Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm on the basis that er we were , when we were setting the , the targets , the time was set by the work study personnel erm and then the operator was able to obtain a trial run on the time given er and if at the end of the work , he was satisfied that he had made the target bonus , or near enough , or if he was satisfied that , given a little extra opportunity to go back onto that job should it come back again in the near future , then he would , he would see clearly that he could make at least fifty percent er which was the target bonus , and probably more . |
| 2 | But anyway , the railways there was a spurt on between in the late sixties on the railway and that 's when I think I was sure , not only because I was a branch secretary at the time but I 'm sure that all the British Railways there was a greater awareness of the fact that we had been deceived by the word nationalization . |
| 3 | You mentioned Christopher , what er the last time it 's , I 'm going back a little while , the last time I was talking with Janet he , she was a bit unhappy , I think he was in er a teaching practice at the time and she was wondering how he was going to go on . |
| 4 | A post mortem examination revealed she had suffered a heart attack at the time of the accident . |
| 5 | Few things are as instantly heart-stopping to a computer user as the time when his machine starts to behave erratically . |
| 6 | Walker was a Slade student in the time of Brown and Tonks , and she also took Sickert 's evening classes at Westminster . |
| 7 | In spite of legislation which makes seat belt wearing compulsory , it is a matter of concern that 45% of the car passenger casualties in this age group were not wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident . |
| 8 | A spring frost at the time of flowering can cause imperfect fertilisation resulting in millerandage , the formation of tiny hard berries which will not swell or ripen . |
| 9 | The ‘ rather dirty ’ old paintings had been a wedding present at the time of Mrs Luxmoore-May 's first marriage in 1948 . |
| 10 | Bob went on from there , season in , season out , to the end of 1931–32 , by which time he had made 293 League appearances for Crystal Palace ( a club record at the time , but of course they did not make much of such things in those days ) and even today , almost 60 years later , there are fewer than only half a dozen Palace men who have played more times for us than that . |
| 11 | Terry was , originally at least , a wing-half who had captured the eye of manager Cyril Spiers , and , after a season ( 1955–56 ) of coming to maturity and settling down to the demands of League football , he put together a run of 214 consecutive League appearances ( 234 with major Cup competitions ) which was a club record at the time and has only once been exceeded by the great John Jackson . |
| 12 | I was working in a car factory at the time . |
| 13 | She had booked herself a bed at a YWCA hostel for the time being . |
| 14 | Samuel Bamford 's father was a muslin weaver at the time . |
| 15 | Jacqueline 's weight dropped from 10 stone to just over 4 and a half stone by the time of her death on December 23rd last year . |
| 16 | Yet the need to harness the ability of the computer to monitor a dynamic situation far faster than is possible with manual methods was as pressing for SGB , with a Group payroll at the time approaching £13 million , as for the very large organisation able to make substantial investment in computerised personnel records . |
| 17 | The Department of Transport does , however , put a cash value on the time saved by road users by the building of new roads . |
| 18 | Well I was a drama student at the time and I suppose erm |
| 19 | ‘ She was a member of your Justice Police and involved in a security operation at the time of her death . |
| 20 | She kept a Tiger Moth at the time , housed in an old barn , using the South Meadow as an airstrip . |
| 21 | A bridge had been carried away in Castle Street , so likely there had been a flood tide at the time . |
| 22 | Ward was a Guinness director at the time . |
| 23 | A post-mortem examination at the time showed she 'd been hit on the head with a blunt instrument . |
| 24 | Mrs Whitehouse , for example , says she received a phone call at the time of the case from an evangelist who was travelling in Denmark . |
| 25 | Seaford was virtually dead as a trading centre by the time Henry VIII granted it a charter in 1544 . |
| 26 | It should be noted that a similar order of precedence exists in Ashton 's Scènes de Ballet as in Petipa 's The Sleeping Beauty which was supposed to be an evocation of a court ballet at the time of Louis XIV . |
| 27 | Hagans was staying at a bail hostel at the time where the only restriction was that he had to be in beween 11 a.m. in the evening and 7 a.m. in the morning . |
| 28 | The 12th NST round opened on Sept. 28 , 1989 , and ended on Dec. 8 , when Burt and Yuri Nazarkin ( who replaced Alexei Obukhov as the Soviet delegation leader in November 1988 ) held an unprecedented joint press conference at which they reaffirmed the undertaking given at the Malta summit meeting on Dec. 2-3 between President Bush of the USA and President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union ( see p. 37111 ) that they would aim to conclude a START treaty by the time of the scheduled Washington summit of June 1990 . |
| 29 | There were U A B , Unemployment Assistant Board and there was a means test at the time as well . |
| 30 | Lloyds gives a guide price at the time of dealing . |