Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Official statements said that no art restoration work was being carried out in the Chapel at the time of the fire . |
| 2 | They were told to wait in the hall for the time being , until it was decided what should be done with them . |
| 3 | This is a startling remark , but it is delivered as a matter of course , and Ross ( 1777–1856 ) , a naval officer and eventually an admiral himself , is unlikely to have been mistaken about something generally known in the service at the time . |
| 4 | There were flickering lights in the quarry by the time they got back . |
| 5 | On IPE and Fox , in the case of futures trades , the rules are more relaxed and allow the whole order to be filled off the floor provided it is within the minimum fluctuation in the pit at the time . |
| 6 | My cousin er what 's name now Kenneth was the Lieutenant Colonel , and was the youngest commanding officer in the army at the time of Alamein . |
| 7 | I decided to take a lot of the fruit , and to put it to dry in the sun for a time . |
| 8 | IBM Corp traditionally sends departing executives off with glowing resumees of their illustrious careers , so it was striking that the announcement late Friday that former chairman and chief executive officer John Akers had just retired from the company after 33 years was accompanied by the briefest and curtest summaries of his career — after all , the man had significant achievements behind him when he acceded to the top job , and it is arguable that many of the problems that plagued the company during Akers ' tenure were the fault of his predecessors , although it must be said that he was also in the loop at the time . |
| 9 | Chapman insisted , too , that his players should have decent club conditions , and the Highbury dressing-rooms were rated the best in the country at a time when most clubs were content to provide only the most spartan of facilities for changing and cleaning . |
| 10 | And Rome insisted that the ritual occur in a consecrated church — which , given the relatively few churches in the country at the time and their tendency to be congregated in certain areas , was not always possible in Ireland . |
| 11 | The establishment of the welfare state and a large nationalized sector ( at the end of the 1930s/1940s period of change ) was due to the political balance in the country at the time and the need of UK industry for a rational provision of education , health and economic infrastructure at the core of the economy . |
| 12 | I I often , well , usually , if I 'm in the country at the time I bet on the National just for a , for a to sort of waste some money . |
| 13 | A majority of those elected in 1968 were later active in the civil rights movement and a number were involved in the DHAC at the time of their election . |
| 14 | The village reached its peak in the middle of the 19th century-when the population reached 846 and the occupations listed in the census of the time show it to have been totally self-sufficient . |
| 15 | Thurlow concentrates on vividly detailed description of his races , mostly in the style of the time . |
| 16 | These five columnar figures , facing us , standing still , might each be an independent statue in the style of the time , like the Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo or the Hestia ( figs. 76–7 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ You were in the bathroom at the time . ’ |
| 18 | Authorised is important because there was a famous case of an insurance company turning down a claim for a fitted kitchen damaged by fire when they discovered that a motorbike was in the kitchen at the time . |
| 19 | You were lucky to be in the kitchen at the time . ’ |
| 20 | The conviction could be even more serious for Dr Bromley , 48 , who was not even in the surgery at the time . |
| 21 | Information published in Le Figaro in September 1991 following Swiss investigations appeared to confirm that , as speculated in the press at the time , Roger-Patrice Pelat , a friend of Mitterrand who died in March 1989 [ see p. 36706 ] , had bought a large number of Triangle shares via a Swiss company , Experta Treuhand , only days before the Pechiney-ANC deal . |
| 22 | There was no-one else in the building at the time . |
| 23 | The staff present in the building at the time of the murder were then questioned individually under the assumption that the plants would register the high level of emotion in any guilty party when he or she was questioned . |
| 24 | Croatian President Franjo Tudjman , the current ( Croatian ) President of the Collective State Presidency Stjepan Mesic and federal Prime Minister Markovic , who were all in the building at the time , were unhurt . |
| 25 | Makarenko 's colony near Poltava was a drop in the ocean at a time when 200 children a day were abandoned in Samara . |
| 26 | ‘ No need to freak out , ’ said Tina in the parlance of the time . |
| 27 | There were between 10 and 20 aircraft in the circuit at the time and G-AYIH was seen by witnesses and on radar to join the circuit at the beginning of the downwind leg about one mile south of runway 26 . |
| 28 | Around two-thirds of its eigh-teenth-century membership were " manufacturers " in the sense of the time , that is working craftsmen like weavers and tailors . |
| 29 | It is a blessing that no one was in the church at the time . ’ |
| 30 | Alternatively one could simply say the seats were actually all taken , and that all three occupants happened to be in the toilet at the time . |