Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet trade with Latin America at the time of the Cuban revolution compared distinctly unfavourably with its trade with Asia and Africa . |
| 2 | I am sure that , despite his letter in your May issue ( Arm 's length or arm 's twist ) John Mallet really understands as well as the next man that , when I wrote in my letter of 10 March in The Times that ‘ we do not apply the arm 's length principle to the national museums and galleries ’ , I was saying no more than that there is no funding body between the Office of Arts and Libraries ( now the Department for the National Heritage ) and the national museums and galleries as there is between the Government and the subsidised theatres and performing arts bodies . |
| 3 | With the VSX4 test suite already announced and starting to ship , X/Open Co is preparing to go public on XPG4 itself , and has set early October as the time when it will spill the beans . |
| 4 | The family was forced to flee ahead of the Russian advance in 1916 , and eventually settled in Vienna , where Erika learned her first card game , Preference , common in central Europe at the time . |
| 5 | All the Careers Services will be running an On Course help and advice service from 21 August to the time when higher education courses actually start . |
| 6 | The particular combination of dignity and personal pride which governs John Ridd 's behaviour through his many years of devoted service to Lorna Doone is carefully related to the social attitudes of rural Somerset at the time of the Restoration . |
| 7 | To the polite scepticism of orthodox American archaeologists , the expedition 's leaders are interpreting some of the hieroglyphs as containing ancient Hebrew letters and symbols which refer to Ophir , or Beth-Horon , the gold source of ancient Palestine in the times of King Solomon . |
| 8 | Ostensibly it is a tale of the supernatural ; of religious hysteria and demonic possession set in 16th-century Germany at the time of the Inquisition . |
| 9 | Beyond doubt the Maldive Islands in the Bay of Bengal were much the richest source in southern Asia at the time of the Arab and Portuguese domination of the Indian Ocean . |
| 10 | Such questions preoccupied Eliot at the time . |
| 11 | Another important declaration was made in 1328 , when the Treaty of Northampton temporarily ended Scottish invasions of northern England in the time of Edward III . |
| 12 | Bronze easting of Thor the thunder God who was worshipped extensively in northern Europe at the time of Charlemagne 's enforced military evangelism . |
| 13 | In other parts of western Europe at the time , such homogeneity was not typical . |
| 14 | Moslem Spain was the most cultured society in Western Europe at the time . |
| 15 | Apparently from the notes , a certain Fruchtbaum in the Times Literary Supplement has described Charles on setting out on the Beagle voyage in such terms , which is certainly an exaggeration , but I do not know anyone else who has ever subscribed to that opinion . |
| 16 | Suddenly I realised that I had not heard it before but read it before — word for word in the article that the Secretary of State for Education and Science wrote last Friday in The Times Educational Supplement . |