Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [art] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the facade of high fashion was highly developed by the time of his death ; there were over three miles of carriage road along the cliff top and a promenade at the foot for the elegant and aspiring to see and be seen during the height of Brighton 's mild winter and spring seasons . |
| 2 | All the nineteenth-century conventions of comedy pointed to the need for universality and in any case Chaplin 's own personal inclinations must have pulled him back from being sectionally committed at a time of class warfare . |
| 3 | Are you so trapped in a time of royalty and titles that you ca n't envisage a world in which a woman has obligations ? ’ |
| 4 | In order to give effect to the original intention of the Directive , the House of Lords held that the Regulations should be construed purposively and read as if after the words " immediately before the transfer " the following words were added " or would have been so employed at the time of the transfer if he had not been unfairly dismissed in the circumstances described in reg 8(1) " , ( ie for a reason in connection with the transfer ) . |
| 5 | Whereas Aristotle did not enquire into the mental process by which we perceive time , because he believed that our minds must necessarily conform to the time of the physical universe , St Augustine took the mind 's activity as the basis of temporal measurement . |
| 6 | It was not until the pontificate of Pope John XIII , elected in 965 , that the Papacy began dating by the year of the Incarnation , but the practice was not uniformly adopted until the time of Pope Leo IX , elected in 1048 . |
| 7 | These courses could not be done in a shorter time so they were normally arranged for a time of year when there was less pressure of work on those participating . |
| 8 | The advent of commercial and domestic freezing equipment means that what we eat is no longer limited by the time of year — although whether you consider the flavour of food which has been deep frozen for any length of time to be as good is another matter . |
| 9 | The time allotted in different local education authorities for solving the kinds of issue described above ranged from no time at all , through one day every term , two hours once a month , to one afternoon , and in one case a whole day each week . |
| 10 | Whilst it could only be considered such with the wisdom of hindsight , it was nevertheless seen at the time as a geographically limited episode of a much wider-ranging struggle . |
| 11 | The origins of this transformation may be traced back into the late 19th century but the upheaval finally came at the time of Vietnam , flower-power and the campus revolutions . |
| 12 | Special consideration of alternative strategies , such as nutritional or surgical intervention , is warranted for children who are already stunted at the time of diagnosis and therefore need extra catch up growth . |
| 13 | Parenthood is generally recognised as a time of crisis and adjustment . |
| 14 | The descriptions are a mixture of quotations from texts which were already known at the time of writing , when Rahewin completed the work of Otto von Freising . |
| 15 | The Whigs , as a political force , had been largely destroyed by the time of James 's accession , and were in no position to mount an effective challenge to his rule . |
| 16 | The subjects of Nietzsche 's two public lectures were already chosen by the time of his letter to Ritschl , as we can see from a letter to a friend in late September . |
| 17 | If , moreover , at this early date , sizeable Nazarean enclaves existed as far distant as Syria , one can not ignore the possibility that they had come into being prior to Jesus 's death and were already established at the time of the Crucifixion . |
| 18 | One of the regions adjacent to Surrey which is referred to in Frithuwald 's charter is Sonning , the province of the Suningas in east Berkshire , and it is possible that one of the three sub-kings who witnessed with Frithuwald ruled here , in which case Wulfhere 's presence in Berkshire was already established at the time of Frithuwald 's grant . |
| 19 | The results were widely interpreted at the time as a personal vindication for the General . |
| 20 | Her father was under clad for the time of year but was sweating heavily . |
| 21 | The American Adventure opens at 10.00am and closes between 5.00pm and 7.00pm depending on the time of year . |
| 22 | The bones are still exposed at the time of writing this ( November , 1988 ) and they should provide additional data as time progresses . |
| 23 | The choice of reference , whether it is to be to expert or arbitrator , is in any event usually made at the time of the original contract which precedes the time when the parties know whether they have an " issue to settle " or a " formulated dispute " , and they will be obliged to use whatever procedure was stipulated , unless they make some fresh agreement . |
| 24 | The dome of Santiaguito in Guatemala has been growing ever since 1922 , and was still growing at the time of writing . |
| 25 | ‘ If you did that , then it is just about the greatest miracle a person has ever performed since the time of Jesus . ’ |
| 26 | It would seem obvious that at least some of those practitioners had not in fact vanished at all , but still existed at the time of the Crusades . |
| 27 | Provided that the sound travel time h/c ( c is the sound speed in the object ) is short compared with the time for the impactor to fall through a scale height , stresses parallel to the axis should roughly be in hydrostatic equilibrium , with the axial stress at any point within the object being that required to decelerate the trailing mass . |
| 28 | Self-provisioning is also more appreciated at a time of economic recession like the present . |
| 29 | His final decision was possibly taken at the time of the war with Alaric , when he may have thought that there was propaganda value to be gained by standing as the defender of the catholic Church ; he was subsequently baptised , probably in 508 . |
| 30 | This is the very last thing that should ever suffer in a time of recession or emergency when people 's belts have to tighten . |