Example sentences of "in the [noun] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many influential Englishmen had seen the magnificent accommodation that Napoleon III was providing for his bureaucracy in the New Louvre and the new architecture that was arising in the Paris of the time . |
| 2 | Official statements said that no art restoration work was being carried out in the Chapel at the time of the fire . |
| 3 | They were told to wait in the hall for the time being , until it was decided what should be done with them . |
| 4 | ‘ L'Etat c'est moi ’ was a shrewd remark , but can hardly have been intended as a definition even in the France of the time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There were flickering lights in the quarry by the time they got back . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When I read about your father in the newspapers at the time , I began trying to find out things . |
| 9 | if it shall appear by the record of the books , rolls and memoranda of his court , or by ancient perambulations , or by any other sufficient evidence , that any royal demesnes , or lands or woods which were in the forests before the time of Henry II , had been excluded by the late perambulations , then they shall be re-afforested . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The system of accounting which recognizes the transaction in the accounts at the time an order is issued is called ‘ commitment accounting ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Thurlow concentrates on vividly detailed description of his races , mostly in the style of the time . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ You were in the bathroom at the time . ’ |
| 21 | Scheiner was still in the wings at the time of the trial . |
| 22 | A further 11 are listed as serving soldiers or seamen ( some of the other bridegrooms were in the services at the time of marriage , but since their civilian occupations were also recorded they have been classified differently ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | You were lucky to be in the kitchen at the time . ’ |
| 25 | She does not define ‘ &c. ’ , or mention crowding , though this , in the reports of the time , was the main objection to such courts ; her emphasis falls instead on neighbourliness , cleanliness , and laundry . |
| 26 | The conviction could be even more serious for Dr Bromley , 48 , who was not even in the surgery at the time . |
| 27 | Unless the buyer can show that there was a latent defect present in the goods at the time of delivery which later became manifest ( and hence that the goods could not have been of merchantable quality at the time of delivery ) he may be left with no remedy . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | There was no-one else in the building at the time . |
| 30 | 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 . |