Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This cloak was the principal relic of the west Frankish kings of Neustria , and wherever the Neustrian kings were , it went with them to adorn whatever building became for the time being the royal chapel . |
| 2 | E. F. Loftus and Burns interpreted these results as retrograde amnesia produced by mental shock , and suggested that the impairment occurred at the time of storage of the memory . |
| 3 | The case seemed at the time , and in retrospect , to be a win for IBM . |
| 4 | The millions of pounds this district has been able to secure through I D O is testimony to this , despite the rather luke warm support received at the time from the Labour group . |
| 5 | The panic receded for the time being . |
| 6 | Forbes thus had to wait for fifteen years or so before the coveted post came up ; during this time Jameson sometimes teetered but always recovered , and his courses and museum fell behind the times . |
| 7 | They believed that there had been a stage when there was no individual property ; that is , when no ownership continued beyond the time of use . |
| 8 | Yet , however serious the crisis seemed at the time , and for all the interest which it has subsequently generated , it was essentially a passing thunderstorm . |
| 9 | I want this whole this place tidied by the time I get back please ? |
| 10 | This rule now removes the doubt that often existed about the duration of a notice , when the period started at the time of submission to the council . |
| 11 | Gist of this intelligence ( with , of course , the utmost care to protect its source ) must have been conveyed to all regional commands in the United Kingdom , and from there filtered downward , for this moment coincided with the time when Leslie declared his willingness to perform almost any task in order to help repel invaders . |
| 12 | Two days after the debate , on 6th August , 1859 , a leader appeared in The Times which not only questioned Scott 's suitability for the appointment , but also the new attitude of the professional architect towards his client . |
| 13 | What is certain is that the two parts of the community continued to the time of Lanfranc 's death and beyond to face each other with unconcealed hostility . |
| 14 | Sterling said at the time , ‘ In my opinion , no one has yet caught the real spirit of Alice on the screen . |
| 15 | Later , I too escaped from school into the army , and the four years of war service seemed at the time , perfectly natural . |
| 16 | Publicity accelerated as the Times Beach residents scattered , and government technicians moved in late last year . |
| 17 | A friend said at the time : ‘ The break up was due to the pressures of a bad season . |
| 18 | The evidence for this assumption seems in the end to be the fact that Taskopruzade uses for the first time in relation to Molla Fenari a distinctly official-sounding title which appears to encompass the entire Ottoman state , namely ; but it must be reiterated that there is no evidence in Taskopruzade 's account to suggest that this appointment occurred in the time of Murad II rather than earlier , perhaps in the time of Mehmed I or even of Bayezid I. |
| 19 | The lead isotope data can be explained if the U/Pb ratios in the sources are comparable to those observed for the lavas and the U/Pb fractionation occurred at the time of formation of the local oceanic lithosphere . |
| 20 | In 1957 Macmillan inherited the leadership of an unpopular government , lagging behind Labour in the opinion polls , but the policies pursued over the years to 1959 managed eventually to retrieve the party 's position : Macmillan 's nuclear ‘ defence ’ policy seemed at the time a plausible way to reclaim the status of a world power on the cheap ; the formation of EFTA was negotiated ; Macmillan sacked the deflationary Chancellor Thorneycroft and substituted Heathcoat-Amory who instituted another convenient bout of pre-election tax cutting . |
| 21 | THE OBITUARY APPEARED in The Times the next day , Tuesday 11th December . |
| 22 | Pallister recalled : ‘ What some people in the game said at the time left a bad taste in my mouth . |
| 23 | Bissett 's difficulty lay in the time he had been allocated for his paper on the theoretical dimensions of the device . |
| 24 | But because the scandal broke at the time when one of the most popular pastimes in Yugoslavia was hunting for the scalps of former politicians , the moment the British press reported the involvement of Yugoslav diplomats , Tito 's family and the Yugoslav National Army , the silver became interesting . |
| 25 | He saw to it that notices of the birth appeared in The Times and the Telegraph within another twenty-four hours . |
| 26 | The old man pointed to The Times , which lay on his table with other journals . |
| 27 | Growth in the size of the legal profession occurred during the time when consumer movements were coming of age . |
| 28 | Controversy erupted at the time over alleged juggling with export restrictions by Culture Minister Jack Lang and allegations were made about collusion between private art dealing and the State . |
| 29 | I was also misled by work I had done on a simple model of the universe in which the collapsing phase looked like the time reverse of the expanding phase . |
| 30 | ‘ We do not agree with your slave morality , ’ the albino spoke to the time traveller . |