Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Many of those who stayed behind , especially the adherents of the Bogomil faith , accepted Islam , and their descendants form the nucleus of the Islamic community which embraced 37 per cent of the population of the republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina at the time of the 1981 census . |
| 3 | ( Once , taking the night train from London to Paris , I found myself in the locked sleeping compartment of a locked coach in a locked hold beneath the waterline on a cross-channel ferry ; I did n't think of Jonah at the time , but perhaps my panic was related to his . |
| 4 | Yes , but very restricted erm in other words if you look at the history of Kuwait for the time that we received or we got our independence , we had to start our nationalisation process as an independent country . |
| 5 | I believe erm the rulers of Kuwait at the time were very erm wise to make such treaty with the British for the protection of their country and the British respected the Kuwait autonomy at the time and this joint erm respect for each other I believe which gave rise to Kuwait to be what it is today . |
| 6 | Well , after all , we were in the middle of Scotland at the time . |
| 7 | The move may seem relatively trivial , but it is a telling comment on the declining position of the Church of England at a time when it least needs it . |
| 8 | It would not be surprising if Malcolm renewed his efforts c.1016-18 , considering the likely state of England at the time , and Cnut could well have acted against him once free to do so . |
| 9 | On March 23 a rally was held by 12 parties in central Niamey to protest against the MNSD 's unilateral choice of May as the time for a national conference . |
| 10 | The appearance of a Frithuric among the Middle Angles in the reign of Wulfhere 's successor , Aethelred , giving Bredun , probably Breedon on the Hill in Leicestershire , to the monastery of Peterborough in the time of Seaxwulf , Wynfrith 's successor as bishop of Lichfield , and Breedon 's connection with the monasteries of Bermondsey and Woking in Surrey , raises the intriguing possibility that Frithuwald was a Middle Angle intruded into Surrey by Wulfhere or at the very least that Frithuwald represented a ruling family in Surrey which had strong Middle Anglian connections . |
| 11 | Not a challenging or penetrating tour of enquiry , especially as the population of Aberdeen at the time must have been not less than twenty thousand . |
| 12 | Degenhart 's thesis met with the approval of Berenson at the time , but certain Italian art historians expressed hostility . |
| 13 | Speaking to the NATO Council the following day Havel recognized that " our country can not become a regular member of NATO for the time being " but called on NATO not to exclude permanently its democratic neighbours . |
| 14 | In a famous essay , H. J. Laski recorded that between 1832 and 1906 , out of 139 judges appointed , 80 were Members of the House of Commons at the time of their nomination and 11 others had been candidates for Parliament ; that , of the 80 , 63 were appointed by their own party while in office ; and 33 of them had been either Attorney-General or Solicitor-General . |
| 15 | Acid clearance time was measured in seconds as the interval from the time of instillation of HCl to the time the pH rose to 5 and stayed at or above that level for 60 seconds . |
| 16 | It was the respondents ' task to investigate ‘ what was the true financial position of Atlantic at the time of its acquisition and , if it was different from the way it was represented , how and why the truth was concealed : ’ Hoffmann J. [ 1991 ] B.C.C. 651 , 661 . |
| 17 | Jeremiah was God 's messenger to the people of Israel at a time of great national distress . |
| 18 | It would appear , for example , that either the statement in the that Molla Kestelli was kadi of Istanbul at the time of the death of Molla Ala'al-Din Ali b . |
| 19 | Bishop Goss of Liverpool at the time declared disgustedly that ‘ bishops who went to Rome as princes of the household to confer with their august Father will return like satraps dispatched to their provinces ’ . |
| 20 | This kind of paper , in use in the 25 years up to 1914 but revived in recent times , also places the EZRA POUND photographs in a time outside the present — suggesting , perhaps a vision of Venice in the time of the " Belle Epoque " when Pound first came to Europe as a young man and revolutionized poetics in the English language . |
| 21 | The Arabic , for example , is ambiguous in respect of whether it is the copy or the itself that Yusuf Bali — who held the kadilik of Bursa for a time in the 840s-wrote ; and , on the evidence of the signature alone , it seems entirely possible that at some point , perhaps during his kadilik , he made a copy of the which Molla Husrev subsequently attested to be a true copy . |
| 22 | Gregory makes this contemporary with the destruction of the Burgundian kingdom in 534 , but this is chronologically impossible , since Quintianus , who was bishop of Clermont at the time of the attack , died in c. 524 , and Theuderic seems to have died in 533 . |
| 23 | Thus Goldthorpe and Lockwood ( 1969 ) carried out their research among the manual workers of Luton at a time when academic opinion was saying that such people were beginning to take on middle-class characteristics . |
| 24 | The man who offered this piece of advice turned out to be Lord Cole , who was chairman of Unilever at the time and went on to be chairman of Rolls-Royce and several other major companies . |
| 25 | The fruits of performance are proprietary rights and choses in action assignable under statute even if the contract is personal ( Linden Gardens Trust Limited v Lenesta Sludge Disposals Ltd and St Martins Property Corporation Ltd and Another v Sir Robert McAlpine and Sons Ltd 57 BLR 57 , both cases have been joined and are being heard in an appeal to the House of Lords at the time of writing ) . |
| 26 | Such a situation existed in the Bosnian area of Yugoslavia around the time of the Second World War . |
| 27 | In spite of some bickering and belittling of Richardson at the time , it was later acknowledged that by far the greatest part of the credit for its successful completion belonged to him . |
| 28 | He studied at the University of Oxford at a time when Colet had thrown off the old method of scholastic teaching , which consisted of repeating the comments of previous interpreters of the Bible , and instead , in his lectures on St Paul 's Epistles , was explaining their historic background and expounding their spiritual truths . |
| 29 | The same was true of cattle in much of Europe at the time , and probably reflected neglected animal husbandry and a failure to breed selectively in a period when crop-growing was far more important than livestock . |
| 30 | Tax rates vary from one country to another : a prime example being VAT , which in some parts of Europe at the time of writing is over 20 per cent on certain items . |