Example sentences of "[unc] [noun pl] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm when i started fifteen years ago , it was an intake of about twenty five er lads at a time , we 're now down to about unfortunately eight or nine craft apprentices . |
| 2 | For more than 30 years Brooklands was the home of hundreds of races , the scene of many record attempts , and the testing ground for manufacturers who were restricted to the 20mph speed limit on Britain 's roads at the time . |
| 3 | I notice that Lautro 's rules at the time did not require Lautro to give their members , such as Norwich Union , the opportunity to make representations before serving an intervention notice . |
| 4 | To make such fraud more difficult a new electoral roll was to be compiled , new voter identification safeguards were to be produced , there was to be access to the electoral commission 's computers at the time of counting , and disputes were to be settled by an electoral court . |
| 5 | You get used to people 's misconceptions after a time . ’ |
| 6 | B.Butcher , the general secretary of one of the most stable and better run of the local seamen 's organisations of the time , made no bones about his own experience . |
| 7 | As a result he has here resolved many conundrums about Ferrier 's professional career , and where possible answered queries about recording dates — though even he can not clear up discrepancies about what appears in Ferrier 's diaries on recording dates and what is to be found in Decca 's schedules of the time . |
| 8 | Not tonight , because travelling always distorts one 's feelings for a time , but at your leisure , when you feel settled . |
| 9 | David Damiani 's memories of the time were those of a schoolboy in a safe land . |
| 10 | I do know that my sister is in the hands of the only person who can perform this highly skilled operation , and that he is someone who saw fit to increase his patient 's fears at a time when she most needed reassurance . |
| 11 | The Court of Session heard that in 1985 , Mr Gillespie had agreed to sell shares to the club 's owners of the time , John Lawrence ( Glasgow ) Ltd . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , ma'am , ’ the hotel-owner told me , ‘ I was one of Mr Rochester 's servants at the time , and I can tell you it was his mad wife who started the fire in the governess 's room . |
| 13 | Of Malcolm McLaren 's collaborators at the time of the Sex Pistols , Jamie Reid gets a mention for persuading him of the importance of situationism , and Vivienne Westwood for producing a t-shirt slogan proclaiming how boring Derek Jarman 's Jubilee was . |
| 14 | Alekseev — reflecting the Soviet Union 's interests at the time — asked about diplomatic relations , but Castro would say only that ‘ what is fundamental now is not diplomatic relations . |
| 15 | Davidson , who was probably the closest of Baldwin 's confidants at the time and who also had the advantage of being present at Aix , was equally muddled in his explanations . |
| 16 | The line should be gradually drawn through the handler 's hands until the time when the ferret comes into close contact with a rabbit . |
| 17 | He was replaced by Gerhard Hanekom , hitherto Agriculture , Water and Rural Development Minister ; former Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Anton von Wietersheim took over Hanekom 's portfolios at a time of national emergency as a result of the drought [ see p. 38855 ] . |
| 18 | It was one of 's pits at the time . |
| 19 | A brief tour of inspection of London 's streets at the time that the Hooligans were publicly christened will help us to see something of what these quiet streets were made of . |
| 20 | Staff also felt great unease about a major environment group cozying up to big business ; a significant minority of Probe 's employees at the time were opposed to promoting products from any corporation . |
| 21 | The subscription price will be struck by reference to the market value of the offeror 's shares at the time of the takeover . |
| 22 | There was a lot of interest in Harold Burns ' activities at the time and many of the older people remember him and his Flea . |
| 23 | Liverpool , who are being sued as Saunders ' employers at the time of the incident , have also received a letter from Elliott 's solicitors and are understood to have passed it on to their insurers . |
| 24 | This time the four definitive gricers ' bibles of the time come in one small , hardbacked ( and thus very easily pocketed ) volume with many pictures and full shed lists ( complete with the names of Loco Superintendents and Chief Mechanical Engineers ? ) which would have been important information for spotters of the time . |
| 25 | He had gone through all the Smiths ' names by the time he reached the yard , and it was there that Danny Waggett caught hold of him . |
| 26 | There 's a quotation here from one of the ladies ' magazines at the time : ‘ woman was given to man to be his better angel , to dissuade him from vice , to stimulate him to virtue , to make home delightful and life joyous , in the exercise of these gentle and holy charities , she fulfils her high vocation ’ — pretty inspiring stuff ! |
| 27 | Here , however , is perhaps the place to consider the Act as a whole , in the context of the historical background already described and the general trend of attention to consumers ' interests at the time . |
| 28 | And manager Ray McHale is to get a £50,000 boost for players ' wages at a time when most clubs are planning drastic cut-backs . |
| 29 | It had a depth and penetration which separated it from most other consultants ' reports of the time . |
| 30 | Civitas Dei dismayed many of Curtis ' admirers at the time of its publication , but such ideas seemed less ridiculous under the stress of war , when the usual urge was experienced to justify the ways of man to God . |