Example sentences of "[prep] [det] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The T'ang period was the main flowering of culture in China , and more poetry was written during that time than any other . |
| 2 | Ah but so did I and I did nothing but write during that time but I 've never known and everything I 've said about that is true , has turned out to be true . |
| 3 | Speculation during that time that Arafat had been killed focused attention on the lack of an obvious replacement for Arafat as PLO chair and Palestinian leader . |
| 4 | I did my best , but I suppose it was during that time that I began to drink too much and that finished off my promotion chances . |
| 5 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
| 6 | There were very few major countries I did n't visit during that time and travel was nothing like as easy as it is now . |
| 7 | Discipline was very very strict in those days but of course with the war coming on and lots of those men going to the forces , things changed drastically during that time and discipline was somewhat more lax after the war . |
| 8 | Every society requires its witnesses : those who are not afraid to render and preserve in words the range and scope of human experience for that time and that place . |
| 9 | Having decided how long the intervention is to last , ask the parents to run it for that time and then immediately return to the baseline condition . |
| 10 | His father was forty-nine , his mother forty-two and he weighed twelve pounds — remarkable for that time and place . |
| 11 | Between that time and the proposal in February 1981 , she had to fend for herself , undergoing an exhausting trial by endurance , hounded day and night by the press , who virtually besieged her flat . |
| 12 | After all , they removed it from the custody of its owner and , prima facie , they should bear the responsibility for any damage which occurs between that time and the owner getting it back . |
| 13 | There were too many shadows between that time and this , but as she listened it was n't her past that came back to her , it was his . |
| 14 | It was about this time that Vivienne began to get really evangelistic about it all . |
| 15 | It was about this time that their grandmother died of a sudden heart attack . |
| 16 | It became apparent about this time that the economy was also slowing down . ’ |
| 17 | It was about this time that the power struggle between King Charles I and parliament began to escalate . |
| 18 | There are some indications that it was about this time that she began to fall in love with Richard Baxter . |
| 19 | It was at about this time that the Duke of Devonshire created the splendid avenue of lime trees which started beside some large houses — Afton House ; Bolton House and Linden House — on the south side of Chiswick High Road , and extending down to the northern boundary of Chiswick House grounds , sweeping on through the magnificent wrought-iron gates , at the end of Hogarth Lane , and continuing through the gardens to the house . |
| 20 | It was about this time that Endill began hearing footsteps echoing around the corridors of Nightside . |
| 21 | It was about this time that the meal ended . |
| 22 | It was also at about this time that a friend of Charlotte ( whom I met at a party ) commented on how much better Charlotte was looking — considering the circumstances . |
| 23 | It was about this time that I received a letter from Dr Liu Shih-Shun , Chinese Ambassador in Ottawa , who informed me that , with the imminent cessation of hostilities in Asia , the Chinese government would move back from the wartime capital of Chungking to the south central city of Nanking . |
| 24 | It was about this time that Scott found out that Charles Barry junior had distributed a paper to MPs pressing his own claim to the Foreign Office . |
| 25 | It was about this time that Elizabeth 's growing reputation began to attract the envy and malice of reviewers . |
| 26 | Whiteley , C.O. of 69 Squadron , recalled : ‘ It was about this time that we were stood by to intercept transport aircraft proceeding from Italy to North Africa . |
| 27 | It was about this time that Wordsworth met Coleridge ( 1772–1834 ) , whom we are considering in this chapter as an important English philosopher rather than as a poet . |
| 28 | It was about this time that he started telling Lewis Wyvis Hall would be his one day . |
| 29 | He had outlined to him a ‘ Project for a Scientific Psychology ’ in 1895 , and it was at about this time that Freud began to become dissatisfied with Breuer 's approach . |
| 30 | It was at about this time that the epergne , a standing centre-piece with branched supports for the dessert was coming into fashion . |