Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British authorities argued at the time that the way to tackle this problem of falling competitiveness , far from being to allow the pound to devalue , was to maintain a rigid exchange rate for sterling and so through the resulting high interest rates and tight money ‘ to squeeze inflation out of the system ’ . |
| 2 | This cloak was the principal relic of the west Frankish kings of Neustria , and wherever the Neustrian kings were , it went with them to adorn whatever building became for the time being the royal chapel . |
| 3 | It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 . ’ |
| 4 | It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 , ’ ( UX No 375 ) . |
| 5 | E. F. Loftus and Burns interpreted these results as retrograde amnesia produced by mental shock , and suggested that the impairment occurred at the time of storage of the memory . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | None of these methods seemed at the time to have any relevance to therapeutics , and the scientists who developed them would have found it very difficult to persuade the distributors of funds for medical research to support them , but without them the practical advances which came later would have been impossible . |
| 8 | Benjamin Cotton replied to the Times advertisement and undertook to ‘ preserve the mahogany doors ( still in fine fettle ) , to turn the pantry and store room into a servants ’ hall , and the brew house and cart stable into loose boxes . ’ |
| 9 | Gordon 's interest in vintage cars began during the time he was a traffic division police officer . |
| 10 | Only fourteen comprehensive schools existed at the time when Tony Crosland was writing : good grammar schools could not simply be swept away , nor the rights and duties of Local Education Authorities brushed aside . |
| 11 | Annely Juda said at the time that she would have to be carried out of the building rather than leave . |
| 12 | In 1968 Brian MacArthur suggested in The Times that of the two major educational developments under the Wilson government since 1964 the movement towards a national system of comprehensive education had received most attention : ‘ yet the development of the polytechnics , some of which will start with around 5000 students , is potentially the more revolutionary ’ . |
| 13 | The case seemed at the time , and in retrospect , to be a win for IBM . |
| 14 | The millions of pounds this district has been able to secure through I D O is testimony to this , despite the rather luke warm support received at the time from the Labour group . |
| 15 | The panic receded for the time being . |
| 16 | A recent correspondence printed in the Regimental Association journal Mars and Minerva alluded to the time in Operation Houndsworth when three aircraft had left from Fairford for the Morvan . |
| 17 | Julian Barnes ( pictured left ) was then on the staff of the Oxford English Dictionary Supplement , and Martin Amis worked for the Times Literary Supplement . |
| 18 | Forbes thus had to wait for fifteen years or so before the coveted post came up ; during this time Jameson sometimes teetered but always recovered , and his courses and museum fell behind the times . |
| 19 | It is difficult now for many people to grasp , let along appreciate , the depth and strength of the feelings of loss , defeat , and outrage which mining communities felt at the time . |
| 20 | In December a series of articles appeared in The Times by two journalists , Pat Butcher and Peter Nichols , on drug abuse in athletics . |
| 21 | They believed that there had been a stage when there was no individual property ; that is , when no ownership continued beyond the time of use . |
| 22 | Dannii said at the time : ‘ We do n't see a lot of her because our schedules clash really badly . |
| 23 | One hundred and one transient UOS relaxations occurred around the time of 60 ( 54% ) of the 112 common cavity episodes . |
| 24 | The release of Cicippio , who had been abducted by the RJO in September 1986 [ see p. 35023 ] , coincided with the payment by the USA to Iran of US$278,000,000 in compensation for Iranian weapons impounded at the time of the 1979 Iranian revolution . |
| 25 | Yet , however serious the crisis seemed at the time , and for all the interest which it has subsequently generated , it was essentially a passing thunderstorm . |
| 26 | I want this whole this place tidied by the time I get back please ? |
| 27 | This rule now removes the doubt that often existed about the duration of a notice , when the period started at the time of submission to the council . |
| 28 | The one change to what he had recounted to Mrs Wilson lay in the time he had spent in London : he told Maidstone he 'd spent six months there . |
| 29 | Gist of this intelligence ( with , of course , the utmost care to protect its source ) must have been conveyed to all regional commands in the United Kingdom , and from there filtered downward , for this moment coincided with the time when Leslie declared his willingness to perform almost any task in order to help repel invaders . |
| 30 | Two days after the debate , on 6th August , 1859 , a leader appeared in The Times which not only questioned Scott 's suitability for the appointment , but also the new attitude of the professional architect towards his client . |