Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the times [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was reported in The Times of 6th March 1975 that Mr Toffrey Reeves , a surveyor for the National House Owners Association , which is a cut-price conveyancing group operating in England , was ordered in the High Court on 5th March to pay £3,000 damages to a client for failing to detect structural defects in the house he bought . |
| 2 | The attention of members is drawn to the decision of the Divisional Court of Appeal in the case of Rowe & Maw v Commissioners of Customs and Excise decided on 6th March , and reported in The Times of 8th March . |
| 3 | As reported in The Times on 4 April , Bush called for forces within Iraq to unseat Saddam , anticipating a military coup mounted by disaffected generals . |
| 4 | Then , as Michael McCarthy reported in The Times on 9 September 1989 , ‘ Europe 's biggest reservoir was closed to people and animals after the discovery of a possibly poisonous bloom of algae in the water . ’ |
| 5 | A cyclone which struck southern districts on June 2 was reported by The Times of June 3 to have killed 500 people . |
| 6 | At the same time two of the nine popularly elected representatives , Akilisi Pohive ( leader of the dissident pro-democracy movement ) and Viliami Fukofuka , were each reported by the Times of Tonga to have returned about 12,000 pa'anga to the Treasury on the grounds that overtime payment for members of the Assembly was immoral and increased the financial burden on the people . |
| 7 | I wonder if any of your readers noticed in The Times of 10 March how Lord Armstrong of Ilminster of the Victoria and Albert Museum 's Trustees , quite casually assumed that the independence of our national museums had already been similarly compromised ? |
| 8 | According to The Times of Dec. 29 this was a reference to events in Eastern Europe and a warning to the Soviet Union not to interfere in China 's socialist system . |
| 9 | According to The Times of April 12 , the DPK claimed that 50 people had been killed during an attack by government troops on a refugee centre near Halabja on the Iranian border . |
| 10 | According to The Times of June 24 ministers also disagreed on whether the Soviet Union should be allowed to borrow from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) in excess of its borrowing limit of 6 per cent — the same as its shareholding in the bank . |
| 11 | The rate of emigration to western Germany was still 20,000 a month , according to The Times of July 1 . |
| 12 | Both authors appear to belittle the great range of plants that were living at the times of their animals and the ways in which these plants were constantly evolving and migrating . |
| 13 | During the commission set up in 1888 to inquire into charges made by The Times against Charles Stewart Parnell [ q.v. ] he provided crucial assistance to Parnell in exposing Richard Pigott [ q.v. ] as a forger . |
| 14 | It is seen in The Facts to belong to the times in which the writer lived when he wrote the novel , when opposition to the Vietnam War , and to a President Johnson perceived as monstrous , took to the street-wisdom of a farcical obscenity . |
| 15 | You hear about the times of good King Hal , and the rather implausible suggestion that he wrote ‘ Greensleeves ’ , but I do n't see him in any romantic light at all . |
| 16 | Mechanised steam-powered presses , beginning with The Times in 1814 , contributed to the expansion of newspaper printing in the 1820s and 1830s and had spread to book printing by the 1850s . |
| 17 | Classement par equipes Team classification , based on the times of the three fastest riders from each team on each stage . |
| 18 | Indeed , the outline of the lake may have altered in the times between the individual surveys . |
| 19 | This is no easy task when it is aimed at an entire work force and when the normal reading habits of the employees may range from The Times at one end to The Sun at the other . |
| 20 | Advertisement placed in The Times by the Engineering Council |
| 21 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 22 | This was the argument voiced by The Times on 8 October : ‘ The working of parliamentary institutions , of democratic responsibility , and of constitutional practice , demands it . ’ |
| 23 | For an industry with a turnover of billions — £2.5bn in 1991 according to the Publishers Association — the UK book business may seem behind the times to an outsider . |
| 24 | During 1970 and 1971 a series of articles and editorials appeared in the Times on the poor quality of TVZ transmissions , particularly on the Copperbelt . |
| 25 | Happily , a footnote in her diary for 19 December 1975 states that , ‘ His letter , condemning industrial action by the consultants , duly appeared in The Times on 22 December 1975 . ’ |
| 26 | " I 'm referring to a leading article which appeared in The Times concerning the Exhibition and which I should like to read you ( by a fortunate chance I happen to have it on my person ) . |
| 27 | In December a series of articles appeared in The Times by two journalists , Pat Butcher and Peter Nichols , on drug abuse in athletics . |
| 28 | Dyson then went about the task of enlisting support for the organisation , a process which was successful , as can be seen from the thirty-three signatories ( including Lord Attlee , the Bishops of Birmingham and Exeter , Isaiah Berlin , Julian Huxley , Bertrand Russell ) to the letter that appeared in The Times in March 1958 . |
| 29 | The ‘ special areas ’ legislation of the prewar national coalition government stemmed partly from a series of unsigned articles — ‘ Places without a Future ’ — which he wrote for The Times in 1934 . |
| 30 | If Spain is to keep up its tourist figures the resorts need to move with the times by providing clean beaches and modernised hotels . |