Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earliest mammals ( Eutheria ) , the insectivores , arose during the time that reptiles dominated the earth . |
| 2 | This argument is untenable as some of the most dramatic changes in behaviour by American hospitals occurred at the time that the prospective payment system was introduced , when only 10% of hospitals were private , for profit institutions , and there is considerable evidence that , especially for rural hospitals in the United States , the threat has indeed been to survival . |
| 3 | I believed at the time that I more or less grasped the metaphorical implications of this , but after I had put the phone down I found I was not as clear as I should have hoped to be about exactly what was required of me in concrete practical terms . |
| 4 | The way forward could only be through a measure of government intervention and inevitably it provoked at the time and in its later consequences , or lack of them , sharp controversy which did much to form the particular arguments reformers used to articulate their basic ideological assumptions . |
| 5 | While appreciating the sophistication and fluidity of de Gaulle 's conceptions , one can not overlook the extreme reactions they provoked at the time or the extensive and mostly critical academic literature that has grown up around them since then . |
| 6 | ‘ It seemed at the time that he might not have much need of intimacy . |
| 7 | It seemed at the time that meeting the Fracxillians could created some sort of major turning point in my career . |
| 8 | We all assumed that because of the , yeah the media pressure , at least talks would start , but I think possibly the management thought that because of this one-sided pressure , you know it seemed at the time that nothing nice was being said about the management , you know you can almost understand them being reluctant to go into a room and offering their side of the argument . |
| 9 | I assumed at the time that he was crying for the garden and what he 'd done to it . |
| 10 | But Mr Sharp predicted at the time that there would be continued violence before that brought results and is on record as believing an extra 700 officers were needed . |
| 11 | Nunn stated at the time that the Defense Department , with its large budget for research and development , would be well suited to respond " to a new and different threat to our national security — the destruction of our environment " . |
| 12 | She claimed at the time that colleagues had lied in a bid to get her fired because she was unpopular . |
| 13 | So she started to cry and all then and said she said she was sorry , and right enough she stuck to the time that we allow her to , she 's come in last night dead on the button . |
| 14 | Canon Atkinson , who traced the history of the Horngarth service , concluded that it originated about the time that St Hilda acquired land at Whitby — or Streonshalh as it then was — to found a monastery in AD 657 , 500 years before the appearance of the legend . |
| 15 | I coped at the time but now , five years on , I feel guilty and resentful about the whole affair . |
| 16 | ‘ Everyone was looking for reasons why he left us and no-one appreciated at the time that his health was suffering . |
| 17 | For the next half-hour , while everyone filtered back into the big hall , while the musicians struck up and people began to dance , she counted off the time until the bride and groom were scheduled to leave — and when she could leave herself . |
| 18 | If the Thamesdown one did n't , er , the officers for their own reasons have separated out this particular er , activity , erm , and I felt at the time that it was unreasonable to give a hundred percent funding to er , most C A B's but not to one . |
| 19 | ‘ But I knew at the time that I felt I had something to offer and that 's why I wanted to come back and be a manager again . |
| 20 | ‘ You approached Miss Needham , repeated Markby evenly , ‘ whether or not you knew at the time that was her name , and you asked her to sign . |
| 21 | But it 's not part of the the police case here , that they knew at the time that they entered the flat . |
| 22 | I looked at the time and saw that it was a new world record , so I thought that I , too , must have run fast . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought at the time that leaving John Mayall 's Bluesbreakers was a bit speculative , even though Peter , Mick ( Fleetwood ) and myself had already cut a couple of tracks within the Bluesbreakers band format , one of which was called Fleetwood Mac . |
| 24 | Certainly I thought at the time that Hunt would end up sponsored by Marlboro and driving a McLaren . |
| 25 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
| 26 | I must say I thought at the time that it was a pretty rough night to choose for a sentimental journey … |
| 27 | I thought at the time that her absent luncheon companion must have been a boorish character , and even the greatest friends of Randolph Churchill would find difficulty in defending him from this charge . |
| 28 | A defendant may state that he honestly thought at the time that the girl was above 16 and that he never thought to enquire , or that the girl was dressed up and wearing make-up . |
| 29 | ‘ Self-government ’ was thus conceived not as the inevitable prelude to letting India go , as it appeared at the time and has appeared since to eyes less clouded than Montagu 's by belief in the possibility of voluntary servitude , but as the natural means of keeping it . |
| 30 | to be honest because erm it 's and that I wo n't say that there 's a criticism of this particular project which I supported at the time but I think that in future we do need to plan our projects and and there are people in the in the town that are prepared to work , perhaps need a bit of organizing , we need to think about how that might happen , but we must n't first reaction go to professional or semiprofessional help . |