Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether this clamour is loud enough to bring about so fundamental a change in the EEC at the very time when Community institutions wish to move in the opposite direction is a question which needs now to be addressed . |
| 2 | I should be grateful if you would amend the small advertisement for the B.A.E.C. at the next time of insertion so that the last part reads : ‘ For details , write to the Secretary , . |
| 3 | The UGT on May 1 held parades and demonstrations jointly with the CCOO for the first time in many years . |
| 4 | The CNAA at the same time agreed a ‘ reciprocal transfer ’ of credit with the Open University , and related to , and negotiated with , a variety of other bodies in higher education . |
| 5 | In the interests of maintaining " fair competition " between public and private providers and the efficient use of capital , a system of capital charges was introduced into the NHS for the first time , and all hospitals were made responsible for meeting the interest and depreciation costs of their existing assets and new investment . |
| 6 | He had brought with him the completed manuscript of ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ , and read it to the Wordsworths for the first time , so tradition says , in one of the Alfoxden parlours . |
| 7 | In fact the Eliots travelled across the Atlantic for the second time in October ; when he stopped at Chicago to give a reading on his way to St Louis , a reporter noted that he " looked rather tired and smiled in a vague , undirected way " . |
| 8 | Pallister will play against the Boro for the first time , on February 26 , since his headline-hitting move three years ago . |
| 9 | It will be shown in the Midlands at the same time as Question Time on Thursdays . |
| 10 | This courtesy might not be necessary , strictly speaking , but the fact that All the President 's Men were in South Africa as guests of the SARB at the same time was not a help . |
| 11 | Local schools , who have been involved in a railway poster competition to design images reflecting 150 years of local rail travel , will receive their first class family rail travel prizes from InterCity and the WSR at the same time at Taunton . |
| 12 | In these anti-avoidance provisions , the relevant test for a " UK customer " is that he is normally resident in the UK and they can therefore apply even if he is physically outside the UK at the relevant time ( eg at the non-UK office concerned ) . |
| 13 | In the UK at the present time ( 1988 ) the balance of trade deficit has increased from £10.2 billion in 1987 to almost £20 billion in 1988 . |
| 14 | The most economically prosperous parts of the UK at the present time are widely regarded as the towns and cities located on a broad axis extending from Cambridgeshire to Dorset and Avon . |
| 15 | Five new channels offering Digital Stereo Sound and , with the new D-Mac transmission system , improved picture quality will be available in the UK for the first time . |
| 16 | Unikix , the 18-month-old CICS-for-Unix product pioneered by Unicorn Systems Inc and now owned by Groupe Bull SA , is now being launched into the UK for the first time by Brentford , Middlesex-based Bull Information Systems Ltd . |
| 17 | We are immensely proud to be bringing it to the UK for the first time . |
| 18 | Or you could live there , rig up your personal computer and play the Stock Exchange and the Bourse at the same time and then nip over to the West End for a show . ’ |
| 19 | The ‘ Etruscans ’ exhibition , curated by Dr Francesco Buranelli of the Gregorian Etruscan Museum ( see p. 14 ) in the Vatican , brings to the US for the first time around 180 pieces from the Guglielmi Collection , including votive busts , cinerary urns , domestic items , gold jewellery , and bronzes such as the ‘ Putto Graziani ’ . |
| 20 | Commander David Carlson of the US frigate John H. Sides , which was in the Gulf at the same time as the Vincennes , wrote in the September issue of the US Naval Institute journal Proceedings that the airbus was shot down " for no good reason " and referred to " pathetic post-incident attempts to place the blame [ for the incident ] on the victims " . |
| 21 | The tradition comes from the end of the 19th century when a succession of designers and craftsmen discoverd the Cotswolds for the first time . |
| 22 | Last weekend they won the HDM tournament in The Hague for the first time while Karen Brown , Mary Nevill , Sandy Lister and Tracy Fry were engaged on outdoor commitments . |
| 23 | On Oct. 17 , 1989 , the PAN voted with the PRI for the first time to pass an electoral reform bill . |
| 24 | In June 1990 Antall told Austrian Chancellor Franz Vranitsky that Hungary wanted to join the EC at the same time as Austria . |
| 25 | On trying the TL for the first time , more than one recently deafened person has said with astonishment , ‘ The world has come alive again . ’ |
| 26 | Under the leadership of the acting chair Kyi Maung , the NLD contacted the SLORC for the first time on June 21 , requesting national reconciliation talks . |