Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father was under clad for the time of year but was sweating heavily . |
| 2 | These courses could not be done in a shorter time so they were normally arranged for a time of year when there was less pressure of work on those participating . |
| 3 | The convoy was halted for a time by protesters at Dalreoch , on the Dumbarton-Helensburgh road , again at Helensburgh and on the third occasion at the protest camp at the gates to the base . |
| 4 | Broadly the period 1951–87 can be divided into four parts : 1951–64 , a period of comparatively little social policy innovation which may be regarded as a time of consolidation or stagnation , according to one 's political viewpoint ; 1964–74 , a period of fairly intense policy change stimulated by both political parties , in which considerable difficulties were experienced in translating aspirations into practice ; 1974–78 , a period in which rapid inflation and government by the Labour party without a parliamentary majority administered a severe shock to the political and social system , and to all who believed that there was still a need for developments in social policy ; and 1979–87 , when much more explicitly anti-welfare state Conservative administrations reinforced that shock by deliberately treating inflation as more deserving of its attention than unemployment , attacking public services which were seen as inhibiting economic recovery and seeking ways to ‘ privatize ’ public services . |
| 5 | This means that the model of continuous and homogeneous time which Lévi-Strauss had also argued against can not here be regarded as the time of history . |
| 6 | Conversely youth is depicted as a time of vitality and good health . |
| 7 | Elsewhere in the country , one polling station in the south was occupied for a time by Khmer Rouge troops , who eventually stole a UN car and left . |
| 8 | Through Hoskyns he had come for the time under the influence of the leader of anti-rational European theology , Karl Barth , who at this moment was back in Basle after being expelled from Germany by the Nazis . |
| 9 | In Rockingham and Whittlewood they appear to have been discontinued after the time of Charles I , and in 1789 the Rt . |
| 10 | He watched me , smiling but sharp , and for some reason — for no reason — I was reminded of a time at school when I had tried to make one friend betray another , and failed . |
| 11 | Buchanan 's Triangles clubmate Mark Tosh pushed hard to try and catch him on the five-mile run but the Derry man won in a time of 1.28.52 . |
| 12 | Are you so trapped in a time of royalty and titles that you ca n't envisage a world in which a woman has obligations ? ’ |
| 13 | Although he was alleged to have made huge profits from drug trafficking , Noriega 's bank accounts had been frozen since the time of his arrest . |
| 14 | In addition , the physician made a personal assessment as to whether or not the patient seemed to be psychologically stressed at the time of the visit ; the physician 's evaluation of the patient 's status was recorded as ‘ stressed ’ or ‘ unstressed ’ . |
| 15 | The principal offence , located at the time of field work in the Rivers ( Prevention of Pollution ) Act 1951 , s.2 , is committed if a person ‘ causes or knowingly permits to enter a stream any poisonous , noxious or polluting matter … |
| 16 | Ife , a city to the west of the River Niger and , according to Yoruba tradition , the centre where the world was created , was occupied at the time of Igbo Ukwu . |
| 17 | The last atrocity had been claimed at the time by the Ulster Freedom Fighters with the explanation that it was in retaliation for a bomb which the Provisional IRA had exploded in an army bus in England seven days earlier , killing twelve men , women and children . |
| 18 | All the nineteenth-century conventions of comedy pointed to the need for universality and in any case Chaplin 's own personal inclinations must have pulled him back from being sectionally committed at a time of class warfare . |
| 19 | The TVOR was not installed at the time of the accident . |
| 20 | Almost forgotten at the time of her death in 1975 , Madame Yevonde is now the deserving subject of a major retrospective organised by the National Portrait Gallery in conjunction with the Royal Photographic Society . |
| 21 | People will be interviewed at the time of taking a photograph and later after they have seen the results in order to ascertain just what they think they have ‘ captured ’ photographically . |
| 22 | Education is often the first to be squeezed at a time of cuts . |
| 23 | They have come at a time of unprecedented pressure on the government to speed up the introduction of a secure unit . |
| 24 | London Underground said last night the station was in the process of being evacuated at the time of the blast . |
| 25 | Because of the recession the public sector borrowing requirement ( PSBR ) will be high , and a figure of £28bn for 1992/93 was forecast at the time of the Budget in March . |
| 26 | But for those departments and individuals who received them , they have been vital and they have paid off in ways not expected at the time of the award . |
| 27 | ‘ It is not surprising therefore that here in Britain the recovery that nearly all forecasters expected at the time of the Budget in March has still not become established . |
| 28 | In some localities trouble had undoubtedly been expected at the time of the Bank Holiday , and it was reported in Lambeth police court that plainclothes men had been specially stationed for the purpose of dealing with cases of street ruffianism' . |
| 29 | Leyland 's own collection of oriental porcelain was dispersed at the time of his death and , apart from ten or so pieces , the shelves had remained empty until now . |
| 30 | I think if you do n't do that , you 'll very easily become over-influenced at the time by the fact that it is a crisis you 're dealing with . |