Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] at the time " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | In a mood of increasing depression Johnson , a West Brom player at the time , rang home to Sutton Coldfield . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Exasperated with all this pussy-footing , and knowing of Mountbatten 's wishes that what he had said should be known , I saw to it that a transcript of the Suez programme reached my friend Bernard Levin at The Times , and he published the core of it in two long articles . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Derek , who was Catering Manager on board the flotel the MSV Tharos at the time , was directly involved on the night of the disaster . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A security man who worked at Balfour 's Croydon HQ at the time said : ‘ I know it did happen . ’ |
| 19 | They were appearing in pantomime at the Bristol Hippodrome at the time . |
| 20 | In the early '60s , Selmer 's ( who had the distinction of distributing both Fender and Gibson guitars at the time ) used to have a lot of their Fenders sprayed here , owing to the differing tastes of British guitarists back then — the Shads ’ influence , I would think . |
| 21 | The Celts were pressing on the Macedonian frontiers at the time of Philip 11 and of Alexander the Great . |
| 22 | As in the autumn of 1981 , it seemed to be losing its way , with doubts over government support for British Leyland , ministers attacked over repeated strikes by secondary school teachers , and criticisms also over Britain 's support for President Reagan at the time of bombing raids on Libya . |
| 23 | A doctor from the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital who treated Mr Hoad at the time said the spiral fracture of the arm was caused by a rotation force , a twisting of the arm . |
| 24 | The station at Stamford was built in a plain Tudor style and was described by the Stamford Mercury at the time as ‘ in an Elizabethan Style similar to Burghley House ’ . |
| 25 | This is the ‘ Harvest Festival ’ scene , which was apparently found pretty banal by the Dresden critics at the time of the première . |
| 26 | Table I shows the excellent preservation of left ventricular ejection fraction in the long term in the surviving patients : 11 of 14 patients performed more than 9 minutes of exercise with the standard Bruce protocol at the time of their most recent annual review ( 1991–2 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ Matthew Epstein was managing me at Harold Shaw at the time , ’ he recalls . |
| 28 | Mr Mummery at the time was a police dog trainer . |
| 29 | Unable to justify the privatisation of a natural monopoly on familiar grounds such as competition and consumer choice , the government chose instead to emphasise regulation , boasting that privatisation would separate the provider from the regulator — or , to use a phrase much quoted by Mr Howard at the time , the gamekeeper from the poacher . |
| 30 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |