Example sentences of "[coord] that [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not at all necessary to say that I hoisted French colours , and therefore took the schooner unawares , or that at the time most of her men were on board of the Indiaman ; the great art in this world is , to know where to leave off , and in nothing more than when people take the pen in their hands . |
| 2 | The daring magnitude of this conception has since been obscured by its almost routine enactment in a series of African countries in the 1960s , but it should never be forgotten that India was the test case , and that at the time success in the execution of such a plan seemed far from assured : only a year before Mountbatten 's appointment the then viceroy , Lord Wavell , had been pressing on the Cabinet his ‘ Breakdown Plan ’ , which consisted simply of the phased evacuation of the British from India without any serious attempt to ensure that a viable , much less friendly , government was installed in their place . |
| 3 | Much of what he says about his money troubles and his illness is consistent with the evidence of extant records which show his salary was often in arrears , and that at the time he says he was ill his salary was being collected for him , indicating his absence from work . |
| 4 | At the emotional level , this can mean that the personal involvement is engaged ahead of the action , and that by the time the manipulation is actually taking effect , its originator can sit back and observe what she has set in motion . |
| 5 | Mr McTear , a telecommunications worker and former 60-a-day smoker , is suing for an unspecified sum of damages , arguing that when he started smoking in the 1960s there were no health warnings on packets and that by the time they appeared he was addicted . |
| 6 | Using annual-change figures Champion ( 1983 , 1987 ) showed that the main decentralization process peaked in the early 1970s , and that by the time of the 1981 census the former pattern had to some extent reasserted itself . |