Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the castle he ruled the lake , more as pirate than governor , choosing just the right moment to sell the fortress to the Milanese during the time of the Spanish-French war . |
| 2 | There is a cross in the churchyard which is said to have been brought from Kilham at the time of the plague which decimated that village . |
| 3 | King was a minor poet and staunch Royalist ; this led to his flight from Chichester at the time of the Cromwellian bombardment of the city . |
| 4 | Trevor was working in the States at the time of this interview . |
| 5 | Many of those who stayed behind , especially the adherents of the Bogomil faith , accepted Islam , and their descendants form the nucleus of the Islamic community which embraced 37 per cent of the population of the republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina at the time of the 1981 census . |
| 6 | It is possible that Leapor was employed at Weston at the time of Arthur Barnardiston 's death . |
| 7 | The Smallholders ' Party was the largest political party in Hungary at the time of its dissolution in 1948 . |
| 8 | At one time it was feared that the highly-rated midfielder , who attracted an unsuccessful £1.3m bid from Crystal Palace at the time of the Marco Gabbiadini transfer in September , would need an operation , but he has managed to recover thanks to special exercises under the close supervision of club physiotherapist Steve Smelt . |
| 9 | His parents had settled in East Dulwich at the time of his registration for Battersea Polytechnic , Michael Joyce having by then cut his losses in building or ‘ architecture ’ and opened his grocer 's shop in this prosperous middle-class suburb . |
| 10 | The book 's chief interest lies in the fact that Caroline Capel was a sister of the 1st Marquess of Anglesey and that she and her family , for financial reasons , were living in Brussels at the time of Waterloo . |
| 11 | After marking by the tutor , the question and answer papers are returned to a moderator appointed by the Secretary of the NEC at the time of application who , in turn , returns them to the tutor . |
| 12 | At present , there is little to suggest continued occupation at Ilchester by the time of full Saxon penetration in the seventh century . |
| 13 | According to the sixth-century chronicler Gildas , there were ‘ Christians ’ in England during the time of the Emperor Tiberius , who died in A.D. 37 . |
| 14 | Of the many explanations for the collapse in the ninth century after such intensive cultivation without metals for 6–16 centuries , the most plausible is that it resulted from sustained failures of maize due to a leafhopper-borne virus , maize mosaic virus , which may have originated in northern South America at roughly the same time as maize was brought to the Caribbean by the Arawak about the time of Christ . |
| 15 | And then we were in Ireland during the time of what they used to call ‘ the troubles ’ . |
| 16 | There is some evidence that Oswald , while an exile , may have fought in Ireland — according to one story in the retinue of the Uí Néill king of Tara — and Moliant Cadwallon refers obliquely to Cadwallon 's sojourn in Ireland during the time of Eadwine 's attack on Gwynedd . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , over at the Spedale degli Innocenti , also from 8 April , you can see ‘ L'Architettura dell'età del Magnifico a Firenze e nel territorio toscano ’ ( Architecture in Florence and Tuscany in the time of Lorenzo the Magnificent ) . |
| 18 | The appearance of a Frithuric among the Middle Angles in the reign of Wulfhere 's successor , Aethelred , giving Bredun , probably Breedon on the Hill in Leicestershire , to the monastery of Peterborough in the time of Seaxwulf , Wynfrith 's successor as bishop of Lichfield , and Breedon 's connection with the monasteries of Bermondsey and Woking in Surrey , raises the intriguing possibility that Frithuwald was a Middle Angle intruded into Surrey by Wulfhere or at the very least that Frithuwald represented a ruling family in Surrey which had strong Middle Anglian connections . |
| 19 | Another important declaration was made in 1328 , when the Treaty of Northampton temporarily ended Scottish invasions of northern England in the time of Edward III . |
| 20 | Sculpture at Athens in the time of the Persian wars |
| 21 | There entered her mind a memory of the feast day of the Madonna della Bruna ; it fell in July in the time of the fierce lion sun , as they called it in the hills , and yet the shrine attracted crowds from all Ninfania and all around . |
| 22 | medical man with a very aristocratic practice who attends Mrs Dombey at the time of Paul 's birth . |
| 23 | It was the skull of an African servant who had been brought to England at the time of the Slave Trade . |
| 24 | When God appeared to Moses at the time of the burning bush , Moses was told , |
| 25 | This is not to say that James II ( or VII as he was in his northern Kingdom ) was any more popular in Scotland at the time of the Revolution than he had been in England . |
| 26 | The court has heard that she was arrested after police found out that one of the men she named appeared to be in Scotland at the time of the alleged incident . |
| 27 | He embarked soon after on his long verse-tragedy Osorio , a story ‘ romantic & wild & somewhat terrible ’ , which he set in Spain at the time of the Inquisition , but which was to draw , at least to a small extent , on his Quantock and Exmoor wanderings of the next few months . |
| 28 | Brooke was employed in Manchester , and then in Ireland at the time of the rebellion . |
| 29 | Pte Macaulay had served with the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment for 15 months , and had just completed six months of his tour of duty in Northern Ireland at the time of his death . |
| 30 | The story of The Way To The Lantern is inspirational and tells of an actor called Robert during the time of the French Revolution who , by assuming different personae , evades the guillotine . |