Example sentences of "[noun prp] of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tyneside Shorthorns were very similar to the Ayrshire in 1790 and even as late as 1887 there was a Dutch breed in Drenthe which looked exactly like the Ayrshire of the time . |
| 2 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 3 | Fiona Hayes-Drummond of The Times , languidly beautiful , confessed to having only dipped into them . |
| 4 | Many influential Englishmen had seen the magnificent accommodation that Napoleon III was providing for his bureaucracy in the New Louvre and the new architecture that was arising in the Paris of the time . |
| 5 | The Columnist of the Year award went to former MP Matthew Parris of The Times for his political sketches from the House of Commons and his regular column . |
| 6 | ‘ L'Etat c'est moi ’ was a shrewd remark , but can hardly have been intended as a definition even in the France of the time . |
| 7 | I travelled up from Kings Cross with Sidney , Daryl Bligh of the Graphic , K. B. D. Clarke of the Times , ‘ Tibby ’ Tisdale of the News , Stanford Roberts , of course , and I think we had Norton Malley with us , who would at that time I suppose have been on the Morning Post , though he later went back to the Irish Times . |
| 8 | Author Bill Bryson joins Philip Howard of The Times and Katharine Whitehorn of The Observer to explore the eccentricities of English . |
| 9 | Alan Watkins of the Observer had spent August and September as a guest in Great Houses ; Michael Jones of The Sunday Times had spent six weeks in Tuscany avoiding , whenever he could , the Gilmours , Jenkinses and Mortimers ; Peter Riddell of The Times , Hugo Young , Julia Langdon , Simon Heffer , Sir Robin Day-they were all in Brighton on expenses , refreshed and ready for the fray . |
| 10 | Her every move had been followed by jaundiced and world-weary senior politicians ; she had noticed a gleam of lust in the good eye of a privy Councillor , and Peter Riddell of The Times had made a note of her name . |
| 11 | Swan felt very much at a disadvantage , especially when Amaranth told him that she had promised to go to The Times/Sunday Times party with Charles , who had left them for a moment to have a quick word with Peter Riddell of The Times . |
| 12 | Peter Riddell of The Times had written a piece about the Young Conservatives . |