Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb pp] [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 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Whilst we should be sceptical of rhetorical strategies adopted for tactical reasons , the opinions of prominent Tories expressed at the time of the Revolution itself deserve to be given more weight . |
| 13 | When contemplating the history of the palazzo you have to wonder whether there might not have been some truth in an ancient prophecy made at the time when Alessi began work on the building . |
| 14 | Michael made a good recovery , and was well enough to enjoy the international conference given at the time of his retirement . |
| 15 | Walden away to my left was patterned with meticulously regular fields built during the time of the later enclosures . |
| 16 | These records provide invaluable information compiled at the time of the event concerned , and are often illustrated with photographs , leaflets and other memorabilia . |
| 17 | As a British prime minister remarked at the time , people had never had it so good . |
| 18 | The key document circulated at the time was Raoul Vaneigen 's Totality For Kids which was hailed by its supporters as doing for the twentieth century what Marx had done for the nineteenth . |
| 19 | The church was held back from full-scale episcopal organization by the thought of the expense and the political commitment involved at a time when ‘ a prince of the church ’ was a perfectly reasonable way to describe a bishop . |
| 20 | In August 1333 the king declared that divers woods and other places in Surrey had been unjustifiably disafforested under colour of the Statute of 1327 : there was evidence in ‘ divers inquisitions taken in the time of his progenitors and … other memoranda in the Exchequer ’ that they ought to remain in the forest . |
| 21 | Whether or not the Communist leaders really believed this or any other of the sweeping statements made at the time is questionable . |
| 22 | This distracting racket pitched in every time I came out of a corner and put on the power in the Formula First single-seat racing car I was driving . |
| 23 | It is a romantic adventure set in a time when the role of women was very much restricted by dress and their rights , but compared to ‘ Anna Karenina ’ it is a modern novel , first published in 1941 . |
| 24 | More often than not , oils chosen this way turn out to be the very ones needed at the time , and as the person 's physical and emotional state alters , so might their aroma preference . |
| 25 | and governments themselves have a relatively short lifespan compared with the time scale for the generation and implementation of policy . |
| 26 | but choice it is , choice of alignments with the social or political forces presented at the time . |
| 27 | There is then a carefully chosen extract from the writer 's work , followed by a bibliography , which not only includes references to critical responses done at the time of publication but modern reassessments as well . |
| 28 | Two days later a new political movement was formed joining the defunct PSU and the Nouvelle Gauche ( a dissident communist movement established at the time of the 1988 presidential elections and led by Pierre Juquin — see p. 35979 for his candidature ) . |
| 29 | This enabled companies not only to cut costs but also by-pass awkward labour-protection laws introduced during the time of the left-wing military dictatorship . |
| 30 | In the case considered the motion is transverse to OA , and so the curvature is that of the geodesic surface defined by the time direction and the spatial direction transverse to OA . |