Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Deputy Speaker that strong sympathy expressed at the time of the last debate on these matters was approved overwhelmingly by the Labour party conference last October and I state that for the record less there be any misunderstanding about our position on the issue of voting systems . |
| 2 | One afternoon , as I walked under the tall arches of the Palazzo della Pilotta , the immense , pale-pink building constructed in the time of the Farnese with millions of thin bricks , a fat middle-aged man exposed himself to me . |
| 3 | Is the existence of a supportive relationship before an event the critical factor , or can new supportive relationships mobilised at the time of the event be effective ? |
| 4 | This means that it can not be ruled out that new supportive relationships established at the time of a crisis might also sometimes be beneficial . |
| 5 | What would the position be if there was an exceptionally strong gale blowing at the time of the original road accident ? |
| 6 | Just the wee group of us , there 's different groups go at a time |
| 7 | The British authorities argued at the time that the way to tackle this problem of falling competitiveness , far from being to allow the pound to devalue , was to maintain a rigid exchange rate for sterling and so through the resulting high interest rates and tight money ‘ to squeeze inflation out of the system ’ . |
| 8 | Nathan waited patiently for the remissions which made it possible for the ruined mind to function for a time ; he sat by the sick man , who by now was almost blind ; the paralysis was , after all , general . |
| 9 | Later came the Farmans , aptly named ‘ cages à poules ’ , and the Caudrons , of which a French flyer remarked at the time that between these and the current German types ‘ there was all the difference between a lorry and a Rolls Royce ’ . |
| 10 | Forgetting for a moment the totally illogical premise that Welsh teams get dirtier as they get better , I fail to see what useful purpose was served by raking up old controversies dating from a time when most of the current Welsh team were in primary school . |
| 11 | Although the two never met , they both forged a figurative style out of the Abstract Expressionism raging all about them — not the most popular move to make at the time . |
| 12 | Adhesives can be either rubber solution glue or egg white , which was used by the Victorians , and I think it is still the best option as it does not mark the leaves and flowers — commercial glues do after a time . |
| 13 | As a Scottish paper remarked at the time , it was not his first dismissal , ‘ Bremner has had more early baths than a miner on night-shift . ’ |
| 14 | A young Cornish shoemaker married at the time he was setting up on his own : " his wife 's immediate fortune was ten pounds — a sum to him at that time , of great importance " . |
| 15 | He had always been a socialist and a pacifist , a brave position for a man in public life to adopt at the time , and he and his colleagues paid a heavy price for his principles when in 1940 the BBC banned the Glasgow Orpheus Choir from the air waves . |
| 16 | I picked out a selection , deciding on even numbers only because it seemed like a sensible thing to do at the time . |
| 17 | The crew were involved in low level tactical training exercises at the time of the accident . |
| 18 | In these circumstances , any instructions to delete that information from the memory record can present a number of problems ; recalling precisely which information derives from the suspect source and tracing dependent inferences made at the time or later . |
| 19 | b ) Time scale : different forecasting methods will have different value according to the time scale for which they are being applied . |
| 20 | The main right-wing opposition party , National Renewal ( RN ) , criticized the description of the political circumstances existing at the time of the coup , but otherwise gave the report a favourable reception , as did the parties of Aylwin 's centre-left government and the mainstream left . |
| 21 | Mr McGahon 's controversial proposal comes at a time when the British Government is under mounting pressure to radically review what many perceive as an outdated judicial system . |
| 22 | The millions of pounds this district has been able to secure through I D O is testimony to this , despite the rather luke warm support received at the time from the Labour group . |
| 23 | The sturdy Victorian houses spoke of a time when this was a place of substance and quality . |
| 24 | The impending civil action comes at a time when Saunders ' career has reached a new high with eight goals in 10 matches since moving to Villa . |
| 25 | Only fourteen comprehensive schools existed at the time when Tony Crosland was writing : good grammar schools could not simply be swept away , nor the rights and duties of Local Education Authorities brushed aside . |
| 26 | In the same way , he might have looked at the conflicts between institutions , genres and styles during the 1890–1930 period ( for instance , between old-fashioned vaudeville and new syncopated styles ; or between the requirements of public dance and private listening ) , rather than just the more homogeneous synthesis established by the time it ended . |
| 27 | ‘ When Maeve was taken , ’ said Grainne , and those nearest noted that she did not falter over the name , ‘ when Maeve was taken , the huge and fearsome Gateway to the Dark Ireland opened for a time . |
| 28 | Even the early varieties developed in the time of Browning and Tennyson were nothing like the splendours of today , and one wonders what the genius of their poetic expressions would have made of the ethereal glow in the half light of ‘ Super Star ’ ( see page 129 ) , the exquisite shape and deepest of all crimson-black red of ‘ Charles Mallerin ’ or a hundred and one other modern marvels . |
| 29 | The essence of what the popes required of the emperors and how they saw the imperial office is enshrined in the imperial oaths taken at the time of coronation and in the prayer at the conferment of the sword . |
| 30 | But her symbolic stance emerges at a time when there is considerable disquiet over the imaging of children . |