Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr. Elliott detects in it ‘ a desire by the composer to accommodate progressive ideas about clear word-setting and harmonic , chordal idioms ’ : he has elsewhere invoked the violent and repressive political climate of the time , and seen an attempt by Carver to compromise — in a period of Protestant fundamentalism which had limited the formerly sumptuous musical presentations in the Chapel Royal to plainchant and Faburden improvised upon it — with the strictly harmonically-conceived music of English Reformation composers . |
| 2 | It is quite clear that nothing is missing from the other end of the Interludium as it was copied on to this vellum : the vellum had already been cut to its surviving top edge by the time the Interludium came to be written on to it . |
| 3 | The films had a sense of urgency that the rest of mainstream British cinema at the time largely lacked , but their directors did n't have enough personal contact with the lives of their characters to offer visions that rang true . |
| 4 | The influence of the Opus Dei lay catholic movement , whose members dominated Francoist economic policy for a time from the late 1950s , was particularly strong in RENFE . |
| 5 | Another mode of preservation of Tertiary plants is beneath flows of lava ( Oregon and the island of Skye , for example ) where whole floras can be preserved in enough detail to reconstruct the detailed botanical ecology of the time . |
| 6 | On this occasion Mr David Butler will have an even finer collection of predictions to record in his book about the election than he did in 1970 , when almost every distinguished political correspondent of the time echoed Peter Jenkins of the Guardian in asking ‘ Why is Labour winning with such apparent ease ? ’ , just before Ted Heath won by a majority of 43 . |
| 7 | In political terms the myth preserves some dim historical elements of a time during the Predynastic Period when Egypt was divided into two kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt , each with its own ruler . |
| 8 | The research aims to fill these two gaps , by focusing on six key decisions in British foreign policy in the time between the Munich agreement and the German invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 . |
| 9 | There was then no one in Oxford working in cosmology , but at Cambridge there was Fred Hoyle , the most distinguished British astronomer of the time . |
| 10 | Firstly , because there are wide variations between different ethnic groups in the time of arrival in this country and their age on entry , the numbers of those who have reached advanced years , in general small , differs greatly between groups . |
| 11 | In one Sir Peter Middleton , the department 's top civil servant at the time , said it ‘ would be unreasonable ’ for Mr Lamont to pay all of the £23,000 bill he faced last April . |
| 12 | That was a form of punishment reserved for English Tory Members at the time |
| 13 | Elected in 1978 , it is hardly surprising that John Paul should see his task as the re-establishment of order and confidence on pretty traditional lines , though his charismatic personality shown forth throughout the world in an unending series of exciting international tours for a time almost concealed what was going on . |
| 14 | More people were put to death in Ireland than died in the French revolutionary Terror of the time . |
| 15 | " Bourgeois culture is a barrier , a luxury , a corruption of man , an instrument of warfare " , he vehemently proclaimed in 1930.12 This negative , retrospective condemnation of the cultural values encoded in the French middle-class schooling of the time should not , however , divert attention from the fact that in 1916–17 the educational system was perceived by the child Nizan as the only available route to personal salvation and success . |
| 16 | The correct word is the highest scoring 65% of the time , and within the top five 85% of the time . |
| 17 | Oswald had been brought up as a Christian prince in Celtic lands from the age of 12 , so it was perhaps natural for him to look to an Irish religious foundation for ecclesiastical and spiritual direction , and it may be that these overtures to Iona also reflect a dependence on Dalriadic military support at the time of his accession . |
| 18 | BAT , which had refused to take action against its main French financial advisers at the time Sir James 's assault was mounted , has decided to appoint Credit Lyonnais . |
| 19 | It was a victory for Mrs Thatcher — though a debatable one since it largely snuffed out the power of British local government at a time when many other European countries were trying to decentralize and devolve . |
| 20 | Mountbatten tried to reassure him , but added , ‘ I foresee having to fight a civil war against 10000 armed Burmese soldiers at a time when it is vital that my forces should be better employed . ’ |
| 21 | Well , the legislation in Britain , the first law which is the law from which our present wages councils for people like hairdressers came from erm was passed in nineteen oh nine , and it was because we had a reforming Liberal Government at the time . |
| 22 | In agricultural terms the death and resurrection of Osiris as a very early nature god were celebrated each year in simple popular ceremonies at the time of the Nile flood , when the seed crop was sown and when the harvest was gathered . |
| 23 | The present and devastated position of the socially assisted underclass has been identified as the most serious social problem of the time , as it is also the greatest threat to long-run peace and civility . |
| 24 | ( a ) Questions surfaced about the tapping of the telephones of the Canadian High Commission at the time of the proposed repatriation of the Canadian Constitution . |
| 25 | so much for its call-out fixed charge plus the time . |
| 26 | The Soviet Writers ' Congress is consequently a symbol of the global politico-cultural developments of the time , a moment when cultural production was publicly recognized as a powerful weapon to combat an increasingly dangerous fascist threat . |
| 27 | The typical Orbison single contained more drama and incident than the average 90-minute movie of the time , and ‘ Running Scared ’ was one of his finest . |
| 28 | THE collections in the National Museum are impressive : an entire Roman mosaic floor from the time of Marcus Aurelian and a beautiful stele of Orpheus playing to the animals . |
| 29 | But nowhere does the Trust help me much with the only truly interesting questions about Cragside : — what was the first Lord Armstrong 's annual income ? — from what was it derived ? — what was the annual average industrial wage at the time ? — how much did he pay his gardeners and his tweeny maids ? — what kind of employer was he to his workforce ? |
| 30 | Indeed the lasting effect of this period is seen better in the political pressure groups — the Gay and Women 's Liberation movements — which it spawned than in the actual pop music of the time . |