Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the time was " in BNC.
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| 1 | For later he also believed that the motor accident and its consequences could have destroyed his morale but for the tranquil worship of the little Oxfordshire village which for the time was his base . |
| 2 | It gave the 33,000 manual workforce 8.9 per cent , which at the time was considerably higher than the ‘ going rate ’ . |
| 3 | Once he had made the switch , however , Finniston tackled his successive responsibilities with great relish , including the awesome task of reorganising the British Steel Corporation , which at the time was 260,000 strong . |
| 4 | The 68-year-old financier was found guilty of misleading thousands of investors into buying risky securities in Lincoln 's parent company American Continental , which at the time was already in deep financial trouble . |
| 5 | These two arms shipments to Iran resulted in the much publicised release of David Jacobsen to Terry Waite on 2 November 1986 which at the time was said to have been made on humanitarian grounds following Waite 's appeal to the Iranians . |
| 6 | The site is recorded during the 16th century as being occupied by ‘ Sury ’ or ‘ Shewry ’ Mills , which at the time was operated as both a corn and two fulling mills . |
| 7 | Schott was attached to the Raiding Forces Staff G(R) at headquarters , which at the time was led by Colonel Pembroke . |
| 8 | They recorded one demo tape at Cargo Studios in Rochdale which at the time was being patronised by a legion of new wave bands spanning Joy Division to Orchestral Manoeuvres in The Dark . |
| 9 | Morning by morning in my regular reading , which at the time was in the Song of Songs , I heard the Lord calling me to a new stage in ministry . |
| 10 | In both cases it is open to others also to define the water as having something wrong with it : as one officer put it , having described an oil pollution which at the time was beyond his control : ‘ I prayed for rain and darkness ’ . |
| 11 | The bit about odd jeans was totally accurate , by the way ; Cousin Josh made his fortune firstly by dealing in cars , then by risking all on a jeans company which at the time was tottering on the very hem of bankruptcy ; under Josh 's regime , their jeans were n't any better or any cheaper than anybody else 's , but he had the garments made in odd sizes ; waists of 29 , 31 , 33 inches , and so on , as opposed to the products from all other companies , domestic and foreign , which tended to favour the even numbers . |
| 12 | SHUKOKAI One of Mabuni 's senior students , Chojiro Tani , split from the organization to develop his own theories on karate for competition , which at the time was gaining great momentum . |
| 13 | The Bill would have altered the definition of rape which at the time was classified in the Italian Penal Code as a ‘ crime against morals and custom ’ , so that it became a crime of violence against the person . |
| 14 | Within our Oldham branch there have been two recent cases of such abuse one being Hartleys where an employer took sixty thousand pounds out of the pension fund and put it into Hartleys , which at the time was in financial difficulties . |
| 15 | Instead they gave the name of the current dynasty — which at the time was the Ch'in . |
| 16 | Accordingly I went ahead and circulated all potential volunteers with a call for the weekends of June 12-13 and June 19-20 , which at the time was two months away and I assumed this would allow enough time for SNH approval to come through . |
| 17 | Er and Professor is right that it was paragraph B er which at the time was A A er it 's now B B , that caused er me and er my colleagues some difficulty erm in er policy and resources and it will be the reason for which we do n't support it this afternoon . |
| 18 | At the Madrid summit last summer , Sir Geoffrey Howe , who at the time was collaborating closely with Mr Lawson , tried to insist that she name a date after 1 July next year on which Britain would join . |
| 19 | In the meantime all we have is the popular version that Blake was befriended by a 32-year-old Irishman , Sean Bourke , who at the time was coming to the end of a seven-year sentence and was living in the prison hostel just inside the perimeter wall of the prison but allowed to go out to work each day on parole . |
| 20 | It was all fun , frolic , and magnificent display — apart from an attempt to assassinate the Tsar , who at the time was seated beside the Emperor in an open carriage . |
| 21 | Such a brigade did not exist , but had been dreamed up by Brigadier Dudley Clark , who at the time was in charge of an outfit dealing with deception plans . |
| 22 | It was a good case he wanted us to remember that there 's a hunger for the word of God and that what we should be worried about was poverty in the things of the spirit but he made the blank statement and it shocked one young man called John who at the time was the minister of a church extension charge in one of our deprived housing situations . |
| 23 | Apollinaire , who at the time was fascinated by the interrelation of the arts , and was exploring the visual possibilities of poetry in his Calligrammes ( for which one of the original titles was Moi aussi je suis peintre ) , was inspired by Delaunay 's paintings Les Fenêtres to compose , late in 1912 , his poem of the same name , in which the means are to a certain extent analogous . |
| 24 | Miss Jeanette , who at the time was Nichol 's 16year-old girlfriend , told how a week after the attack they were stopped at a police road block . |
| 25 | In an interview with police , Smith , who at the time was going through divorce proceedings but living in the same house as her husband , told them : ‘ It was him or me . ’ |
| 26 | He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was . |
| 27 | The bigger problem for me at the time was the way the orchestra was playing . |
| 28 | What interested me at the time was whether the ‘ naturally ’ weak non-metallic crystals could be made strong too . |
| 29 | No doubt there will be some who dismiss such utterances as hypocritical , asking how such views can be reconciled with the way Mr Chatrier , as President of the French Tennis Federation , worked so hard to provide Paris , in what was already a crowded autumn calendar , with what at the time was the richest official indoor tournament , other than The Masters , in terms of prize money . |
| 30 | However , the main problem that concerned Pat , Gabriel and myself at the time was not so much the details of the biochemistry , but a theoretically more important matter . |