Example sentences of "in the [noun pl] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I read about your father in the newspapers at the time , I began trying to find out things . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The system of accounting which recognizes the transaction in the accounts at the time an order is issued is called ‘ commitment accounting ’ . |
| 4 | Scheiner was still in the wings at the time of the trial . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The importance of living up to what was required by one 's status and what one had been used to came out over and over again in the discussions of the time , and ‘ prudence ’ became a moral imperative in the process of becoming axiomatic in the 1830s and 1840s . |
| 9 | By s. 259 of a private Act of Parliament of 1836 setting up the railway line , it was provided that , if a line should be abandoned , the lands acquired for the track should vest in the owners for the time being of the adjoining lands . |
| 10 | The situation was almost the same at Exeter , but 48 per cent of the subsidy assessments were at £1 , mostly on wages , while in Coventry these were only a handful out of a total of some 700 taxpayers , meaning that almost half the population literally ‘ possessed absolutely nothing but the rags they stood up in , a few sticks and boards for ‘ furniture ’ , and the tools of their trade , if any' , Exeter clearly enjoyed full employment — as full , that is , as was attainable in the conditions of the time — while Coventry languished in the grip of severe unemployment , and indeed in the early 1520s was undergoing a series of acute economic crises . |
| 11 | ‘ Since I can not be a Russian , ’ he says , ‘ I became a Slavophil ’ — an articulator , that is , of romantic church-andstate conservatism in the debates of the time : indeed a walking , talking theory . |
| 12 | The fragmentary archives preserved in the temples at the time of their destruction imply minutely centralized control and a high degree of order . |
| 13 | We were probably all busy out in the fields at the time since it happened at the beginning of September . |
| 14 | She has recently completed the Science Foundation Course of the Open University , but has had to postpone further study in the sciences for the time being because changes in Modern Language teaching at the Sixth Form College where she works have consumed so much of her time and energy . |
| 15 | It is known that he was proficient in the sciences of the time , as well as being a considerable linguist . |
| 16 | There was little hope for political enlightenment in the provinces at a time when the number of literary centres and of those attending them fell to one-tenth of what they had risen to in 1921 . |
| 17 | so I got together with a couple of blokes from school ‘ Hold Your Head Up ’ by Argent was in the charts at the time We 'd play that again and again and again It was the only bass line I could play properly — because it 's so simple , it 's exactly the same all the way through . |
| 18 | Loud French pop music howled out of a cassette recorder and everybody danced with each other to a song which was in the charts at the time , . |
| 19 | When it was heard that he had been shot in the legs at the time of his arrest , the reporters assured their readers that the general view of the British people was , ‘ A pity they did n't aim a bit higher . ’ |