Example sentences of "[be] [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | To commemorate the visit , the Prime Warden the next year , Mr. John Prideaux ( whose father had been Clerk at the time of the 450th Anniversary ) , called at the School in April with designs of a second cup and cover , which was commissioned by the Company from Miss Jocelyn Burton and was presented to the Chairman and Headmaster in July 1974 . |
| 2 | In that same summer , however , occurred the incident involving the Hurufis , to be described shortly , in which Fahreddin Acemi is clearly shown to be acting as Mufti ; and he must therefore have been Mufti at the time of Molla Arab 's putative association with him . |
| 3 | The council apparently argued that as Gloucester had not been protector at the time , any attempt on his life could not be construed as treason . |
| 4 | The council apparently argued that as Gloucester had not been protector at the time , any attempt on his life could not be construed as treason . |
| 5 | Richard I had disafforested the southern half , but they did not know whether Henry II had afforested any district which had not been forest in the time of Henry I. |
| 6 | Isidore of Seville ( d. 636 ) summed it all up thus : ‘ many who bear the attacks of the adversary and resist the desires of the flesh are martyrs , even in the time of peace , in virtue of this self-immolation to God in their heart : they would have been martyrs in the time of the persecutions ’ . |
| 7 | The stranger predicted Pearce would be chairman by the time he was fifty . |
| 8 | For events that appear to be crises at the time ( although not in a longer perspective ) occur even in the intervening years . |
| 9 | ‘ At this rate we 'll be millionaires by the time I 'm forty , ’ said Charlie with a grin . |
| 10 | Rational techniques were introduced to try to solve what were perceived to be problems at the time . |
| 11 | There were proposals about the time of Nationalisation , when the Regional Boundaries were being drawn up . |
| 12 | There was also a growing market for books as literacy increased , though there was not yet universal schooling : the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge , the Mechanics Institutes and the so-called March of Mind were features of the time leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832 , and indicating a market for non-fiction . |
| 13 | The Malthusian of June 1914 estimated that 100,000 women a year took drugs to induce miscarriage , and there were suggestions at the time that there were few mothers of large families who had not attempted abortion . |
| 14 | They held each other close , deriving comfort from one another , being sisters in a time of crisis . |
| 15 | Once or twice he 's spotted guys who were news at the time . |
| 16 | They were toddlers at the time of Watergate , not yet 10 when Mrs Thatcher came to power , Nato decided to introduce cruise and Pershing missiles and the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan . |
| 17 | The Labour Government was not prepared to let those who were pensioners at the time die in poverty , while awaiting the gradual implementation of a new scheme . |
| 18 | There was a special dispensation given to her to attend and in fact there were photographs at the time with the Queen with her . |
| 19 | On the walls of her room , there are posters from the time she was Ma'moiselle de Paris , and the going was good , before the theatre attendances dwindled and the managers played their last card , the posing nude . |
| 20 | They realise that improved techniques may disprove today 's theory , and so they no longer use the terms , true and false , right or wrong , but only value a theory for it 's usefulness at the time . |
| 21 | It is dusk by the time the wild elephants reach the funnel and now the noise of the beaters behind them is so loud that they simply keep going — into the khedda . |
| 22 | If Inheritance Tax is 40% at the time of your death , normally £4,000 ( 40% ) would be payable in tax . |
| 23 | Enterprise Computer Holdings Plc fears it has been misunderstood : the company is keen to stress that Finance Director Les Kemp has the unhappy confusion over last year 's accounting figures under control ( CI No 2,162 ) but wants to know how accountants KPMG Peat Marwick managed not to sign the audit report for subsidiary Enterprise Computer Services ; apparently there was confusion at the time over the verification of certain bank loans ; all should be clear in the next report and the company says it expects to show a return to profit . |
| 24 | Assuming Mecdi to be right , that Molla Arab was Fahreddin Acemi 's at the Darulhadis , one would need to show further , of course , that Fahreddin Acemi was Mufti at the time of the association . |
| 25 | One is faced , then , with two conflicting views about the dating of the Muftilik of Abdulkerim : first , the view of the that he was Mufti in the time of Mehmed II , perhaps from 870/1465–6 onwards ; and second , the view of the writers connected with the later tradition , Mustakimzade half-excepted , that he was Mufti in the time of Bayezid II , more precisely , following Molla Gurani , from 893/1488 to Rajab 900/March-April 1495 . |
| 26 | One is faced , then , with two conflicting views about the dating of the Muftilik of Abdulkerim : first , the view of the that he was Mufti in the time of Mehmed II , perhaps from 870/1465–6 onwards ; and second , the view of the writers connected with the later tradition , Mustakimzade half-excepted , that he was Mufti in the time of Bayezid II , more precisely , following Molla Gurani , from 893/1488 to Rajab 900/March-April 1495 . |
| 27 | ‘ It was daylight at the time and the curtains in your brother 's office were drawn . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Major , who was Chancellor at the time the embargo was imposed , turned on his critics , telling Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown he had ‘ misunderstood the position ’ . |
| 29 | In the Surrey part of Windsor Forest the verdict on 5 March 1300 was that ‘ the whole county of Surrey was forest in the time of Henry II , who died seized of it . ’ |
| 30 | It was dusk by the time she checked out of the Shelbourne ; night was approaching rapidly . |