Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | His would not have been the only provincial accent to assail the ears of Londoners at the time , but at least it would have lent his speech a touch of bucolic appeal , with its rolling Somerset post-vocalic ‘ r ’ sounds and a liberal sprinkling of ‘ v 's for ‘ f's and ‘ z's for ‘ S'S . |
| 2 | On the one hand , the memorandum of association must qualify the company 's ability to provide surveying services , to the effect that such business must be carried on at all times in accordance with the Rules of Conduct for the time being of the RICS . |
| 3 | When Powell and the five survivors eventually reached safety , ragged , half-starved and exhausted , their expedition was hailed as one of the most courageous feats of exploration of the time . |
| 4 | Because lords owned large tracts of land at a time when the opportunities for its exploitation were particularly favourable , and could add to this profit from tolls and customs on increasing trade , they could hardly avoid a substantial increase in their resources in the course of the eleventh century . |
| 5 | RJB is run by Richard Budge and its main asset is not coal but its Big Cats huge Caterpillar machines with shovels that can pick up tonnes of coal at a time . |
| 6 | Thus Goldthorpe and Lockwood ( 1969 ) carried out their research among the manual workers of Luton at a time when academic opinion was saying that such people were beginning to take on middle-class characteristics . |
| 7 | Many Labour councils held these kinds of sentiments at the time . |
| 8 | As regards the numbering of their years , the Jews used the same era as the Seleucids of Syria from the time they came under their rule , in the second century BC , until the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in 70 AD . |
| 9 | DESPITE his criticisms , among those who predicted the outcome of the election with astonishing accuracy ( and subject to hoots of disbelief at the time ) was Sir Tim . |
| 10 | With COSMOS all children 2 to 15 years of age at the time of return travel qualify for the specially reduced child prices advertised in the holiday pages as long as they share a room with 2 adults . |
| 11 | Children under 2 years of age at the time of return travel go free , but must travel on an adult 's lap unless there is a free seat available . |
| 12 | LOW CHILD PRICES apply to children 2 to 15 years of age at the time of return travel , when sharing a room with 2 adults ( See page 5 ) . |
| 13 | No deposit is payable for infants under 2 years of age at the time of return travel . |
| 14 | Although the seriousness of the crime meant that the youths had been tried as adults , the fact that all were under 16 years of age at the time of the attack ( April 1989 ) meant that they had to be sentenced as juveniles . |
| 15 | Only in exceptional circumstances will the faculty offer places to applicants who will be less than seventeen and a half years of age at the time of commencing their studies . |
| 16 | It is worthwhile looking at the advantages and disadvantages of copyright at a time when it has achieved worldwide acceptability . |
| 17 | ‘ If the money is provided it surely indicates the priorities of Government at a time of supposed financial restraint , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ If the money is provided it surely indicates the priorities of Government at a time of supposed financial restraint , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Nor do I think that either the father or the court were exercising any rights of custody at the time of the removal . |
| 20 | The veteran astrophysicist Sir Fred Hoyle , with his colleague Chandra Wickramasinghe , believes that these molecules were probably brought to the surface of the Earth via the tiny dust grains on meteorites and comets , or on interstellar winds , and succeeded in germinating life in the fertile conditions of Earth at the time . |
| 21 | From the Cape comes wool , skins , fruit etc. etc. , while from France we often get 3,000 sacks of chestnuts at a time . |
| 22 | Members can avail of the competitive terms of Autocover from the time they become qualified to drive . |
| 23 | Each produces only a few drops of nectar at a time . |
| 24 | A large number of studies have been conducted with particular reference to eyewitness testimony in an attempt to decide what the effects of high levels of arousal at the time of a crime are likely to be on the testimony of a victim or witness . |
| 25 | This , in fact , was a view shared by many teachers of English at the time . |
| 26 | The MCC employed eleven members of staff at the time of investigation and ran a development corporation which was involved in renovating and constructing housing as well as providing local jobs . |
| 27 | It was also established that the Jews had been friends of the inhabitants of Pergamum in the time of Abraham ( Ant . |
| 28 | When he and others advocated extra divisions in the Edwardian period they could not have foreseen that the formation of a Third Division in 1920 would create an extra demand for players of talent at a time when a large part of the male population had been wiped out in a world war . |
| 29 | Pour about two inches of this mixture into a shallow tray and submerge 50 or so lengths of reed at a time . |
| 30 | None of the children who did not recover were receiving medical care for symptoms of constipation at the time of follow up . |