Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It may be best for us ’ , McFarlane reported back at the time , ‘ to try to picture what it would be like if after nuclear attack , a surviving Tartar became Vice-President ; a recent grad student became Secretary of State ; and a bookie became the interlocutor for all discourse with foreign countries . ’ |
| 2 | The timeliness of the Minor award in these terms was noted by the head of history : The project came along at the time when we were thinking about cross-curricular developments anyway , and the school had been concerned about the particular pattern of study skills and how they could be extended and coordinated . |
| 3 | According to Health Ministry figures , four people had been killed and 93 injured up to the time of the miners ' arrival on the scene . |
| 4 | ( b ) If the producer can prove that the defect came about after the time of supply by him , this will provide a defence ( s. 4(1) ( d ) ) . |
| 5 | And er Oh and if he If the time of the the er tinkers that they came round , if they came round about the time of the the pig killing they would look for the piece of bacon . |
| 6 | Form criticism examines the way in which the traditions of Jesus were preserved and handed on in the time before the writing of the Gospels . |
| 7 | Thieves probably benefited from a certain popular tolerance which dated back to the time when individual thefts of cattle were a legitimate means of pursuing a dispute . |
| 8 | Reminds me of the joke we made up at the time . |
| 9 | One of the girls walked over to the time traveller and smiled a genuine welcoming grin . |
| 10 | This tied in with the time factor where the pressure to get things done at the end of the day could lead to dangerous short cuts and a consequent drop in efficiency . |
| 11 | Work began at seven in the morning and went on until the time , as the station-master put it , ‘ when the work is finished ’ , usually seven in the evening . |
| 12 | We knew for definite that it was only a two bedroomed flat and that is one of the reasons we went in at the time we did , hoping that everyb e every person in that flat would be asleep . |
| 13 | Women 's occupational ‘ choices ’ were limited and these five occupations predominated up to the time of World War II and well beyond it . |
| 14 | Held , allowing the appeal , that on its true construction section 9(4) of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 was a paramount provision which limited all other provisions of that Act and related back to the time of the events in respect of which evidence was sought rather than forward to the time when such evidence would be given ; that since all the evidence sought from the retired Crown servant related to matters which had come to his notice in his capacity as an officer or servant of the Crown , section 9(4) applied and the court had no jurisdiction to make the order for his examination ( post , p. 197F–G , H ) . |
| 15 | The logical crisis went back to the time when he first started to read philosophy as an undergraduate and related to his reading of the English Idealist philosophers , as well as to his return ( for the purposes of passing his exams , and later as a tutor ) to the English empiricists of the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | The idea of the Temple went back to the time of Moses when God commanded a tabernacle ( i.e. a tent ) to be built in which to keep the Ark of the Covenant . |
| 17 | Jean-Claude 's went back to the time when the region was awash with oceans of rye , Otto 's to the time when the Demoiselles Tatin were still alive . |
| 18 | She reached out for the time and found that she had over forty hours still to go before she met the contact again . |
| 19 | Knox , when he wrote his History of the Reformation in the 1560s , looked back to the time when ‘ all men esteemed the Governor to have been the most fervent Protestant that there was in all Europe ’ , so that although ‘ The Papists raged against the Governor ’ , his fame ‘ was spread in divers countries ’ . |
| 20 | Judge Alfredo Gustilo said in Manila Burton 's claim that he did not know the contraband was among his belongings was ‘ absurd ’ because customs police found four blocks of hashish hidden in the pair of shoes he had on at the time of his arrest . |
| 21 | As the Factory supremo Tony Wilson pointed out at the time , ‘ New Order are leading us into an age of passionate computer music ’ . |
| 22 | No one pointed out at the time that radio , like other media of mass communication , leaves the audience with the choice of looking elsewhere . |
| 23 | As Gandhi pointed out at the time , Munich was a victory for Hitler 's violence , not for pacifist protest . |
| 24 | Philip of Valois 's claim , however , had the virtues of clarity and logic , whereas Edward 's claim , as French lawyers pointed out at the time and French historians have not hesitated to remark since , rested on the unsatisfactory assumption that a woman could transmit a right which she could not exercise . |
| 25 | As environmentalists pointed out at the time of the Shetlands disaster , there is a degree of hypocrisy in expressing outrage at the spillage when such accidents are the price we seem prepared to pay for access to oil . |
| 26 | A disgraceful decision , as I pointed out at the time . ’ |