Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was a form of punishment reserved for English Tory Members at the time |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well I 'm off next week , Thursday we got an extra four packets at the time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Chaplin was certainly a humanitarian with strong socialist leanings at a time when to appear even remotely pink was begging for trouble . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Important theoretical influences at the time were the writings of Bernstein , Illich and Freire . |
| 17 | He claimed she had been in severe financial difficulties at the time . |
| 18 | Certainly his spell in Africa coincided with a period of great upheaval in the former empire countries that accounted for much of Grant 's small overseas markets at the time . |
| 19 | There is strong evidence suggesting the Vincennes was inside Iranian territorial waters at the time . |
| 20 | The irony is , of course , that we are usually sitting in one of the three newly refurbished SUSA-run bars at the time , drinking a SUSA-subsidised pint , poured by a member of the SUSA bar staff . |
| 21 | It introduces inflexibility and excessive bureaucratic controls at a time when the industry needs to be able to develop along economic lines . |
| 22 | One of the most common practical problems at the time of someone 's death is that there are lots of extra expenses involved and yet it is not possible to get hold of cash or obtain access to funds because financial accounts have to be reorganized following the death of the person concerned . |
| 23 | Two million pounds was voted for ‘ Project Tiger ’ , as the Indian version of the WWF operation was called , an incredible sum in view of India 's other economic problems at the time . |
| 24 | During the nineteenth century , the cattle of Friesland in particular were being selected locally for black-and-white pied coats at a time when the cattle of other provinces were of various colours and types . |
| 25 | What were the what were the main major products at the time ? |