Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although most biographers ( encouraged by Darwin 's own recollections ) have played down the Edinburgh episode , the most recent studies have noted that he developed an interest in invertebrate zoology here that was to form a mainstay of his scientific work through into the time of the Beagle voyage . |
| 2 | The report , commissioned by the Archbishop of Lyon , Cardinal Albert Decourtray shortly after Touvier 's arrest in May 1989 at a monastery in Nice [ see pp. 37019 ; 37899 ] , said that while the church as a body was not involved in assisting Touvier , senior churchmen had provided material support and the Catholic charity , Secours Catholique , had paid him a monthly stipend up to the time of his arrest . |
| 3 | The Poles had maintained a very efficient educational system under a special national commission up to the time of the partition . |
| 4 | The trouble is that he ca n't recreate the formula , so he is pretty teed off by the time his fund manager Dr Crane ( Lorraine Bracco ) turns up to find out what 's going on . |
| 5 | Yes , well er I was saying er it was this Mr I think it was , but it was to do with er a big firm in at the time and they wanted er some locks at Liverpool |
| 6 | Since 15 million years is a very short period in terms of evolution , we have to conclude that there were some big whales around at the time of the catastrophe . |
| 7 | Had n't Naylor Massingham been the only other person around at the time of that incident ? |
| 8 | In many cases the actual amount of information given in the recalls was minimal , limited to whether a subject had to wait at the junction and whether there was other traffic around at the time . |
| 9 | The Rhine was the eastern boundary of the Carolingian Franks up to the time of Charlemagne . |
| 10 | The new interpretation seems to push Hallucigenia , the Chinese fossils , and some other species around at the time ( including another of the Burgess oddballs , Aysheaia ) into the arthropod phylum , with insects , crabs and trilobites . |
| 11 | The aircraft , a well used Boeing 707/436 , had spent much of its life on the trunk routes of BOAC and it had accumulated about 47 000 flying hours up to the time when the crack was discovered . |