Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | One has to ask whether different pressure groups within the Roman Church became equally hostile to Galileo , or whether , as some believed at the time , he was a victim of a Jesuit plot — of an act of revenge for insults he had meted out to prominent members of that order . |
| 2 | This happened at the time when the long bow was finally succeeded by the musket and pike . |
| 3 | Well er to me it does n't quite ring true , it 's always been the boys ' ploughing match and it always will be as far as I 'm concerned but I think this happened at the time post war I ca n't say exactly which year , when the date was changed from easter time to August . |
| 4 | Some said at the time that Leviathan had been written for Cromwell , and indeed Hobbes did say that it supported a ‘ conscientious obedience to the present government ’ of the Protectorate . |
| 5 | Of the 16 patients , three died at the time of their first hospital admission and five died subsequently . |
| 6 | I was only a boy then , and it all began at the time my father owned the Admiral Benbow inn , at Black Hill Cove . |
| 7 | British culture can often be fiercely nationalistic , as we all saw at the time of the Falklands war . |
| 8 | This , as many said at the time , was not a function which judges and courts could perform successfully . |
| 9 | I went from a er boy 's school and all that that implied at the time in England , strict discipline , uniforms , that sort of thing , to er High School , a mixed High School in Ohio where the atmosphere was totally different , much more relaxed , much more friendly . |
| 10 | Analysts had been bullish on the indicator ahead of the announcement , but in the event , the US Semiconductor Industry Association 's book-to-bill ratio for February fell to a still very healthy 1.18 , from 1.20 in January , the latter figure revised upwards from the 1.19 reported at the time . |
| 11 | Yet those elements you mention were true to the life most young people in particular knew at the time . |
| 12 | Purporting to describe the end of the world ( ‘ 1984 ’ ) , one of the track titles , was the chosen dat ) and sprawling wildly across musical styles , some might call this album preposterous ( several did at the time ) . |
| 13 | Purporting to describe the end of the world ( ‘ 1984 ’ ) , one of the track titles , was the chosen dat ) and sprawling wildly across musical styles , some might call this album preposterous ( several did at the time ) . |