Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [prep] one time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over time , the wets who at one time favoured a change in economic policy virtually disappeared . |
| 2 | Lord Shawcross , who at one time or another was chairman of the Bar Council , the Press Council , the Medical Research Council , the Takeover Panel , and assorted royal commissions and tribunals of inquiry , claimed when questioned that the consideration uppermost in the minds of such figures was ‘ the national interest ’ . |
| 3 | ROBIN Leigh-Pemberton , Governor of the Bank of England , is among those who at one time have felt the tug of proportional representation , which Paddy Ashdown is saying he will demand in return for his support in a hung parliament . |
| 4 | Albert has scorned a stammer that he will tell you has got him into trouble on more than one occasion on the golf course ; and he emerged from brother Alfie 's shadow to partner his own Open champion — a player who at one time was reputed to throw a 5-iron almost as long as he could hit it , and who , it was told , sometimes sacked two caddies a week — to the prized claret jug . |
| 5 | A disappointing album from a band who at one time seemed to show a lot of promise . |
| 6 | Dr Stevenson , who at one time held the chair of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Virginia Medical School , worked with children in India and other eastern countries ; his findings are published in his book , Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation . |
| 7 | The new , strong-willed princess , who at one time would have crumbled under pressure , was alleged to have fired off a stiff , legalistic reply . |
| 8 | He specialised in gathering historical , topographical and genealogical documents and manuscripts , so was a great source of supply for Sir Thomas Phillipps ( see pp.29–30 ) who at one time owed him £3,000 . |
| 9 | After a long and difficult series of negotiations Nicholas managed to save the greater part of the estate of his brother , who at one time seemed likely to be ruined . |
| 10 | In recent years prisons have accumulated increasing numbers of mentally disordered people who at one time would probably been cared for in the old asylums . |
| 11 | , John ( 1624–1701 ) , republican administrator and colonial governor , was the son of John Blackwell , a Puritan-inclined London businessman , who at one time supplied the royal household with groceries and latterly settled in Mortlake in Surrey , and his wife , who came from the Smithesby family , royal household servants . |
| 12 | Ecuadorian and Peruvian troops , who at one time were reported to be only yards apart , were reported on Oct. 15 to have withdrawn simultaneously from their common border in order to avoid a confrontation . |
| 13 | The Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lane , who at one time rejected an appeal against the conviction of the Birmingham Six , is to retire and be replaced by Lord Justice Taylor . |
| 14 | His father , who at one time held the British transfer fee record , said there was no arm-twisting when Andrew signed for his home club . |
| 15 | Mr Chance , who at one time owned a cruiser , holds an international helmsman certificate from the Royal Yachting Association . |