Example sentences of "[prep] the time as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other game was far more interesting with Speelman looking for much of the time as though he was spending a very unhappy 33rd birthday . |
| 2 | I think that was a reflection of the time as well . |
| 3 | So should we be surprised that the architect has to content himself with high fees most of the time as his reward when an ungrateful society refuses to thank him ? |
| 4 | Of course , in reality there is no united lesbian and gay community with a common set of needs and yet Switchboard attempts a near-unique balancing act of serving some of the needs of all of the people as much of the time as possible . |
| 5 | Rather it should be : ‘ How can I help myself to be as little ‘ like that ’ ’ as much of the time as possible ? ’ |
| 6 | It was against this background of ‘ stagflation ’ that monetarism increasingly became more influential , providing as it did an alternative explanation of the economic problems of the time as well as a potential remedy . |
| 7 | Proud of his own appearance and punctilious in all his social and religious observances , he was praised by the Spanish ambassador of the time as being |
| 8 | For ten years after graduation he worked as a curate in Somerset , most of the time as assistant to his father . |
| 9 | In this they reflected the children 's literature of the time as created by authors such as Noel Streatfield , Christine Pullien-Thompson and Enid Blyton . |
| 10 | a little bit , but not a great deal those gears most of the time as well the ones that we cruise in top gear I do n't think that 's really for me |
| 11 | There is a double stillage with casks marked with the time as well as the date . |
| 12 | A marriage contracted by a person so insane at the time as not to appreciate the nature of the obligations of the married state may be set aside at the suit of either party . |
| 13 | The Commander-in-Chief in Scotland was Lieutenant-General Sir John Cope , later the subject of a derisory song ‘ Hey , Johnny Cope ’ , and unkindly described at the time as ‘ a little , dressy , finical [ i.e. fussy ] man ’ . |
| 14 | This was part of Fender 's problem , of course , and the 30″ scale length strings were so unusual at the time as to cause major headaches in manufacture . |
| 15 | His girlfriend was chatting up some big-shot drama critic at the time as well . |
| 16 | Strange how what you regard at the time as being your downfall , often turns out to be the making of you . |
| 17 | SBC Securities Ltd , known at the time as SBCI Savory Milln Ltd agreed to underwrite the cash alternative and rights issue , a potential liability of £56m . |
| 18 | This decision was criticised at the time as unnecessarily ambitious , both by visiting American engineers ( who were unused to Britain 's highly integrated planning approach ) and by the press , but the BEA 's experience was to prove the critics wrong . |
| 19 | The station at Stamford was built in a plain Tudor style and was described by the Stamford Mercury at the time as ‘ in an Elizabethan Style similar to Burghley House ’ . |
| 20 | The vessel was probably made in the East Celtic area during the second or first century B.C. The representations give some insight into the deities imagined at the time as well as into some of the rituals involved in their worship . |
| 21 | But er , I did n't believe in , well it was me dad 's pigs of course , but I was there at the time as well like , you know . |
| 22 | Although hailed at the time as ‘ the most important discovery in England [ and perhaps ] … of greater importance than any other yet made at home or abroad ’ , during the next forty years it became increasingly difficult to reconcile this hominid with the burgeoning human fossil record from Asia and Africa . |
| 23 | There were U A B , Unemployment Assistant Board and there was a means test at the time as well . |
| 24 | It has , of course , been a continuous feature of Britain 's involvement in Europe that each new step , seen at the time as ‘ technical ’ , ‘ consequential ’ , ‘ of no real account ’ , is later declared to be the point at which the pass was sold . |
| 25 | If you remember your , from , from your history at school the , the , the first world war the Americans in the historic role of arriving at wars rather late erm came in to the first world war to win it for us erm and after it President Wilson who used to be professor of politics at Princeton , just put that in , er President Wilson created , essentially cos we were all bankrupt at the time as usual er the Americans the only ones who had any money left at the end of the wars , erm President Wilson helped to create the League of Nations , the forerunner of the United Nations but the U S senate refused to ratify the agreement . |
| 26 | It was a reasonable thing to do at the time as the fund was in surplus . |
| 27 | ‘ And you were only 18 at the time as opposed to being a grown man . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ And you were only 18 at the time as opposed to being a grown man . ’ |
| 29 | He had been employed in the 1960s by the firm , which was known at the time as Maranite Ltd , when asbestos fibre was used to make boards for doors for the shipbuilding industry . |
| 30 | And er my memories really go back to er the , probably the more pleasant things in the erm mission parties that we were invited to , the film shows in the Officers ' Mess , er going to a Glenn Miller dance erm which was held in the hangar up here erm , I do n't think we really , or I really appreciated them so much at the time as I do now . |