170 in my constituency ? ’ |
| 10 | As stated above , exceptions were introduced for those with very limited means , but these did not prevent a huge storm of protest at the time of the introduction of the new system . |
| 11 | The new styles marked a major change of direction at the time of the Civil Wars ; although they often impinged only indirectly on local farming life , the upheavals of the 1640s were enough to halt the great rebuilding almost entirely . |
| 12 | For instance , at Prudential Assurance , the taxable disturbance allowance of £1724 is paid in two equal instalments ; employees receive one payment of £862 at the time of their transfer and the balance one year later . |
| 13 | The plan was originally for 17,000 MW of coal plant but this was reduced to 11,300 MW and the level of construction at the time of writing suggested that this objective may not be achieved . |
| 14 | In its report and accounts for the year ended 30 June 1992 , the Mutual Accountants Professional Indemnity Company ( MAPIC ) warns of a greater level of claims at a time when competition in the market has tended to depress rates . |
| 15 | Still this little bit of involvement at a time when you think life is going to be much simpler . |
| 16 | That caused a bit of talk at the time . ’ |
| 17 | He staged a counter-attack which brought him back into power in 1769 , but at the price of a financial disaster from which he never recovered ; money was borrowed to buy shares with which to create votes for the election of directors at a time when the value of the Company 's stock collapsed . |
| 18 | William Bayles Hauxwell fought mightily to keep pace with the ceaseless tide of farmwork at a time when mechanization and all the labour-saving devices now taken for granted in agriculture were but a distant dream in Baldersdale . |
| 19 | Donald Woods , 58 , was the only white members of the governing council of the South African Cricket Board of Control at the time of his arrest and banning in Johannesburg by state decree in October 1977 . |
| 20 | A candidate may present information , relevant to his examination performance which , in his view , was not in the possession of the Board of Examiners at the time of the Board 's initial decision about his academic progress . |
| 21 | Yes , Winston Churchill was the President of the Board of Trade at the time , and he actually sponsored the legislation . |
| 22 | There was not much sale for that kind of thing at the time of Hilbert 's marriage . |
| 23 | It had seemed an expedient course of action at the time , as she 'd waited there in her kitchen , in the late afternoon dark , for Wakelate and his client to return to the house . |
| 24 | Secondly , the procedure can be divorced from the normal day/night cycle , and thereby allow insemination of eggs at a time which permits study of a subsequent developmental stage during normal working hours . |
| 25 | He studied at the University of Oxford at a time when Colet had thrown off the old method of scholastic teaching , which consisted of repeating the comments of previous interpreters of the Bible , and instead , in his lectures on St Paul 's Epistles , was explaining their historic background and expounding their spiritual truths . |
| 26 | Although art 4 appears to apply the test of unfairness at the time the contract was entered into ( like the UCTA ) , the standard of reasonableness does not equate exactly with the unfairness test in the Directive . |
| 27 | However , the allegation that Hazelwood had been under the influence of alcohol at the time of the disaster was contradicted by a number of witnesses at his trial , which opened in Anchorage , Alaska , on Jan. 29 , 1990 , after a six-month delay . |
| 28 | It amounted , they said , to a total alteration of the law of the land and the establishment of a permanent act of insolvency at a time when trade was embarrassed and credit had sunk to its lowest ebb . |
| 29 | The publication of details at the time would not have helped the morale of the Allies , but it was impossible to prevent the incident being talked about by servicemen in the area . |
| 30 | The real difficulty lies in the fact that CD-ROM can only process one type of data at a time . |