Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | NIHAT CILASUN : a 15-year-old boy , Nihat Cilasun was shot dead as he ran towards his home carrying bread , during a curfew announced after disturbances in the City of Cizre at the time of the Kurdish New Year ; |
| 2 | To do so requires a comparison of the market-makers actual portfolio of investments at the time of the disclosure of the inside information , with the portfolio he could have had in the absence of the inside trade . |
| 3 | Tickets may be booked in advance for the LAST EVENING PERFORMANCES , LATE NIGHTS and WEEKENDS on the basis of payment at the time of booking . |
| 4 | Thirdly the equipment and systems reliability of ‘ high-bay ’ warehouses can now achieve very high levels provided that maintenance is kept to an adequate standard ; availability of equipment for use is often in excess of 97% of the time work is available . |
| 5 | Miss C 's mother has never been told of the attack , because she was undergoing a series of operations at the time . |
| 6 | Questioned by the procurator-fiscal , Andrew Normand , British Rail 's director of operations at the time , Terence Worrall , admitted that had the sheriff 's deliberations been fully taken into account , additional safety procedures would have been introduced which would have prevented the Newton disaster . |
| 7 | Questioned by the procurator-fiscal , Andrew Normand , British Rail 's director of operations at the time , Terence Worrall , admitted that had the sheriff 's deliberations been fully taken into account , additional safety procedures would have been introduced which would have prevented the Newton accident . |
| 8 | Alan Rothwell , who played another post office clerk in the film and soon afterwards became known on TV as David Barlow in Coronation Street , remembered Crawford as ‘ a good mate and good fun ’ , adding , ‘ We were both on a sort of level at the time . |
| 9 | To derive this inequality , Bell made two assumptions : ( a ) the effects of a measurement at A do not affect the measurement at B and vice versa , and ( b ) all the variables describing the two particles are independent of the settings of the apparatus at A and B. Both seem very reasonable requirements , which indeed have played a central role in the development of physics since the time of Isaac Newton . |
| 10 | This added a couple of minutes to the time it took . |
| 11 | Careful explanations at this time could give them at least an inkling of the importance of the game , and some measure of preparation for the time when it will be no game , but a reality of great promise . |
| 12 | The Catholic Church 's position , which is based on its experience of the constant tradition of faith since the time of the apostles , is that ‘ the Church , in fidelity to the example of the Lord , does not consider herself authorised to admit women to priestly ordination ’ ( Introduction , declaration on the question of the admission of women to the ministerial priesthood , CDF 15 October 1976 ) . |
| 13 | We ended up in a basement flat in Earls Court , which sounds grotty but of course at the time that was wonderful — a basement flat in Earl 's Court was the thing ! ’ |
| 14 | Of these , the 30,000 who were still capable of resistance at the time of the ceasefire were to be allowed to return to Baghdad through the encircling allied forces although they were not to be permitted to take their remaining 700 or so tanks . |
| 15 | In the world of fiction from the time of Richardson ‘ home ’ is , in consequence , almost invariably located in the countryside , where the great house of the locality is the model for the lesser houses of other gentlefolk . |
| 16 | But his co-accused , Robert Henry ( 24 ) , of Rathmore Drive , Rathcoole , denies murdering Mr McTasney and possession of firearms at the time of the shooting . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't know if it 's of any help but — er — I made a couple of notes at the time . |
| 18 | The diagnosis of gonorrhoea in man can thus be confirmed in the majority of cases within the time it takes to stain and examine a slide of urethral discharge from the penis — a matter of some fifteen or twenty minutes . |
| 19 | The new styles marked a major change of direction at the time of the Civil Wars ; although they often impinged only indirectly on local farming life , the upheavals of the 1640s were enough to halt the great rebuilding almost entirely . |
| 20 | We had to fly all the way to the Danish coast or within sight of the Danish coast ; happily this was very low and the Germans did not appear to have our style of radar at the time . |
| 21 | Next I mention the only Member of Parliament at the time of writing to have resigned from a Government position as parliamentary private Secretary over the Maastricht issue , Roger Knapman , Member for Stroud . |
| 22 | He was an opposition member of parliament at the time . |
| 23 | As regards the numbering of their years , the Jews used the same era as the Seleucids of Syria from the time they came under their rule , in the second century BC , until the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in 70 AD . |
| 24 | It had seemed an expedient course of action at the time , as she 'd waited there in her kitchen , in the late afternoon dark , for Wakelate and his client to return to the house . |
| 25 | ‘ That has a lot to do with my state of mind at the time . |
| 26 | In some of these cases the defendant appeared mentally normal when examined by the doctor , but the doctor was none the less willing to infer from the circumstances that there had been abnormality of mind at the time of the killing , and to write a report which brought this within section 2 . |
| 27 | Mr Justice Vinelott , allowing the inspector 's appeal , said that the question of uncertainty in relation to s 247(8) could not be determined by reference to the inspector 's state of mind at the time when the assessment was made . |
| 28 | ‘ But the proof of Elvis 's state of mind at the time of his death is there in his own words . |
| 29 | We went to Edinburgh on our wedding tour and I thought it beautiful but I think that my state of mind at the time was such that I should have thought anywhere beautiful . |
| 30 | Other critical statements made about a plaintiff are irrelevant unless they shed light on the defendant 's state of mind at the time he wrote the article which gave rise to the action . |