Example sentences of "[noun] which [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early fifteenth century Albrecht II became Holy Roman Emperor and the title remained with the House of Habsburg from 1437 until 1806 , when Napoleon abolished the institution which by that time was , in Voltaire 's words of 1756 , ‘ neither Holy , nor Roman , nor an empire ’ . |
| 2 | They fielded a ten-man defence which for some time looked like achieving the 0–0 draw they desired . |
| 3 | And he went on just across the road to Road Co-op and he bought a small loaf of bread which at that time would be about tuppence , and gave the old lady this small loaf about ten days afterwards he called again , he said , he said I 've come to see you again , now are you alright and so on , he said I 've done a foolish thing this morning , he said I 'm responsible for the flowers , altar flowers , he said and I 've left my wallet at my lodgings , and my landlady has gone down to for the day . |
| 4 | Of the ‘ scholar patriots ’ perhaps one can say that , instead , they helped to awaken the national consciousness ; and in the evening of his life Phan Boi Chau , in a moving analogy in which Vietnam was likened to an orphan child which by this time should have learned to walk and France to a tutor who felt that the child was easier to control when he was unable to run , talked of a people whose traditional values had been destroyed and who were thus a generation of uprooted people on their own soil . |
| 5 | It contained an area of nineteenth-century by-law housing , the old commercial centre of the town which by this time was in a semi-derelict condition , and the slum-cleared and redeveloped area of Dockwray Square with medium-rise council flats . |
| 6 | Pagina , a move which at that time necessitated his resignation from Canterbury . |
| 7 | Connected to the main library was a hexagonal room which for some time housed the school 's paperback bookshop . |
| 8 | We were glad to reach Rangoon which at that time of the year , early March , was very hot , and so Pop sent us up to Taungin-in the Shan States where we stayed with a delightful elderly American missionary , Miss Hughes . |
| 9 | When the Dada brochure , Cabaret Voltaire , was published in June 1916 it was ‘ a catch-all for the most diverse directions in art which at that time seemed to us to constitute ‘ Dada ’ . ’ |
| 10 | At the very least it was more selective than various predecessors which by that time had fallen into disrepute . |
| 11 | In the period 1920–6 she brought within her general theory of ideals several theories which until that time had been seen as independent . |
| 12 | Wondering what we had let ourselves in for we anchored as near as possible to Ullapool and contacted the local staff which at that time consisted of local patrol officers backed up by two visiting officers from Dingwall . |
| 13 | Although Peter Handford had intended to return to the Bath side of the tunnel at night to make recordings of the several trains which at that time ran from the north towards Bournemouth in the early hours of Saturday morning , he did not do so , partly because he was reluctant to visit the place in darkness and also because each time he visited Winsor Hill tunnel to make recordings he experienced problems and misfortunes of one sort or another . |
| 14 | They too are planted by machine but , unlike maincrop potatoes , they are lifted by hand to avoid the risk of damage to their skins which at that time have not ‘ set ’ . |
| 15 | In 1873 , Edward Dannreuther talked on the music of the future ( meaning Wagner 's ) and Sidney Colvin on taste and artistic judgement ; and in succeeding years there were always some Discourses essentially on the arts-a word which by this time had come to mean literature , music , painting and sculpture rather than crafts and techniques . |
| 16 | Later , when I felt that he could do with even more experience than he hid got at Warboys , I sent him up to RAF Grantham which at that time was training navigators . |
| 17 | It consisted of natural slabs of flattish stone which at some time in the past had been levelled by wedges , and ‘ helped ’ in places by concrete , to form a crossing-place . |
| 18 | The historical writer Gervase ( a monk of Canterbury and contemporary of Becket ) , although sometimes using the Annunciation discipline which at that time was in more general use , preferred for the bulk of his work , Chronica , Gesta Regum , etc. , the Christmas system — much to the irritation of later writers . |
| 19 | I was asked to give a detailed case of events which at that time were 18 months old , with limited documentation . |
| 20 | Ulam took his idea to Teller who developed and extended it so rapidly that the outlines of a practicable thermonuclear device were complete before the GEORGE shot ( 8 May 1951 ) ; this had been designed as part of the development programme for the classical Super which by that time had been junked . |