Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] at [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | Depressed production , costly for Leyland at the time , is good news for investors now because it has endowed the Stag with scarcity appeal . |
2 | and then he kept , he was on , will you come and work for me will you come , I was working for Holmes at the time |
3 | The case will be keenly remembered by the hon. and learned Member for Perth and Kinross ( Sir N. Fairbairn ) , who was the principal Law Officer for Scotland at the time . |
4 | Many of those who stayed behind , especially the adherents of the Bogomil faith , accepted Islam , and their descendants form the nucleus of the Islamic community which embraced 37 per cent of the population of the republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina at the time of the 1981 census . |
5 | ( Once , taking the night train from London to Paris , I found myself in the locked sleeping compartment of a locked coach in a locked hold beneath the waterline on a cross-channel ferry ; I did n't think of Jonah at the time , but perhaps my panic was related to his . |
6 | I believe erm the rulers of Kuwait at the time were very erm wise to make such treaty with the British for the protection of their country and the British respected the Kuwait autonomy at the time and this joint erm respect for each other I believe which gave rise to Kuwait to be what it is today . |
7 | Well , after all , we were in the middle of Scotland at the time . |
8 | The move may seem relatively trivial , but it is a telling comment on the declining position of the Church of England at a time when it least needs it . |
9 | It would not be surprising if Malcolm renewed his efforts c.1016-18 , considering the likely state of England at the time , and Cnut could well have acted against him once free to do so . |
10 | Not a challenging or penetrating tour of enquiry , especially as the population of Aberdeen at the time must have been not less than twenty thousand . |
11 | Degenhart 's thesis met with the approval of Berenson at the time , but certain Italian art historians expressed hostility . |
12 | In a famous essay , H. J. Laski recorded that between 1832 and 1906 , out of 139 judges appointed , 80 were Members of the House of Commons at the time of their nomination and 11 others had been candidates for Parliament ; that , of the 80 , 63 were appointed by their own party while in office ; and 33 of them had been either Attorney-General or Solicitor-General . |
13 | It was the respondents ' task to investigate ‘ what was the true financial position of Atlantic at the time of its acquisition and , if it was different from the way it was represented , how and why the truth was concealed : ’ Hoffmann J. [ 1991 ] B.C.C. 651 , 661 . |
14 | Jeremiah was God 's messenger to the people of Israel at a time of great national distress . |
15 | It would appear , for example , that either the statement in the that Molla Kestelli was kadi of Istanbul at the time of the death of Molla Ala'al-Din Ali b . |
16 | Bishop Goss of Liverpool at the time declared disgustedly that ‘ bishops who went to Rome as princes of the household to confer with their august Father will return like satraps dispatched to their provinces ’ . |
17 | Gregory makes this contemporary with the destruction of the Burgundian kingdom in 534 , but this is chronologically impossible , since Quintianus , who was bishop of Clermont at the time of the attack , died in c. 524 , and Theuderic seems to have died in 533 . |
18 | Thus Goldthorpe and Lockwood ( 1969 ) carried out their research among the manual workers of Luton at a time when academic opinion was saying that such people were beginning to take on middle-class characteristics . |
19 | The man who offered this piece of advice turned out to be Lord Cole , who was chairman of Unilever at the time and went on to be chairman of Rolls-Royce and several other major companies . |
20 | The fruits of performance are proprietary rights and choses in action assignable under statute even if the contract is personal ( Linden Gardens Trust Limited v Lenesta Sludge Disposals Ltd and St Martins Property Corporation Ltd and Another v Sir Robert McAlpine and Sons Ltd 57 BLR 57 , both cases have been joined and are being heard in an appeal to the House of Lords at the time of writing ) . |
21 | In spite of some bickering and belittling of Richardson at the time , it was later acknowledged that by far the greatest part of the credit for its successful completion belonged to him . |
22 | He studied at the University of Oxford at a time when Colet had thrown off the old method of scholastic teaching , which consisted of repeating the comments of previous interpreters of the Bible , and instead , in his lectures on St Paul 's Epistles , was explaining their historic background and expounding their spiritual truths . |
23 | The same was true of cattle in much of Europe at the time , and probably reflected neglected animal husbandry and a failure to breed selectively in a period when crop-growing was far more important than livestock . |
24 | Tax rates vary from one country to another : a prime example being VAT , which in some parts of Europe at the time of writing is over 20 per cent on certain items . |
25 | Erm but er when the war finished , when the war finished and the Home Guard stood down , I ca n't remember who was the mayor of Walsall at the time , but they had a reception in the town hall for the Home Guard and everyone that was in the Home Guard was invited before we hand before we st handed our uniforms in , was invited to attend and I must say with great pride that I was can still remember it now , that the wife and I went to the reception and I was in the uniform and it 'd be the mace bearer I presume that was at the door and he asked your name and er rank and he shouted out your name and rank when you went in and you was greeted by the mayor and mayoress inside the ves the hall of the town hall , and erm I mean er quite proud to be Corporal and Mrs you know and it I mean everyone that went , I mean their rank and name and who was with them , you know , was it was quite quite a er er quite a something of to look back to of interest that was , you know , when we stood down . |
26 | Collinson also acted as intermediary in obtaining seeds from America , particularly those which gave rise to an extensive plantation of evergreens in the park , a principal feature of Woburn at the time . |
27 | Sister Catherine Dunne , a nun of the Sisters of Mercy Order , who was driving towards Armagh at the time , was also killed in the explosion and her passenger , a social worker , was seriously injured . |
28 | Gordon Prentice ( Lab , Pendle ) urged : ‘ Will you join me in condemning the 24 per cent pay increase and the 35 per cent pay increase of the chief executive and chairman of Rolls-Royce at a time when they are sacking 5,000 skilled workers , including 170 in my constituency ? ’ |
29 | No reason was given for the departure of Rourke at the time , and this only served to intensify speculation . |
30 | Charles Short , the surgeon , was Mayor of Bedford at the time and as such , the presiding coroner : |