Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eastern winds have brought what had been fair sport back to a normal level for the time of year . |
| 2 | We had encountered suggestions , in Prieuré de Sion sources , that certain of its early members , and of their offshoot , the Knights Templar , had established contact with certain Essene/Zadokite/Nazarean sects still in existence during the time of the Crusades , more than a thousand years after Jesus 's era . |
| 3 | Two recent attempts to invoke the EEC competition rules before the English courts were : Shearson Lehman 's attempt to prevent the London Metal Exchange fixing a closing-out price for tin contracts in existence as the time of the collapse of the tin market ; and Macarthy PLC 's attempt to obtain an injunction restraining a share allocation and discount scheme introduced by a pharmaceutical wholesaler , which it alleged distorted competition . |
| 4 | It is interesting to note in these three references the great gap between the time of the events referred to in the history , 1935 , and the books referred to , their publication dates being 1954 , 1955 and 1962 . |
| 5 | RUSHIE IN GEAR FOR THE TIME OF HIS LIFE |
| 6 | It seemed surprisingly hot in the carriage for the time of year . |
| 7 | Sceptics might feel that they betrayed a lack of informed thought on the issue of objectives ; and certainly a good deal of the time of the economic planners , the Treasury , the Ministry and the industry over the following decades was to be devoted to the search for more meaningful objectives and standards of performance to supplement these minimal statutory requirements . |
| 8 | The kanun , included in a late seventeenth-century anthology ( 1095/1684 ) , purports to reflect the practice of the time of Suleyman , but that the kanun in the form published by Uzuncarsili dates from Suleyman 's time must be rejected on the grounds both that many of the kadiliks mentioned did not attain mevleviyet status until the late sixteenth or seventeenth centuries and that two of them Kandiye ( Candia ) and Kamanice ( Kamenets-Podolskiy ) — did not come into Ottoman hands until 1080/ 1669 and 1083/1672 respectively . |
| 9 | It is for only about two days either side of the time of ovulation that fertilization and conception can take place . |
| 10 | Feeble recovery in the 1590s was cut short by the famines of 1601–03 and the prolonged disruption of the Time of Troubles . |
| 11 | Guthlac himself was of distinguished Mercian stock and a descendant of the Iclingas , the Mercian royal dynasty ( Vita Guthlaci , chs 1 , 2 ) , and formerly an exile in the time of Ceolred 's father , Aethelred , among the Britons ( Vita Guthlaci , ch. 34 ) . |
| 12 | In France trade associations dealt both with ‘ economic ’ and ‘ social ’ matters , although , as far as industry-wide relations with trade unions were concerned , organisation among employers remained greatly underdeveloped until well after World War I. At confederal level the central ( peak ) organisation , the CNPF , also combined the functions both of an employers ' and a trade association from the time of its establishment in 1919 , as did the Confindustria in Italy . |
| 13 | One may cite not only the case of the group already mentioned which felt itself to have been ill-treated at the hands of Civizade , but also the experience of Kadiri Celebi , the Mufti in the time of Suleyman , who spent nine years in great hardship as a before receiving an appointment , probably at the beginning of the second decade of the sixteenth century . |
| 14 | Next , according to Taskopruzade and Mecdi , Fahreddin Acemi taught in certain medreses and then became Mufti in the time of Murad II with a salary of 30 akce a day . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There seem in fact , however , to be two exceptions to this general rule , namely Molla Yegan , who almost certainly resigned the office , and Abdulkerim , who must either have resigned or been removed from it if the facts given in the he was appointed Mufti in the time of Mehmed II and died in the time of Bayezid II — are correct . |
| 18 | In order that unified Germany could enjoy full sovereignty from Oct. 3 the four allies signed a document in New York on Oct. 1 suspending their " rights and responsibilities with regard to Berlin and Germany as a whole with effect from the time of unification of Germany until the coming into force of the treaty " . |
| 19 | There was a wide diversity of theories about the nature of light from the time of the ancients up to Newton . |
| 20 | Is there really anything in common between what was understood by the term in the time of Plato and Pericles and the meaning or meanings given to it nearly two and a half thousand years later ? |
| 21 | The most important of the exhibitions staged to commemorate the fifth centenary of the death of Lorenzo de Medici is undoubtedly ‘ Il Disegno Fiorentino del tempo di Lorenzo il Magnifico ’ ( Florentine drawing in the time of Lorenzo the Magnificent ) at the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe at the Uffizi ( 8 April to 26 July ) . |
| 22 | A ban on certain political parties , which had been in force since the time of the 1980 military coup , was removed by Cabinet decree on July 3 . |
| 23 | The FBL 's compulsory insurance requirement is intended to reassure shippers and consignees that they will be adequately and reliably compensated in the event of delay or accidental loss , from the time the goods were ‘ taken in charge ’ by the freight forwarder to the time of their delivery to the named consignee . |
| 24 | Evidence of speed at the time of the offence can be established from the length of skid marks , the severity of any impact damage or from witnesses etc . |
| 25 | If their intention subsequently changes , that is irrelevant and the property will pass in accordance with their intention at the time of making the contract . |
| 26 | Large quantities of frozen food are nowadays delivered regularly to stores and the Service must ensure that the temperature of the stock at the time of delivery is correct before it goes into the cold store . |
| 27 | Following from this it was therefore axiomatic that knowledge of environment was time-dependent and the environmental perception at the time of decision-taking could be very significant . |
| 28 | Similarly , the use of the demonstrative of proximity " this ' can be seen as reflecting the speaker 's perception at the time of the narrated event , in which case the spatial deictic centre is temporarily shifted from the location of the I as speaker to that of the I as character in the story . |
| 29 | Alt and associates , in their study of the electorate at the time of the February 1974 election , argue that it is easy to exaggerate the extent to which voters are politically illiterate , unfamiliar with issues , and unable to identify the policy stands of the parties . |
| 30 | The whole manor at the time of Ring Edward was worth 25 pounds and afterwards 6 pounds . |