Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the learning and practice of the Egyptians was absorbed by Greek physicians , one of the best known of whom is Dioscorides , an army doctor who lived during the time of Nero in the first century AD . |
| 2 | The evidence for this assumption seems in the end to be the fact that Taskopruzade uses for the first time in relation to Molla Fenari a distinctly official-sounding title which appears to encompass the entire Ottoman state , namely ; but it must be reiterated that there is no evidence in Taskopruzade 's account to suggest that this appointment occurred in the time of Murad II rather than earlier , perhaps in the time of Mehmed I or even of Bayezid I. |
| 3 | Quite simply , not only do we and they not share common objectives , but we do not even make similar appraisals of world events , as the President of France demonstrated at the time of the coup in Moscow , when he seemed willing to negotiate with the coup 's leaders . |
| 4 | In the case of purely generic goods , if the particular goods which the seller had in mind to supply had in fact perished at the time of the contract this would not make it impossible for him to perform the contract . |
| 5 | ‘ Whether or not they objected at the time of the planning application we ca n't say . ’ |
| 6 | Their adoption in Britain occurred at a time of high unemployment . |
| 7 | In the Netherlands , however , it appears that for much of the past 30 years , a substantial reduction in levels of imprisonment occurred with no greater rise in crime than occurred in Britain ; and that reduction occurred at a time of rising crime in Holland . |
| 8 | Certainly the fringe banking crisis of 1973–74 occurred at a time of a large inflow of new institutions into the market as a result of the perceived liberal market conditions brought about through competition and credit control . |
| 9 | It is important to note that the political party system in the Republic of Ireland is largely based on the divisions in the national-popular consciousness which occurred at the time of the Irish civil war . |
| 10 | The lead isotope data can be explained if the U/Pb ratios in the sources are comparable to those observed for the lavas and the U/Pb fractionation occurred at the time of formation of the local oceanic lithosphere . |
| 11 | E. F. Loftus and Burns interpreted these results as retrograde amnesia produced by mental shock , and suggested that the impairment occurred at the time of storage of the memory . |
| 12 | It is possible that this leakage was caused by minute perforations of the gall bladder allowing transudation of bile , that healed by the time of cholecystoscopy . |
| 13 | One hundred and one transient UOS relaxations occurred around the time of 60 ( 54% ) of the 112 common cavity episodes . |
| 14 | The release of Cicippio , who had been abducted by the RJO in September 1986 [ see p. 35023 ] , coincided with the payment by the USA to Iran of US$278,000,000 in compensation for Iranian weapons impounded at the time of the 1979 Iranian revolution . |
| 15 | Weakening British exports , as the incomes of the primary producing countries overseas began to fall , came at a time of a downturn in the US economy which greatly aggravated deflationary tendencies . |
| 16 | Second , demand overload and intractable and complicated problems came at a time of decreased government capacity , effectiveness , and authority . |
| 17 | It came at a time of growing interest among member countries of the European Communities ( EC ) in new sources for cheaper supplies of bananas , following the relaxation of the preferential access granted to certain African and Caribbean countries covered by the EC 's Lomé Convention agreement [ see pp. 37210-11 ] . |
| 18 | The attack , the most audacious IRA operation on the UK mainland since the 1984 Brighton bombing [ see p. 33365 ] , came at a time of heightened security because of threatened terrorist attacks in connection with the Gulf war . |
| 19 | The origins of this transformation may be traced back into the late 19th century but the upheaval finally came at the time of Vietnam , flower-power and the campus revolutions . |
| 20 | Fifteen li north of Tongjiang , at the edge of the T'ang 's great estate , were the ruins of an ancient Buddhist monastery that dated from the time of the great Sung dynasty . |
| 21 | It happened at the time of the National Junior Championships in Nottingham and we had n't seen the television that morning . |
| 22 | It seemed certain it happened at the time of manufacture . |
| 23 | From the point of the mus , point of view of the museum , people always think about museums as places where you find historical objects , well we 're now creating the history of the future , so that future generations will know about , er you know , what happened at the time of , of building the motorway . |
| 24 | The team specializes in work with the elderly , and consisted at the time of five full-time equivalent ( FTE ) qualified social workers . |
| 25 | I agree that the effect of Spitting Image 's caricature on Steel 's relationship with Owen was such that , as I commented at the time of the collapse of the Alliance , it was the only television programme that could claim to have brought down not just one but two political parties simultaneously . |
| 26 | He toyed with the time of Munich , the decisions and failures to decide that had made the world he lived in . |
| 27 | One day I had to go to the clinic and I lied about the time of the appointment so I could skip a suit inspection , so I had an hour to waste . |
| 28 | Graham finished in a time of 10hrs 07mins 40secs , not bad considering the terror canoe section , but this season he is convinced that he can knock as much as an hour off that effort with more intense training and kinder weather . |
| 29 | It must be remembered that what is described is , almost without exception , the church as it existed at the time of writing . |
| 30 | The amount of surplus ACT included in the claim must be capable of being determined by reference to circumstances that existed at the time of the claim ( see Proctor & Gamble Ltd v Taylerson ( 1990 ) STC 624 ) . |