Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British authorities argued at the time that the way to tackle this problem of falling competitiveness , far from being to allow the pound to devalue , was to maintain a rigid exchange rate for sterling and so through the resulting high interest rates and tight money ‘ to squeeze inflation out of the system ’ . |
| 2 | Unfortunately one was having its innards repaired at the time and another gave up the ghost after operating for all of a second . |
| 3 | Interestingly , The Times reported at the time that not enough professional people served on juries , and that manual workers and the unemployed did not ‘ represent a cross section of society ’ made up by juries . |
| 4 | Vaquero offers the city-bound reader a few minutes to escape to a time and place that we are losing ’ . |
| 5 | At London 's new Lanesborough Hotel , public area lighting is linked by a timer to an outdoor sensor which controls the lights according to the time or cloud cover . |
| 6 | There is a double stillage with casks marked with the time as well as the date . |
| 7 | This argument is untenable as some of the most dramatic changes in behaviour by American hospitals occurred at the time that the prospective payment system was introduced , when only 10% of hospitals were private , for profit institutions , and there is considerable evidence that , especially for rural hospitals in the United States , the threat has indeed been to survival . |
| 8 | Police said at the time that it looked like the work of the IRA . |
| 9 | The single-copy fallacy operates here strongly , for the only way to study the Convention is through copies in the ‘ real world ’ : that is copies obtained at the time and held since by those who attended or their heirs . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As Eric Fawcett recalls , ‘ It was a polymer so unlike the polymers known at the time that no one could envisage a use for it . |
| 12 | The vessel was probably made in the East Celtic area during the second or first century B.C. The representations give some insight into the deities imagined at the time as well as into some of the rituals involved in their worship . |