Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [noun pl] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catherine or St Catherine 's Hill itself constituted a Pandora 's box of small-town trades and occupations at the time : everything from a gingerbread maker to a hairdresser , a staymaker , a breechesmaker , Charles Tucker the coalminer , John Golledge the blind schoolmaster , Mrs Allen at the Castle public house , and even John Ward , who seemed to be able to support himself by practising the noble art of a ‘ horse jockey ’ . |
| 2 | Royalties and celebrities of the time were the subjects . |
| 3 | Lutyens and his friends , among them Sir Lawrence Weaver , Director Designate of the United Kingdom exhibits at the exhibition , quickly realised that the building of the dolls ' house could easily be integrated into this project , and would be an invaluable advertisement to promote the names and products of the top British designers , craftsmen and artists of the time . |
| 4 | Another sign of attachment is the revival of the art of cameo-cutting , beginning with the commissions bestowed by popes , prelates and connoisseurs at the time of the Renaissance , persisting through the period of bourgeois dominance and continuing into the present age of enfranchisement even to the point at which resort has had to be made to substitute materials like shell or paste to satisfy a greatly enlarged market . |
| 5 | The shares were the remainder of those allotted to Abbey National savers and borrowers at the time of its flotation . |
| 6 | Erm attacking the social forms and customs of the time . |
| 7 | The historian , Minois , has delved systematically into the changing status of older people in history , and he has been able to link these changes to the dominant social ideas and circumstances of the time . |
| 8 | The same story could be read in an expanded and slightly modified form in the Historiae Philippicae by Trogus Pompeius , a Celt who retailed Massaliote traditions and nostalgias at the time of Augustus . |
| 9 | Such being the direct evidence for contacts between Greeks and Jews before the time of Alexander , we ask the obvious question : what did Greeks and Jews make of these various opportunities for meeting and knowing each other As for the Greeks , the answer is simple . |
| 10 | These objects were often used to exemplify the competing images of the Romantic and nobel primitive and the cannibalistic barbarian as suited the arguments or interests of the time . |
| 11 | ‘ wilfully and indecently ’ 'Wilfully' can be proved from the accused 's own admission or from his comments or actions at the time of the offence . |
| 12 | It must be stressed that these aspects can only be considered in the context of the tax rates and rules at the time . |
| 13 | It is believed that the Yukagir people had many languages and dialects at the time of the Russian conquest , although only a small remnant of this nationality survives today . |
| 14 | Did you go with you know your friends and comrades at the time ? |
| 15 | Newspapers and periodicals of the time , such Punch and the Illustrated London News , were full of cartoons and illustrations of the despised tourist . |
| 16 | So I was learning from my own mistakes and others at the time er things like getting the right county where the New Brighton happen to be and things like that I was learning . |
| 17 | [ Archives in Museum of the History of Science , Oxford , especially MSS Museum 29 , 62 , and 89 ; obituary by C. V. Boys in Proceedings of the Royal Society , series A , vol. lxxxviii , 1913 ; Victor G. Plarr , Men and Women of the Time , 15th edn. , 1899 . ] |
| 18 | [ Men and Women of the Time , 14th edn. , 1895 , revised by Victor G. Plarr ; S. M. Ellis ( ed . ) , |
| 19 | For both historians and activists at the time , Labour 's defeat in the 1931 and MacDonald 's " betrayal " are inseparable … |
| 20 | Charged with meting out rights and privileges for all beings and entities at the time of Creation , he carried a small leather pouch on one hip containing the charms for immortality and reincarnation , while a large stone bucket to his other side contained materials for instigating death and decay . |
| 21 | They accompany the eurypterid arthropods ( which may have preyed upon them ) , and we can visualize the rivers and lakes of the time thronging with the first invaders from the sea . |
| 22 | Indeed it is perhaps a pity that he did not take his own advice , after writing in the New Guide ‘ for the author of the present work might with greater ease , and probably with more advantage to himself , have worked up for the amusement of the eye a number of drawings and paintings during the time he has been engaged in this matter of mere utility ’ . |
| 23 | Signals , sitreps and diaries of the time contain no hint that a massacre had taken place , or that Tito 's Yugoslavs at Bleiburg had in any way breached their assurances to Brig Scott , and this may be regarded as significant in assessing the extent to which 5 Corps subsequently continued to accept Yugoslav assurances that prisoners surrendered to them would not be indiscriminately killed . |
| 24 | The exhibition which opens today at the Imperial War Museum features their letters and memories of the time , along with those of their fellow Atlantic evacuees . |
| 25 | It will depend on the characteristic experiences of women and men at the time of its formulation , and on the way they have entered into philosophical discourse . |
| 26 | Can you recall your thoughts and feelings at the time ? |
| 27 | The street was full of goldsmiths and silversmiths and their assistants and apprentices at the time : Messrs. Cook , Ive , Sarl , Hyams and others all appear in the commercial directories for that year , along with the tobacconists , Fribourg and Treyer , whose shop in Haymarket has persisted almost as an anachronism into the 1980s . |