Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In East Africa a gracile and a robust form of man–ape seem to have coincided and overlapped ecologically for a time — perhaps in a manner comparable to chimpanzees and gorillas in certain areas of their ranges today . |
| 2 | But the study was carried out at a time of economic expansion and three out of four of the firms had experienced growth in the year prior to the study . |
| 3 | Official attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reform and strengthen the police duties of headmen were carried out at a time when the overall influence of headmen was on the wane . |
| 4 | In the latter case , the higher-level program is translated as a whole into a lower-level program as a whole , and that process is carried out at a time before and separate from the time when the ( compiled ) program runs . |
| 5 | His kidnapping was carried out at a time of great international tension , occurring only two days after US aircraft had conducted bombing raids on targets in Libya . |
| 6 | erm employed people have a regular activity erm on a daily basis , and that activity is carried out with a time structure , so that the hours of the day are different from each other , the days of the week are marked out as being different from each other , the weeks are marked out by being different from each other as well , and also you 're situated in time in a different way — you 're on some sort of career , you can see some way in which your life is progressing . |
| 7 | These three jobs are carried out within a time dimension . |
| 8 | The enemy artillery had opened up , lobbing heated roundshot on to the ice , smashing it into a multitude of floes , upon which men perched perilously for a time before toppling off into the lake . |
| 9 | There are indications that the mill was turned over for a time for saw milling , and possibly even cider production . |
| 10 | Dunvegan was the headquarters of the clan Macleod ; the old castle , a ruin in Johnson 's time , dated back to a time of Viking rule . |
| 11 | Nylon yarn was made there for a time along with Cellophane packaging film , carpets and circular knitted fabrics . |
| 12 | Press restrictions were imposed ( but quickly lifted ) and the weekly current affairs magazine Caretas was closed down for a time , commentators thereby inferring that the chief target of the coup was APRA . |
| 13 | The emancipation of the serfs had been drawn up at a time when most of the tsar 's principal advisers belonged to the age of Nicholas I. Within a year of the promulgation of the statutes , most of the chief posts in the empire were held by people whose sympathy with the new social order was greater than that of the emancipators . |
| 14 | It 's almost as if Hook Norton Brewery were locked away in a time warp ; even in the heart of the brewery , the steam engine which runs it is still there . |
| 15 | Young Philip was employed there for a time before going abroad , taking over during his father 's trips into the country where some landowners Sought his practical advice , particularly with regard to establishing plantations of hitherto unknown trees from abroad . |
| 16 | This collection has been brought together at a time when the Banjara people are gravitating towards the cities relinquishing their nomadic life and abandoning their dynamic textile art . |
| 17 | They can only be set aside for a time . |
| 18 | Brought up at a time when military aircraft would have seemed a fantasy , he later became an expert on one of the most complicated of signal functions , air-land co-operation . |
| 19 | The time of the execution is also altered , being brought back to a time traditionally associated with " dawn " executions . |
| 20 | The forces of Chaos are driven back for a time and a fragile peace descends on Ulthuan . |
| 21 | In her latest novel , Jazz , Toni Morrison has dipped back into a time before cross-over , when African-American music was all-black , in her quest for a uniquely black literary language . |
| 22 | The project is first laid out on a time base and the job completion dates transferred to the horizontal scale representing planned time . |
| 23 | The project is first laid out on a time base and the job completion dates transferred to the horizontal scale representing planned time . |
| 24 | " Did he die almost immediately , or is there any possibility that he could have walked about for a time , even locked the door and set the alarms ? " |
| 25 | ‘ Gone away for a time . ’ |
| 26 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |
| 27 | Four members of the press were allowed in at a time . |
| 28 | The 20mm and 40mm quick-firing guns here were in or on concrete emplacements , and although the crew of the outer guns were knocked out for a time the Germans got this battery firing again , and the searchlight on the Mole 's tip was never put out . |
| 29 | He was knocked out for a time . |
| 30 | I had once found two names scratched on one of the window-panes , ‘ perhaps two soldiers billeted here for a time at the beginning of the 1914 War … ’ ( or perhaps soldiers in hiding at the time of the Reformation ? ) |