Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eastern winds have brought what had been fair sport back to a normal level for the time of year . |
| 2 | We had encountered suggestions , in Prieuré de Sion sources , that certain of its early members , and of their offshoot , the Knights Templar , had established contact with certain Essene/Zadokite/Nazarean sects still in existence during the time of the Crusades , more than a thousand years after Jesus 's era . |
| 3 | Two recent attempts to invoke the EEC competition rules before the English courts were : Shearson Lehman 's attempt to prevent the London Metal Exchange fixing a closing-out price for tin contracts in existence as the time of the collapse of the tin market ; and Macarthy PLC 's attempt to obtain an injunction restraining a share allocation and discount scheme introduced by a pharmaceutical wholesaler , which it alleged distorted competition . |
| 4 | To be fair , these materials performed a useful function for a time in the propellers of Spitfires and similar aircraft . |
| 5 | From the castle he ruled the lake , more as pirate than governor , choosing just the right moment to sell the fortress to the Milanese during the time of the Spanish-French war . |
| 6 | The six steam locomotives helping to run the train services between Swanage and Harman 's Cross during the special weekend cover over half a century of British steam locomotive development — from Victorian times during the time of Gladstone and Disraeli through to the ‘ new dawn ’ of the 1960s and the era of the present Queen and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan . |
| 7 | There were proposals about the time of Nationalisation , when the Regional Boundaries were being drawn up . |
| 8 | Himself an illegitimate son of Mary 's father , James V , and a collaborator in the murder of Darnley , Moray held on to his captive for a time in that Loch Leven castle where the queen had also been imprisoned . |
| 9 | Arthur immediately started to tell a story about a time in music hall when he had set out to behave less admirably and had cost a theatre manager a packet . |
| 10 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
| 11 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
| 12 | Mrs Thatcher , like Mr Heath before her , clearly regarded Opposition as a time of preparation for government . |
| 13 | Before 1781 it had consisted of only eight houses , but in that year the Strutts — who had gone into partnership for a time with the then-needy Arkwright — built the large cotton mill that still stands there . |
| 14 | It is interesting to note in these three references the great gap between the time of the events referred to in the history , 1935 , and the books referred to , their publication dates being 1954 , 1955 and 1962 . |
| 15 | RUSHIE IN GEAR FOR THE TIME OF HIS LIFE |
| 16 | Despite the entry for a time of media conglomerates such as the Mirror Group and Thomsons into the West African press , I think it is still fair to say that the primary motivation for producing a newspaper in Nigeria is political rather than commercial . |
| 17 | It seemed surprisingly hot in the carriage for the time of year . |
| 18 | Albini — unlike many — recalls '80s alternative rock as a time of goofiness . |
| 19 | Yet Brandt , born illegitimate , exiled under the Nazis , who had even become a Norwegian citizen for a time after the war , had come through many trials . |
| 20 | They did not , for instance , examine how a head looks at the development of fellow-staff after the time of first appointment . |
| 21 | The direction only applies to evidence which a party " intends to place reliance on " and so can not apply to new evidence which only comes to light after the time for serving statements has passed . |
| 22 | Sceptics might feel that they betrayed a lack of informed thought on the issue of objectives ; and certainly a good deal of the time of the economic planners , the Treasury , the Ministry and the industry over the following decades was to be devoted to the search for more meaningful objectives and standards of performance to supplement these minimal statutory requirements . |
| 23 | So important a part of our story does Macmillan 's visit to the north become that we must deal with it in some detail , and our main contemporary source for what happened is Macmillan 's own diary entries of the time for 12 and 13 May . |
| 24 | The kanun , included in a late seventeenth-century anthology ( 1095/1684 ) , purports to reflect the practice of the time of Suleyman , but that the kanun in the form published by Uzuncarsili dates from Suleyman 's time must be rejected on the grounds both that many of the kadiliks mentioned did not attain mevleviyet status until the late sixteenth or seventeenth centuries and that two of them Kandiye ( Candia ) and Kamanice ( Kamenets-Podolskiy ) — did not come into Ottoman hands until 1080/ 1669 and 1083/1672 respectively . |
| 25 | It is for only about two days either side of the time of ovulation that fertilization and conception can take place . |
| 26 | Feeble recovery in the 1590s was cut short by the famines of 1601–03 and the prolonged disruption of the Time of Troubles . |
| 27 | Walton had not met him , but interviewed his surviving friends ; the Life was written with the object of improving the standards of the clergy of the time by describing a golden age before the Civil War in which the aristocratic Herbert had renounced a brilliant career at university and at Court for the vocation of a country parson . |
| 28 | For example , within eighteen months of the time of writing , managers must implement the complex provisions of two White Papers , as well as their local plans for service provision and development within tight financial disciplines . |
| 29 | Guthlac himself was of distinguished Mercian stock and a descendant of the Iclingas , the Mercian royal dynasty ( Vita Guthlaci , chs 1 , 2 ) , and formerly an exile in the time of Ceolred 's father , Aethelred , among the Britons ( Vita Guthlaci , ch. 34 ) . |
| 30 | In France trade associations dealt both with ‘ economic ’ and ‘ social ’ matters , although , as far as industry-wide relations with trade unions were concerned , organisation among employers remained greatly underdeveloped until well after World War I. At confederal level the central ( peak ) organisation , the CNPF , also combined the functions both of an employers ' and a trade association from the time of its establishment in 1919 , as did the Confindustria in Italy . |