Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [adj] time [pron] be " in BNC.
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1 | " Here are the Maplin Sands , off Foulness Island , where at one time we were going to have a great new airport complex , " he said . |
2 | Markets are not inanimate objects or systems , although at one time it was fashionable to regard them as being so . |
3 | Although at one time it was considered relevant only to study child language when words appeared , we are now able to consider language development as a continuous process from birth . |
4 | Burton started a Welsh male voice choir — ‘ although at one time there were only two Welshmen in the camp ’ — and at one stage , up at Docking in Norfolk , he seems to have done everything but declare the place an independent colony . |
5 | President , congress Neil , page one three four you say in your report and I quote , Sadly , T U P E does not cover pensions , although at this time there is some grey area . |
6 | So we called round but could n't find a record company , although by this time he was with RCA . |
7 | This would hardly have been necessary if at that time they were in a position to dictate the policy and actions of the association . |
8 | Unless — unless at that time he was still living . |
9 | I think one is largely on judging people in the hands of the media , looking at it from an ordinary party member I think it 's the air he gives , whether it 's an air of confidence competence and perhaps and air of confidence , the way he handles himself in the House of Commons , the things that he actually says , because within that time you 're not able , in fact , to have achieved much erm parliamentary wise , one very much has to judge a person by what he has . |
10 | David and I then had to tell him we did n't have any choice because at that time there were no other futuristic stories ready . |
11 | er because at that time there was quite a lot , you would get one mill in probably with somewhere about seventy looms in it and there would only b be less than ten of them working . |
12 | Perhaps because I was involved with other things , perhaps because at that time I was still trying to find my feet as a bisexual and felt isolated by straight sisters and excluded by some Black lesbians . |
13 | I did n't try to make them fall for me , because at that time I was n't in the mood for that sort of thing . ’ |
14 | Well I became aware of the University of Sussex when the Gardener Centre first opened I think , because at that time I was working at the Arts Council of Great Britain and it was erm an innovative scheme which attracted a great deal of national interest , and we were naturally invited down to have a look at it , both the design and the programme that was being planned for the opening season at that time . |
15 | All we had to do was to pay the expense of the helicopter that brought him in because at that time he was appearing at the Prince of Wales and it was a matter of him fitting his time in with his performances , you see ? |
16 | No , I do n't suppose you do now , but , but I have would off worked for local authorities , because at one time they were very poorly paid . |
17 | The journey home seemed to take longer than usual because by that time I was dying to see what presents I 'd receive . |
18 | Because by this time I 'm halfway up Whitehall on my way home . |
19 | So I told him he 'd better go , because by this time I was bubbling a bit and I wanted to kill the man : I was n't really prepared to lose any time over hitting a court welfare officer . |
20 | Recent studies emphasize the different ways homo/sexuality was conceptualized in early modern England — a difference so considerable in fact that ‘ homosexuality ’ becomes anachronistic , since at that time there was neither the concept nor , exactly , the identity it signifies . |
21 | Papal actions , too , appeared to add further proof : after 1337 , except in 1362 and 1375 , popes no longer taxed the clergy for the benefit of the king in England , though at that time they were certainly enriching the French monarch by clerical taxes ; and while successive French kings readily obtained papal dispensations which enabled them to contract politically advantageous matches , Edward on two critical occasions — in the 1340s and 1360s — was denied such benefits . |
22 | As a consequence , this was one of the towns that prospered in the golden age of cross-Pyrenean trade in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , even though at that time there was no road to Luz from the north , only a mule track through the gorge . |
23 | Shortly afterwards Rollasons contacted PAS with a view to purchasing the wings from them , as at that time they were desperate for Tiger Moth wings . |
24 | ‘ It will be no hindrance , either , ’ said Isambard dryly , ‘ that as at this time there is , as I hear , a certain animosity between the King and his brother . |
25 | When it finally stopped I opened my eyes , and though by this time I was prepared for anything I still felt slightly surprised to sec The Butcher threading a needle with a length of suture silk . |