Example sentences of "in the [noun] [prep] [art] 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 On the very day that the Garotter 's Act became law , the essential distinction between right and wrong faltered appreciably in the pages of The Times where a disturbance was noted at Cremorne Gardens which had resulted in some upper-class rowdies being heavily fined .
3 Some of all this specific debate surfaces in the pages of the Times Higher Education Supplement , and even on occasion in the general ‘ quality ’ press .
4 In the case of The Times , there is a decrease in total space devoted to public affairs news and features — 1184 sq .
5 Official statements said that no art restoration work was being carried out in the Chapel at the time of the fire .
6 They were told to wait in the hall for the time being , until it was decided what should be done with them .
7 ‘ 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 .
8 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 .
9 There were flickering lights in the quarry by the time they got back .
10 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 .
11 When I read about your father in the newspapers at the time , I began trying to find out things .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 I decided to take a lot of the fruit , and to put it to dry in the sun for a time .
15 Sophisticates might see it differently : thus J. H. Newman , writing in the Tracts for the Times ( no. 85 , 1840 ) when still a member of the Church of England , drew attention to discrepancies and differences of emphasis between various books of the Bible .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 The system of accounting which recognizes the transaction in the accounts at the time an order is issued is called ‘ commitment accounting ’ .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Initially , of course , those who drove her out had to justify their actions to Elizabeth and prevent the English queen making any serious attempt to restore her sister of Scotland ; and they used that scholar of European distinction , George Buchanan , as their apologist , thus enabling the grave and learned humanist to display a remarkable talent for writing , as it were , copy for the Sun in the style of The Times , in his sensational Ane detectioun of the doinges of Marie quene of Scottes .
25 Thurlow concentrates on vividly detailed description of his races , mostly in the style of the time .
26 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 ) .
27 ‘ You were in the bathroom at the time . ’
28 Scheiner was still in the wings at the time of the trial .
29 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 ) .
30 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 .
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