Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] the time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The area suffered badly during the time of the plague which gave rise to the legend of the Butterstone . |
| 2 | But I am not so sure that I should have recognised what I recognised unconsciously at the time of writing : that I was in a state of helplessness , the helplessness of being a non-person . |
| 3 | According to Health Ministry figures , four people had been killed and 93 injured up to the time of the miners ' arrival on the scene . |
| 4 | ( b ) If the producer can prove that the defect came about after the time of supply by him , this will provide a defence ( s. 4(1) ( d ) ) . |
| 5 | And er Oh and if he If the time of the the er tinkers that they came round , if they came round about the time of the the pig killing they would look for the piece of bacon . |
| 6 | The system was not obnoxious to the perpetuity rule , because each settlement and resettlement was designed to comply with the rule , and the perpetuity period began afresh from the time of each resettlement . |
| 7 | it 's amazing , that there was nine people who worked there at the time of the war . |
| 8 | Women 's occupational ‘ choices ’ were limited and these five occupations predominated up to the time of World War II and well beyond it . |
| 9 | Held , allowing the appeal , that on its true construction section 9(4) of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 was a paramount provision which limited all other provisions of that Act and related back to the time of the events in respect of which evidence was sought rather than forward to the time when such evidence would be given ; that since all the evidence sought from the retired Crown servant related to matters which had come to his notice in his capacity as an officer or servant of the Crown , section 9(4) applied and the court had no jurisdiction to make the order for his examination ( post , p. 197F–G , H ) . |
| 10 | The idea of the Temple went back to the time of Moses when God commanded a tabernacle ( i.e. a tent ) to be built in which to keep the Ark of the Covenant . |
| 11 | Down the garden , sloping to the river , the aged and useless apple trees are the successors of those that grew here in the time of Charles I , when the glebe terrier of 1634 speaks of ‘ one orchard , one backside , and two little gardens ’ . |
| 12 | It was a landscape which Coleridge probably knew well by the time of his autumn visit , and to whose spectacular beauty he was to introduce the Wordsworths before the year ended . |
| 13 | He spoke enthusiastically at the time of co-opting the help of government , community groups and business — a troika that would transform downtrodden parts of the city into gleaming new shopping malls and day-care centres and rebuilt factories and office space . |
| 14 | Judge Alfredo Gustilo said in Manila Burton 's claim that he did not know the contraband was among his belongings was ‘ absurd ’ because customs police found four blocks of hashish hidden in the pair of shoes he had on at the time of his arrest . |
| 15 | Nine of these students had not at the time of writing completed their course of study . |
| 16 | It would be a long time before all of this changed very much — and certainly it had not by the time of the Crowther Report in 1959 ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 17 | He said once at the time of Suez with a charge of bitterness , " Those Egyptians are rats . " |
| 18 | Greek became the lingua franca of this region and remained so during the time of the Roman empire . |
| 19 | The ESPLANADE , on which witches were once burned at the stake , is the scene of the famous Military Tattoo held annually at the time of the International Festival . |
| 20 | As environmentalists pointed out at the time of the Shetlands disaster , there is a degree of hypocrisy in expressing outrage at the spillage when such accidents are the price we seem prepared to pay for access to oil . |