Example sentences of "in time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Levi 's Gedaleh and Babel 's Gadali are opposing faces of the Central European Jew in times of crisis . |
| 2 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 3 | Jay was now In Love with the impossible Lucy , Dionne went for butch crewcut teenagers , and they hugged each other 's hurt away and made love like some people offer Kleenex and brandy in times of stress . |
| 4 | In times of disorientation , intellectual or otherwise , it is sometimes best to stick to the familiar , cling to the known . |
| 5 | They are supposed to crush politicial uprisings , act as a kind of home guard in times of war and to guard buildings . |
| 6 | ... 21 AT London Scottish the role of providing rugby opportunities to Scots in London is still important , but in times of league realism , racial purity has had to give way to the expediency of also running a successful 1st XV . |
| 7 | He has miraculously survived all this , and even being education secretary , but how would he measure up to being chairman , in a party where , in times of stress , to be party chairman is a greater thing than to be a secretary of state ? |
| 8 | In Times Square an off-duty law enforcement officer felt a knife against his throat as he went to catch a train home at 11.15pm . |
| 9 | In times of political unrest , the danger that extreme measures will be taken increases . |
| 10 | Nor was it made by the authorities — except , apparently , in times of political and social crisis , the eruption of class hatred , religious and political persecution . |
| 11 | As each group of rigs arrived they moved quietly on to the sloping cobbled ramp , which in times past had been used by a civilian ferry , and with a hiss of hydraulics opened out . |
| 12 | The AMF(L) was formed in 1960 when it was decided by NATO that a show of unity amongst its members was necessary in times of international tension . |
| 13 | In times when there are ever-louder grumblings about the money that is spent maintaining the Royal Family , it is imperative that the public has its belief confirmed that they are special , and in some way different from the rest of us . |
| 14 | In times gone by , there were always lots of hedge trimmings available at the beginning of November , and it was easy to make a bonfire — with a big family you want a big bonfire . |
| 15 | ‘ In times of emergency we behave differently from normal times , ’ says Meir Edlestein , the director of the Mevasseret absorption centre . |
| 16 | In our collective folk memory — or possibly as a result of seeing too many old Hollywood movies — we think of gold in the form of coins as eminently portable in times of national emergency . |
| 17 | In our collective folk memory — or possibly as a result of seeing too many old Hollywood movies — we think of gold in the form of coins as eminently portable in times of national emergency . |
| 18 | In our collective folk memory — or possibly as a result of seeing too many old Hollywood movies — we think of gold in the form of coins as eminently portable in times of national emergency . |
| 19 | Stressing the need for the rich cadences and rhythms of the Book of Common Prayer , he said people loved them because they could remember them in times of crisis . |
| 20 | Stressing the need for the rich cadences and rhythms of the Book of Common Prayer , he said people loved them because they could remember them in times of crisis . |
| 21 | British Commonwealth links , though gossamer thin for most of the time , can become emotional ties of steel in times of crisis , drawing us into unexpected military commitments , as occurred in the Falklands Campaign . |
| 22 | In times of trouble , therefore , they tend to keep a bigger share of their portfolio at home and sell some foreign assets . |
| 23 | They arise in respect of damage done by collision , and upon advances of money or the rendering of services , such as salvage , in times of emergency . |
| 24 | God might have oversight over the destinies of nations , for example , in times of war ; but individuals would do better to rely on their own foresight , and on such pressure on the state as could be exerted by groups organised to sustain collective interests . |
| 25 | In Hindu families , therefore , often the women members stand by each other in times of stress and distress . |
| 26 | A natural tendency in times of recession is to batten down the hatches and look after our own needs , but as we sold raffle tickets in aid of our livestock projects in Uganda , people at the Royal certainly supported our scheme with cheerful generosity . |
| 27 | The Crevecoeurs had always closed ranks in times of crisis , had n't they ? |
| 28 | The Capitulary of Thionville in 805 , for instance , forbids usury , the kind of usury which involved buying cheap corn in quantity and selling it at excessive profit in times of scarcity . |
| 29 | The invasion of Italy by Hannibal precipitated a series of military disasters on Rome and had a clear effect on her coinage : the purity of the silver was reduced ; the weight standard of the bronze coinage fell away from a standard of 135g to one of only 54g ; and a coinage of gold was issued ( before the Roman imperial period , gold coinage was unusual and generally produced only in times of emergency or crisis ) . |
| 30 | Herders , occupying fixed territories with uncertain weather , used some of their people to establish marriage alliances with members of distant groups who could offer refuge in times of drought or other scarcity . |