Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the time in " in BNC.
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| 1 | An Australian schoolteacher in Hawaii wanting to write a story on the States invading Panama for The Times in London . |
| 2 | The irony is that in striving to perpetuate a certain mythology about his own prescience and consistency , about France 's fundamental unity , and about the mediocrity of the times in comparison with the exalted hours of the war and the liberation , de Gaulle actually masked one of the great achievements , perhaps the greatest achievement , of his political career . |
| 3 | … there was , of course , a dispute between the parties at the time in question in the sense that they could not agree on the amount of the yearly rent ; but it was not a dispute in which each had formulated a view which was then placed for decision before the independent surveyor . |
| 4 | The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were proved to be a forgery by The Times in 1921 and this went some way to defuse the growth of anti-semitic tendencies within the wider political culture . |
| 5 | In fact ( the myth persists ) , even if the slim person does not especially like these foods , he or she sticks with them for a large part of the time in order to maintain a trim figure . |
| 6 | He was on the run for forty-three days , sheltering for part of the time in a cornfield , being fed occasionally by sympathetic French farmers , but was hunted down and sent to captivity in Belgium . |
| 7 | If your students want to study spoken English , you will spend part of the time in the classroom working on examples of the spoken language . |
| 8 | Because Mr. Thorpe resides for part of the time in London , he decided to try another Health Authority . |
| 9 | I have so far had 4 people interested in travelling from the UK , and another 3 who would like to join us for part of the time in NZ . |
| 10 | With all his theological subtlety and insight into human behaviour he accepted the common views of the time in attributing to the saints in Heaven a concern for their worldly rights which , if they had not been part of an eternal order of the universe , would have disgraced a schoolboy . |
| 11 | The correspondent of The Times in Riga , with access to both current Western and Soviet sources , picked up the discrepant views of M. Litvinov at the Hague and L. Krasin , the Commissar for Trade in Moscow . |
| 12 | Douglas Reed , for example , who resigned as Central European Correspondent of The Times in 1938 over his newspaper 's support for appeasement politics , and whose background and life history read like the classic facsimile of the alleged fascist , proved in practice to be a crusading anti-fascist . |
| 13 | In this post he continued his excursions into China , and in 1897 was appointed resident correspondent of The Times in Peking . |
| 14 | ‘ It is a worrying phenomenon which I think is a reflection of the times in which we live . |
| 15 | And it al and proje on any projected traffic flows , you 'll be operating well over capacity by the time in which the new settlement is developed . |
| 16 | During this period he also led the British expedition to observe the transit of Venus in Hawaii ( 1874 ) , travelled in Siberia and the Gobi desert , and reported the Russo-Turkish war for The Times in 1877 . |
| 17 | Developments and changes in education must not be considered in isolation , unrelated to the political , economic and social climate of the times in which they emerge . |
| 18 | A leading article in The Times in September 1936 noted that : ‘ last year the population of our country probably reached its peak . |
| 19 | On the first world tour in 1872–3 Thomas Cook filed several reports of his travels to The Times in a series called ‘ Letters from the Sea and from Foreign Lands ’ . |
| 20 | Thomson 's son poured so much money into The Times in the vain effort to modernize it in the late 1970s that no one could blame him for wanting to sell it . |
| 21 | Balcon , for one , was not aware of any frustration on the part of his filmmakers , unless he was dishonest when remarking in his autobiography , ‘ It is puzzling to me in retrospect that none of my films … in any way reflected the despair of the times in which we were living . ’ |
| 22 | Solti 's conducting is simply too unstable and volatile to give much satisfaction , showing his inexperience at the time in Wagner ( how sad Knappertsbusch was n't given the assignment ) . |
| 23 | ( Such a longing , incidentally , tends to forget certain unpleasant features of the time in question : for black Americans a reassertion of eighteenth-century values would mean a return to slavery . ) |
| 24 | Thanks to the ample marble supplies at their disposal , they perfected their craft constantly and asserted their skills by producing all kinds of sculpture that blended earlier sources of inspiration with trends , styles and techniques of the times in which they lived . |
| 25 | Leavis himself is by now reduced to an expression of gratitude for the letters page of The Times in " the world of triumphant modernity , the world of power centres from which the quantity-addicted machinery of civilization is controlled , directed and exploited " and in which " literature in the old sense has ceased to matter " Henceforth the conception of English as a central force for sustaining the national cultural " heritage " would become largely the property of the right . |
| 26 | In this section are described ways of getting back into practice and of improving flying skills by making better use of the time in the air . |
| 27 | The High Court ruled on June 30 , however , that a pardon conferred on the Black Moslems at the time in return for the release of hostages and signed by the President of the Senate and the then acting head of state Joseph Emmanuel Carter , absolved them of any crimes . |
| 28 | ‘ The present gaols are really beautiful penal toys ’ , wrote a complaining correspondent to The Times in 1863 , ‘ the perfection of lodging-houses-for-single-men architecture … in a better situation Pentonville would sell well as ‘ chambers ’ ’ for Bank clerks and MPs of limited income' . |
| 29 | Landlord Bill Long , who has since moved to another pub , gave evidence in support of the defendant , verifying that he had been within his sight for the time in question , except for a brief spell when he was collecting glasses . |
| 30 | Conservative Members have had only a fraction of the time in this debate . |