Example sentences of "[Wh pn] at [adj] 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 . |
| 16 | The Michelin Guide to the Côte de l'Atlantique says that this eerie and impressive cavern , which communicates by a passage through the cliff to the château on the summit , was probably made in the twelfth century to shelter the relics of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem brought back from a Crusade by Pierre II of Castillon , who at that time held the château . |
| 17 | By 1971 , the tension was so great that Kapwepwe broke with Kaunda and formed the United People 's Party ( UPP ) which depended on a flimsy alliance between the Bemba and other tribal groups who at that time felt they were out in the political cold . |
| 18 | He describes the case of Mutang'ang'i one of the leading informals who at that time made foreguards for bicycles , bicycle stands and cutting machines using a series of hand-built metalworking machines which he had designed and built himself . |
| 19 | In 1940 , for example , there were widespread rumours that Julius Streicher , the detestable Jew-baiter of Nuremberg who at that time had to come before Göring — of all people — to face charges of corruption , had fled across the border with 30 million Reichmarks . |
| 20 | Along with General de Gaulle 's nephew Pierre , Ika had organised from Grenoble , in cooperation with the Maquis , the transmission of intelligence to the general himself , who at that time was in command of the Free French forces in the area . |
| 21 | He pushed through the door of the Deputy Chief of Staff , who at that time was General Neil Ritchie , and handed him his pencil-written memorandum . |
| 22 | Hope , who at that time was MP for Maidstone , seems to have conducted a solitary campaign in the House of Commons to keep the subject alive . |
| 23 | Lord John Russell , who at that time was not a member of Palmerston 's Government , said that he had heard that Panmure did not want a new building for the War Department , and he hoped that : |
| 24 | Scott , who at that time was a senior Vice-President of the Institute , later wrote that he felt he was ‘ at liberty to stir ’ . |
| 25 | Set up in 1942 under the unpromising name of the Taxation and Financial Relations Committee , the TAC was designed to provide a forum ( and perhaps a safety valve ) for the growing number of business members who at that time were excluded from Council membership , but who wished to contribute their business experience to the consideration of taxation and financial issues . |
| 26 | Undoubtedly , such a milestone was passed in December 1965 , when the recently appointed Monsignor Harris , who at that time had just gone to London as the Senior Roman Catholic Chaplain to the prison service , was invited by the holy see , to become an Auxiliary Bishop in his native diocese of Liverpool . |
| 27 | Another frequent brawler was Errol Flynn who included among his many opponents John Huston who at that time was a lieutenant making films for the army . |
| 28 | After some enquiries from Peter Thomas , who at that time was in the process of forming the Skyfame Aircraft Museum at Staverton , Glos , the Swedish company decided to donate the Firefly to the Museum , providing that sufficient funds could be raised to finance the flight from Sweden to England . |
| 29 | In 1885 , at the age of twenty-nine , he went to Paris to study with Charcot , who at that time was interested in hysteria and hypnotism . |
| 30 | They were first introduced to me when I was 14 by friends who were 16 , 17 , 18 , who at that time were going to Art College and they introduced me as it was then to five-bob deals of black and stuff like that , y'know . |