Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Derek , who was Catering Manager on board the flotel the MSV Tharos at the time , was directly involved on the night of the disaster . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Iris elected to remain with Philippe Bonard for the time being and Jack undertook to drive her back when she was ready . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They were appearing in pantomime at the Bristol Hippodrome at the time . |
| 16 | The third chapel on the right is called the Crucifixion chapel because it contains a wooden crucifix carried in procession by San Carlo Borromeo during the time of the plague of 1576 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Matthew Epstein was managing me at Harold Shaw at the time , ’ he recalls . |
| 21 | Mr Mummery at the time was a police dog trainer . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | SYDNEY SCHANBERG , bottom right , was The New York Times 's correspondent in Phnom Penh at the time of its fall . |
| 25 | Shortly before Themistokles fell , Aeschylus ( in 472 ) produced a play , the Persians , which reminded the audience of how Themistokles had deceived King Xerxes at the time of the battle of Salamis . |
| 26 | On the other hand , the statement that Hocazade , as kadi of Istanbul , was amongst the group of ulema who met Ali Kuscu at the time of his arrival to settle permanently in the Ottoman lands , which event Babinger plausibly dates in the beginning of the spring of 1472 ( Shawwal 876 ) , may , if the facts stated are correct , permit a refinement of the dating of Molla Husrev 's departure from the kadilik , which would thus appear to have occurred between Rajab and Shawwal 876 . |
| 27 | Liebowitz and Horowitz ( 1968 ) suggested that what was happening in the United States at the time , was a process of merging of politics and social deviance such that they were becoming indistinguishable . |
| 28 | The courtheard Mr James had been arguing with his pregnant girlfriend 16 year old Jessie Barnes at the time . |
| 29 | medical man with a very aristocratic practice who attends Mrs Dombey at the time of Paul 's birth . |
| 30 | By mid-1989 the centre in British politics , split between the renamed ‘ Democrats ’ , the remaining Social Democrats , and ‘ green ’ environmentalists , seemed weaker than at any time since the leadership of the old Liberals by Jo Grimond at the time of ‘ Orpington man ’ in the early 1960s . |