Example sentences of "[that] in [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story , in brief , is that in colonial times the British banks would not lend to Sri Lankans , except to the very wealthy or very influential . |
| 2 | The story goes that in colonial times , La Paz 's upper classes used to hold a three-day festival in the main square , graciously dispensing banknotes and coins to their children and servants . |
| 3 | ‘ But here we are , drinking wine sitting on a bed that in former times would have been on fire by now . ’ |
| 4 | Chan makes the point that in recent times academics have fared better than the average urban worker . |
| 5 | The irony is that in recent times , Parliament as a whole has demonstrated its interest in accountability as a constitutional principle . |
| 6 | The Irish Bank Officials ’ Association , over the years , has made a tremendous contribution to the welfare of its members and we know that in recent times IBOA has been engaged in many struggles to protect those terms and conditions . |
| 7 | It estimates that in that time it cut its carbon dioxide emissions by more than 20 per cent . |
| 8 | On the other hand , the mere fact that in that time she has overtaken it most one of some 20 countries that outranked her in per capita terms is enough to establish that her record is less than spectacular . |
| 9 | It had been five years since the President had last presented the awards for gallantry and to voluntary workers , and in his opening remarks he reflected that in that time over 7,600 lives had been saved , 180 new boats built and lifeboat technology had advanced by leaps and bounds . |
| 10 | ‘ We have still got ten days to go and I 'm quite sure that in that time our efforts will mean Mr Gregory will be all right . ’ |
| 11 | I think that in due time the British people will want to know a bit more than that . |
| 12 | Local folklore has it that in prehistoric times men drove wild cattle to their deaths over Combe Scar and ate them where they fell at the foot of the crag ( cattle bones are reputed to have been found there ) . |
| 13 | In place of the nineteenth-century sense of a succession of literary historical " periods " , scholars have now revealed a continuum of " interlocking elements " making it clear that in all times the " spirit of literature " is one . |
| 14 | It is curious that in modern times the Cabinet , though it has always insisted on considering particular proposals for developments of policy and their cost , has never thought it necessary to review the development of expenditure under the Civil Estimates as a whole . |
| 15 | Oakeshott argues that in modern times the conception of the state as universitas has taken hold , primarily as a result of the extension of the executive apparatus of civil rule . |
| 16 | It is not surprising that in modern times English and Commonwealth courts should try to avoid its worse consequences or , as one of Llewellyn 's bêtes noire , that the Uniform Commercial Code should abandon it . |
| 17 | You know , cos I 'm , I 'm spending money and time on him that really has those in theory I would be spending on my own grand children , however , I take the attitude that in modern times , people do n't , people are not obliged |
| 18 | Tracing this back to the seventeenth century , he points out that in such times , it is ‘ always those crimes that are associated with the materially disadvantaged underclass which have provided the continuing thread within this history of respectable fears … |
| 19 | In his book Poetic Diction he had pointed out that in earlier times , those who first used language did not necessarily distinguish between ‘ metaphorical ’ and ‘ literal ’ uses of words . |
| 20 | Modern man must remember that in earlier times people washed less frequently and that , however chauvinistic we may find it today , women were usually available to fetch water whenever it was needed , even over a distance of several miles . |
| 21 | Excavations elsewhere have demonstrated that in pre-Norman times small hamlets and farmsteads were widespread , occupying even the most inhospitable upland sites . |
| 22 | From the point of view of politics , the meaning is that in exceptional times , one does well to join with the lowly , for this affords the possibility of renewal . |
| 23 | And as the pressure mounts , squatters are encroaching on what was once idyllic whites only areas and the residents of Hout Bay near Capetown are made increasingly aware that in this time of political reform , they are no longer sheltered from the reality of life in the black townships . |
| 24 | The old cliché has it that in hard times pop culture goes soft , entertainment becomes more trivial , more ‘ escapist ’ . |
| 25 | There is now , however , a non-zero probability that in any time period a price war will break out , and in an infinitely repeated market it is virtually certain that one will be observed . |
| 26 | In my ignorance of the situation , however , I conjectured that in these times of diminishing reactor safety research budgets , there might have to be a choice on the part of some countries between the two projects — but , ‘ tremendous hindrance ’ ! |
| 27 | It 's just that in these times … ’ |
| 28 | He was probably thinking that in these times it was not worth taking the risk of offending anyone , just in case they were agents of Horemheb and you ended up in an emerald mine on the Eastern Coast . |
| 29 | It is true that in later times particular questions arising in a case before him , suitable for trial by jury , are sometimes directed by the Chancellor to be so tried . |
| 30 | Over the centuries these Greeks and Karians intermarried with the natives , so that in hellenistic times people called ‘ Karomemphites ’ and ‘ Hellenomemphites ’ , obvious results of miscegenation , are attested in Memphis . |