Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various other objections to the Nestlé takeover of Rowntree were raised at the time . |
| 2 | The NHS was created at a time of post-war reconstruction , when large sections of British industry were being nationalised by the Labour government . |
| 3 | During the 1890s , Millbottom was run for a time in conjunction with Days Mill . |
| 4 | So I drove up to Illinois , where Ray was living at the time , and got him to build me one . |
| 5 | The decision to abolish the GLC and MCCs was taken at a time of major political disagreements between the GLC , in particular , and the national government ( Livingstone 1988 ) . |
| 6 | I think if you saw what David did afterwards , he was obviously attracted to the one-man show that Tony Newley was doing at the time like , ‘ Stop The World ’ and things like that , and the lyrics appealed to him . |
| 7 | Luke is wrong , therefore , in saying that the census carried out at the birth of Jesus was taken in the time of Quirinius . |
| 8 | The sort of modest suburban house which Mrs Moore was renting at the time could be purchased in those days for £850 or £1,000 . |
| 9 | Of these the most important was Theodore Robinson , who did become a close friend of the painter , and who produced some paintings of the haystacks on which Monet was working at the time , which are almost indistinguishable from those of the master . |
| 10 | SGI was criticised at the time for the price it was willing to pay , a price it later trimmed . |
| 11 | Dr West was supported at the time by Professor Keith Mant , who is now retired . |
| 12 | When Tommy was interviewed at the time , he made it clear that he was a man with his sights firmly set on the future , and so it is no surprise that in 1991 , Tommy Rodgers is again setting new standards . |
| 13 | But in both cases the pre-raid recces were not much help on the night , for Milner-Gibson 's compass failed and the German dispositions on Guernsey were changed by the time of the raid . |
| 14 | If I am not mistaken , Davis was fielding at the time of his injury , and while one must concede that the wearing of helmets by batsmen , though hideous , is permissible , their use in the field is surely unacceptable and should be banned . |
| 15 | As Mario was to say at the time , though the 78 was obviously a ‘ fantastic ’ car in concept , it was going to take a while to work all the bugs out of it : the braking system was twitchy , the steering too flexible and it was , due to its side-pods , slow on the straights . |
| 16 | Two weeks before the transfer deadline , and in a desperate bid to clinch Manchester United 's first Championship in 25 years , Ferguson made a call to David Pleat at Luton , where Chelsea striker Harford was playing at the time . |
| 17 | In brief , both Lanfranc and Anselm were living in a time when the ancient consensus of local testimony , which had sufficed in the past for most matters of faith and practice , was being subordinated to more formal legal and rational procedures . |
| 18 | SYMAP was developed at a time when interactive computing was still at an experimental stage . |
| 19 | Reincarnation and re-creation would be crucial to The Waste Land where Buddhist ideas would have an important place and where various voices of the dead , from that of Dante to that of Mayne Reid , would play their part in a sort of literary metempsychosis , not entirely unlike that used by Joyce in Ulysses , which Eliot was reading at the time . |
| 20 | The first UN organization to have its headquarters in a developing country ( Nairobi , Kenya ) , UNEP was established at a time when the need to safeguard the environment from the impact of economic and population growth was not generally recognized . |