Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also absent was the name of Karsten ‘ Cash ’ Mahlmann , the Stotler executive who was chairman of the CBoT and a member of the NFA board at the time of the crisis . |
| 2 | If this prophecy conveys anything of the sentiments of the Crowland community at the time , it must have been from congenial company hostile to Penda 's descendants that Aethelbald emerged to establish himself as king in Mercia , if not when Ceolred died ( ASC A , s.a. , 716 ) then certainly when an otherwise unknown Ceolwald , who may have succeeded Ceolred , died or was driven out . |
| 3 | It was built over twenty centuries ago on the orders of the Phoenix King of the time , Bel-Korhadris , the Scholar King . |
| 4 | In a mood of increasing depression Johnson , a West Brom player at the time , rang home to Sutton Coldfield . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In September 1922 I went to the Royal College of Music to study the piano under Harold Samuel ( the great Bach player of the time ) . |
| 7 | It is understandable , therefore , why they should also believe that this harsh and exploitative system a fact noted not just by Marxists but also by social reformers like Dickens , Rowntree , William Booth , the Webbs and Edwin Chadwick at the time would ultimately be questioned by the class of people who were at once both the most numerous and the most exploited by this mode of production . |
| 8 | He was working at ICI Billingham at the time and it had become habit , from his days as a London businessman , to wear a flower . |
| 9 | The Minoans were capable of producing a large surplus of olive oil which could have been exported ; some of the oil filling the store-rooms of the Knossos Labyrinth at the time of the 1380 BC fire may have been awaiting export . |
| 10 | Derek , who was Catering Manager on board the flotel the MSV Tharos at the time , was directly involved on the night of the disaster . |
| 11 | A similar decision had been made in respect of Uttar Pradesh by the time the poll date was announced in April [ see also above for Haryana ] . |
| 12 | This time he had informed him of two witnesses that he had brought to Nottingham , who had subsequently identified him as the man they had seen in Cross Street at the time of the murder . |
| 13 | Eliot had arrived in South Africa by the time The Cocktail Party opened in New York on 21 January 1950 , at the Henry Miller Theatre . |
| 14 | The Commonwealth leaders had , with difficulty , produced a common position on the lifting of sanctions against South Africa by the time the final communiqué came to be agreed on Oct. 21 . |
| 15 | Christian is Bunyan himself , leaving his wife and children , as he had done when he went to prison , to undertake the pilgrimage to everlasting life : the imagery is taken not only from the Bible but from the chapbooks and folktales which were sold by travelling hawkers in the Bedfordshire villages at the time . |
| 16 | BY a twist of fate , murder suspect Roderick Newall was being traced by Scotland Yard at the time ex-model Rachel Nickell was brutally killed on Wimbledon Common . |
| 17 | Robert referred to the recommendations and suggestions made by Alison Precious and Karen Jessop after the time they spent working on the reception desk and mentioned particularly the question of resiting the switchboard . |
| 18 | She had booked herself a bed at a YWCA hostel for the time being . |
| 19 | ‘ I felt a nine-match ban was a fair punishment for Davis , who was just breaking into the England squad at the time , and I suspect the FA may make an example of Ian as well . ’ |
| 20 | For many groups with such ‘ economies ’ , community and even intercommunity relations are conceived as properly being harmonious ones ( for example , see the following literature on South America : Santos 1986 on the Amuesha of Peru , Thomas 1982 on the Pemon of Venezuela , and Overing Kaplan 1975 on the contrast in ‘ peaceful ’ and ‘ bellicose ’ peoples of the Orinoco Basin at the time of the Conquest ) . |
| 21 | Dulcie Howes , who wrote that comment to me , had told the Cape Town critic Denis Hatfield at the time that John would never really be a dancer but that he had ‘ such a remarkable eye for balletic pattern , an imagination so vivid , and such an ear for music in relation to movement ’ that she was certain he would make a choreographer . |
| 22 | Iris elected to remain with Philippe Bonard for the time being and Jack undertook to drive her back when she was ready . |
| 23 | Detectives said they were anxious to trace a man who was near the junction of Whitehouse Loan and Thirlestane Road around the time of the attack at 2am on 6 February . |
| 24 | But what about the explanation from the Durham County ambulance service general manager that the Middleton-in-Teesdale ambulance was on its way to an emergency in Newton Aycliffe at the time ? |
| 25 | Durham Ambulance Service chiefs have said the single ambulance on duty at the town 's station was on an emergency call in Newton Aycliffe at the time . |
| 26 | Sheldon , though personally friendly , had never considered Taylor sound since the time when he opposed his appointment as a Fellow of All Souls . |
| 27 | We thanked the WO officials for the time and trouble they had taken to discuss all these issues with us . |
| 28 | ‘ Coleridge was at Bristol part of the time I was there , ’ he wrote in October . |
| 29 | A security man who worked at Balfour 's Croydon HQ at the time said : ‘ I know it did happen . ’ |
| 30 | They were appearing in pantomime at the Bristol Hippodrome at the time . |