Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That was a form of punishment reserved for English Tory Members at the time |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ( 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Craig Brown , the under-21 team manager , has lost three of his current squad — Ferguson , Booth and Wright — to the full squad and has decided to stand down the rest of his Premier Division-based players at a time when league commitments in England have deprived him of Anglos . |
| 13 | By the late 1960s the emphasis of government policy was on the creation of new irrigation complexes , covering an additional million acres at a time when Gezira was experiencing major problems of productivity . |
| 14 | Well I 'm off next week , Thursday we got an extra four packets at the time . |
| 15 | The purchase and sale of the land was carried out at fixed 1945 prices at a time of rampant inflation , which meant that landlords were virtually expropriated and farmers were able to pay off the purchase price and own their land outright in a year or two . |
| 16 | Chaplin was certainly a humanitarian with strong socialist leanings at a time when to appear even remotely pink was begging for trouble . |
| 17 | What did you think about about the the Parliamentary Labour Party at the time ? |
| 18 | Nietzsche 's varied contributions included poems , essays oil historiography and discussions of the medieval Nibelungen saga , but mostly consisted of musical compositions , an indication of his predominant artistic interest at the time . |
| 19 | Thus the ladder is sinking into the ground one step at a time as the client climbs on to it . |
| 20 | Its extended opening hours uptown to 8 p.m. six nights a week and downtown to 10 p.m. on Thursday , Friday and Saturday , will trawl a large local audience at a time when the Whitney Museum is closing on Monday and Tuesday , as will its heavyweight exhibition programme , concentrating upon the century 's major historical developments and established personalities . |
| 21 | We were both strong healthy girls at the time , and thought nothing of the dream ; it was just a curiosity ; but she did in fact die two years later — very suddenly , very unexpectedly , of an infection . |
| 22 | You 're sure to spend a good few hours at the time playing this fun sports sim — so do n't for get the suntan oil ! |
| 23 | The boys-only choir will ensure the continuity of a traditional male choir at a time when the authenticity of musical performance still receives widespread emphasis . |
| 24 | Recently , experimental work has investigated the use of the programmed technique in what is now called computer-assisted learning , where the programmes are fed into the computer ; the machine can then , if the initial preparation has been thorough enough , monitor the responses of a great many students at a time , switching them to the appropriate branching sequence as their responses demonstrate the need . |
| 25 | This ‘ cleanness ’ was not an exclusively English taste ( even if it is elaborated for us in the poems of an exceptional writer ) , for Sir Gawayn and the Green Knight is outstandingly ‘ French ’ among the English romances and gives a superbly articulate voice to international courtly values at a time when art-historians begin to speak of an International Style in the visual arts . |
| 26 | Such a move would , they said , impose severe hardship and very great practical problems at a time when the families had more than enough distress to cope with . |
| 27 | The data were obtained from Department of Education and Science statistics for education in the United Kingdom ( 1984 ) that included data on the distribution of full-time teachers in maintained secondary schools at the time of my study as shown in Table 6.1 . |
| 28 | One story that surfaced late in 1982 told of a bold Iraqi initiative at the time . |
| 29 | Important theoretical influences at the time were the writings of Bernstein , Illich and Freire . |
| 30 | Exploratory analysis identified nine other risk factors : prior slow healing was associated with decreased healing rates at two , four , and eight weeks but the remainder — multiple ulcers , a large ulcer , prior complications , unemployment divorce , excess dietary energy intake in relation to physical activity , abstention from wine , and a deformed duodenal bulb at the time of healing — had less prolonged effects . |