Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [art] time [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although for a time they were merely raiders , these Celtic cousins had ambitions to acquire land and permanent residence , and were as ready to fight the Picts as to co-operate with them . |
| 2 | Although at the time they were made up of an apparently infinite chain of familiar days , I can think of them now only as a whole . |
| 3 | Although at the time he was ‘ not a great fan of industrial specialism' , his views have changed . |
| 4 | " Able-Oboe-Charlie " was the aircrew phonetics used by the early Pathfinders to identify their Commandant , although at the time he was officially a Commander of the Pathfinder Force , with the acting rank of group captain under the control of No 3 Group for day-to-day administration . |
| 5 | Although at the time it was seen as no more than the correction of an anomaly , only at the Labour Party 's annual conference in 1979 was the formal position of the Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party brought into line with the de facto position by his being accorded the title of ‘ Leader of the Labour Party ’ . |
| 6 | One aspect of the case which is not explored in the judgment is the fact that the appellant was on parole when the offence was committed , although by the time he was sentenced it seems that his licence would either have been close to expiry or have expired already . |
| 7 | Not so much because I do n't understand the subject ( that is no real obstacle to a lecturer ) , but more because of the time we are likely to consume , even if we keep a respectable distance from quantum mechanics and concentrate solely on phenomenological theories . |
| 8 | But they were n't checked because at the time he was renting a suite at the Crillon . ’ |
| 9 | In our squadron was a man I call an elderly because at the time he was about forty to forty five years old and we were all a bunch of kids . |
| 10 | Sometimes rap was difficult to defend because at the time it was all dicks and gold . |
| 11 | Roddick did not offer any resistance , because at the time she was a frustrated actress and she felt teaching English and history to a class of forty kids at a local secondary school was the next best thing to acting . |
| 12 | The FTC is also regarded as being reluctant to pursue high-tech companies because by the time it is brought and the issues resolved , the market has moved on . |
| 13 | They did n't want his help , each one told him straight , because by the time he was briefed into what they were working on , then he would be away and they 'd have wasted the classroom time . |
| 14 | Whereas at the time it was a thin old wicket — you know , ‘ Madness are a bit thick and they do come out with some bollocks sometimes , so I do n't know if I can throw my weight behind them ’ . ’ |
| 15 | Certainly , employers were not propelled into joining associations since by the time they were required by legislation to bargain with unions US manufacturing was itself organised into sufficiently large company units for employers to be self-sufficient and not to require association bargaining ( Thomson , 1981 ) . |
| 16 | Anyway the argument is academic , since by the time I 'm 55 the Skye Ridge will be a London-owned Sport And Leisure ‘ Centre ’ , with most of Glen Brittle bulldozed to provide the car park . |
| 17 | It may be relevant for the Industrial Tribunal to investigate whether at the time he was dismissed and if not then when thereafter , he knew that he had the right to complain that he had been unfairly dismissed ; in some cases the Tribunal may have to consider whether there has been any misrepresentation about any relevant matter by the employer to the employee . |
| 18 | I had read it hungrily in Lima when for a time it was the most substantial piece of luggage I possessed . |
| 19 | tenant of area of sea has right to sue for nuisance where pollution killed larvae even though at the time they were killed , tenant had not acquired a proprietary right of action . |
| 20 | ‘ The memory will always be with me of those lads ' faces , even though at the time I was only twenty years old myself , to see them sat on the floor of the aircraft , and some of the trying to negotiate the main spar , and the cheers and tears when we came over the white cliffs of England . |
| 21 | Thus if the goods are damaged or stolen because of his negligence he will have to bear the loss even though at the time he was not the owner . |
| 22 | Within another two minutes Simmons was two-thirds towards completing his hat trick after he outpaced all six defenders and side-footed the ball past goalkeeper Slack , who had been caught unawares as at the time he was trying to impress a group of young girls in the crowd by swinging on the crossbar . |
| 23 | We were unable to meet with the Chairwoman of the Iraqi Women 's Federation , Manal Younis , as at the time she was on a ship bound for Iraq with a cargo of medicines and milk . |
| 24 | She was near the east bank of the River , five hundred paces south of the town , lying on a flat white rock where the crocodiles could not get her , though by the time she was discovered by a Medjay patrol at the sixth hour of day when the sun was at its highest , the vultures had eaten her eyes and part of her face , and the flies were so glutted that they could not leave the feast unless they were picked off . |