Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was little understanding at the time of how much work was required to develop high-quality screenplays . |
| 2 | At the same time two of the nine popularly elected representatives , Akilisi Pohive ( leader of the dissident pro-democracy movement ) and Viliami Fukofuka , were each reported by the Times of Tonga to have returned about 12,000 pa'anga to the Treasury on the grounds that overtime payment for members of the Assembly was immoral and increased the financial burden on the people . |
| 3 | Indeed , this became for a time a veritable obsession , giving rise in some academic circles to the idea of a whole new field of study , to be called ‘ psephology ’ , and in the lower reaches of political communication to the massive television coverage of national elections , in which precise calculations of ‘ swings ’ from one party to another and predictions of the eventual outcome of the electoral contest tended to overshadow any serious discussion of the substance of political conflicts . |
| 4 | All of this adds to the time involved in the process and certainly adds to the fees . |
| 5 | This occurred at a time when the militancy of rank-and-file officers increased . |
| 6 | This occurred at a time when the Government support in the opinion polls was at one of its lowest ebbs and seemed a desperate attempt to create an atmosphere in which opposition to the Poll Tax became synonymous with criminality . |
| 7 | This occurred at a time when the future of the Harwell Laboratory , AEA 's main research establishment , had come under review . |
| 8 | One has to ask whether different pressure groups within the Roman Church became equally hostile to Galileo , or whether , as some believed at the time , he was a victim of a Jesuit plot — of an act of revenge for insults he had meted out to prominent members of that order . |
| 9 | It was ironic that 1989 saw the centenary celebration of the Fabian Essays of Webb , Shaw , and their comrades ; this came at a time when Britain seemed in more complete reaction against the imperatives of Fabian rationalism than at any time for a century . |
| 10 | This came at a time when all Latin American countries had adopted policies of export-orientated growth , economic liberalization , financial deregulation and the dismantling of investment restrictions and trade barriers . |
| 11 | This came at a time when several years of large oil-revenue increases had created an exceptionally propitious atmosphere for reaching some kind of understanding . |
| 12 | Where there has been malicious tampering of a product , if this occurs before the time of supply by , for example , an employee of the manufacturer , the latter will be strictly liable . |
| 13 | But all this depends on the time you have left after giving your attention to the centre of the question . |
| 14 | This happened at a time when the ice had , so to speak , sucked up much of the sea . |
| 15 | This happened at the time when the long bow was finally succeeded by the musket and pike . |
| 16 | Well er to me it does n't quite ring true , it 's always been the boys ' ploughing match and it always will be as far as I 'm concerned but I think this happened at the time post war I ca n't say exactly which year , when the date was changed from easter time to August . |
| 17 | In years with more bees , there is clearly a different quality of pollination and this varies with the time in the season considered , but poorer quality pollination at other times is better than none , so that specialization with one pollinator per plant species is unlikely to evolve . |
| 18 | The gaunt picture on the back tells a story that few understood at the time : Marley was being eaten by cancer . |
| 19 | Then , there is the real possibility that a serious defeat for the government could result in a general election and , under the British system , the opposition , just as much as the government , would prefer this to happen at a time favourable to themselves . |
| 20 | Some said at the time that Leviathan had been written for Cromwell , and indeed Hobbes did say that it supported a ‘ conscientious obedience to the present government ’ of the Protectorate . |
| 21 | Before it , the talk in the High Court corridors was that Meehan would be acquitted for lack of evidence , but it was a view that few held by the time it was finished . |
| 22 | This comes at a time when some Western governments are questioning the standard hard-line attitude always taken by British and American leaders and certainly in West Germany there is a growing feeling towards more direct contact with Moscow and less reliance on America 's nuclear stockpile . |
| 23 | Paradoxically , this comes at a time when both the Conservative Government and the police themselves are much more cautious about the potential contribution of policing . |
| 24 | This comes at a time when staff contracts are changing . |
| 25 | This comes at a time when many advanced economies are undergoing profound structural change , with technological change , the growth in importance of the service sector and the growing internationalisation of production . |
| 26 | The damper song This comes from the time when old fires had dampers attached to control the fire . |
| 27 | I mean I 've certainly been very much helped in the time at Sussex when I 've been working part time by the men that I 've worked with |
| 28 | It all depends on the time I can find to prepare it . |
| 29 | Apparently they do a commemorative gig every year at the same pub where we were all based at the time . ’ |
| 30 | I was only a boy then , and it all began at the time my father owned the Admiral Benbow inn , at Black Hill Cove . |