Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [noun prp] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Darulhadis would thus , arguably , have been the ranking medrese in Edirne at the time . |
| 2 | I 've got one in Battle on Tudor Battle , all about the dissolution of Battle Abbey and erm what happened to the town afterwards ; one on Elizabethan Rye , which is erm was notable because it was the largest place in Sussex at the time , a very important port , a lot of trade for London went through Rye , and there 's a lot of stuff relating to piracy and erm warfare . |
| 3 | I 've got one in Battle on Tudor Battle , all about the dissolution of Battle Abbey and erm what happened to the town afterwards , one on Elizabethan Rye , which is erm was notable because it was the largest place in Sussex at the time , very important port , lot of trade for London went to Rye , and there 's a lot of stuff relating to piracy and erm warfare . |
| 4 | In a new burst of corporate energy , the choir was demolished in Anselm 's day , and replaced by a structure in proportions and plan unlike any other in England at the time . |
| 5 | There is some evidence that Oswald , while an exile , may have fought in Ireland — according to one story in the retinue of the Uí Néill king of Tara — and Moliant Cadwallon refers obliquely to Cadwallon 's sojourn in Ireland during the time of Eadwine 's attack on Gwynedd . |
| 6 | In view of her absence in Norway at the time , and the need for regents during her minority , six guardians of the kingdom were appointed . |
| 7 | It has been said , for example , that of all the species alive in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania at the time early man arrived there , only 60 per cent survived to the present day . |
| 8 | A friend of Apollinaire , Soffici was possibly the only man in Italy at the time with a clear idea of Cubism and its aims , and in contrasting it with the work of the young Futurists no doubt felt that his strictures were justified . |
| 9 | It is important to remember the political position of the monarchy in England at the time . |
| 10 | To do this he put forward in his submission a detailed plan for the employment of his unit in the offensive being planned by Auchinleck to take place in November , which was no secret in Cairo at the time . |
| 11 | I 've seen them towing across the sky with Beecham 's Pills written on them er it was a familiar sight in Walsall at the time , and also sometimes they had a plane sky-writing and they used to write Rinso in smoke in the sky . |
| 12 | You deprived me of the chance to be there for him , and for my mother , when he was dying , because there were n't any jobs going in radio in Johannesburg at the time , so I had to go to Durban . |
| 13 | This was a somewhat idealised view which did not truly reflect the political reality in England at the time . |
| 14 | According to Morolli : ‘ The seed sown by Lorenzo eventually came to fruition in Rome in the time of his son Giovanni , the future Pope Leo X. Seen in this light , Bramante and Raphael are the products of Florentine taste ’ . |
| 15 | To the contrary , said white-haired Donald Winters , CIA station chief in Panama at the time , who met frequently with Noriega to trade information about Cuba , Nicaragua and El Salvador . |
| 16 | The railway ghost caused a great stir in Darlington at the time but many were very sceptical about its bona fides . |
| 17 | I was with a small company in Strasbourg at the time . |
| 18 | It thereby created the largest telecommunications company in Europe at the time . |
| 19 | The initial impetus came from the Managing Director of one of the largest of the Harris Tweed manufacturers — the son of a crofter and himself a fisherman in his early days The Association was , however , given its distinctive shape and its constitution by the first chairman , Rev. Ian Carmichael , a Gaelic-speaker from Lismore who was a minister in Stornoway at the time , and who had had considerable experience of welfare work in industry , and had been for some years vice convener of one of the largest local authorities in Scotland . |
| 20 | Still , nobody mentioned that Levi was dominating the USPGA Tour , or that he was the best player in America at the time . |
| 21 | There was , however , a senior general , Catroux , representing the Free French in Egypt at the time , and it is more probable that it was he who interviewed Stirling . |
| 22 | It brilliantly combines a legitimate trepidation about the Nazis with a certain ambivalence ( perhaps typical of those on the bourgeois Left in Britain at the time ) about the Russian bears who may or may not have been rescuing him , resolved in the end by the arrival of the charming governess — " better keep a hold on Nurse , just in case of something worse " ! |
| 23 | Instead of the present arrangements which have served us so well , a politician in London for the time being Home Secretary will appoint five members to the authority , or roughly a third when the size of the authority is larger than sixteen . |
| 24 | In such conditions some of the turbine blades would glow at a dull red heat , and this represented the practical limit for ferritic steel : higher temperatures could only be attained with the use of special ( austenitic ) steels , which were in short supply in Britain at the time . |
| 25 | Robert Jeffrey was brought up by his stepfather in Polperro at the time of the Napoleonic wars . |
| 26 | Arthur and Helena Naulls had had their Golden Wedding party in November about the time of Stephen 's own twenty-first birthday . |
| 27 | The Smallholders ' Party was the largest political party in Hungary at the time of its dissolution in 1948 . |