Example sentences of "the [noun prp] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may have left the Daltons at the time of their troubles . |
| 2 | He also moderated political conduct , mediating peace between Ecgfrith and Aethelred in 679 following the battle of the Trent at a time when Ecgfrith was otherwise honour-bound to pursue hostilities to avenge Aelfwine ( HE IV , 21 ) . |
| 3 | He worked for the KGB at the time and he knew everything because he was involved in the secret inquiry that was set up into the ‘ incident ’ , as he called it . |
| 4 | Trevor was working in the States at the time of this interview . |
| 5 | After marking by the tutor , the question and answer papers are returned to a moderator appointed by the Secretary of the NEC at the time of application who , in turn , returns them to the tutor . |
| 6 | Bank Assistants can feel aggrieved and betrayed that the Bank declared in the Labour Court that their claim was debarred by the National Pay Agreement , the P.E.S.P. At no time during the previous two years was the P.E.S.P. ever mentioned by the Bank . |
| 7 | In foreign policy the Communists also favoured co-operation with the USSR at a time when relations between the Soviet Union and the Western powers were rapidly breaking down . |
| 8 | This compared with the $100 per tonne prediction for the end of the century being made by the CEGB at the time of the 1983–5 Sizewell B Inquiry . |
| 9 | What is interesting about this disc is the way in which Padilla , presumably familiar with the polyphonic style of his peers , including that of Victoria , crossed the Atlantic at a time of considerable change in European music only to uphold and preserve the traditions of Spain 's musical heritage . |
| 10 | Reading Lucas 's article from this side of the Atlantic at a time when unemployment in Britain seems about to hit a post-war high , one is tempted to conclude that there may , after all , be a grain of truth in the mischievous quip attributed to Oscar Wilde : Britain and America are united by a common culture but separated by a common language . |
| 11 | None the less , given the pressures on the BEA at the time , it is perhaps understandable that in the early years speed ( which proved elusive ) and reliability ( which they achieved ) were given priority over efficiency and economy . |
| 12 | However , not long after , Grisewood resigned and Mrs Whitehouse later said that he was , to her mind , ‘ too sincere and too gentle a Christian to be at ease amongst the demolition men who frequented the BBC at the time ’ . |
| 13 | I had the Granada at the time . |
| 14 | The ISE at the time of writing is attempting to implement changes in the way in which shares are floated . |
| 15 | It is worth remembering that the UK at the time of this publication was already adrift of the best practice elsewhere , with fatality rates double those of the Netherlands for pedestrians and more than triple those of Sweden for children . |
| 16 | Failure to comply with the Act — which only covers agreements entered into under UK law or where one or both parties are in the UK at the time — can result in fines of up to £5,000 on summary conviction . |
| 17 | ‘ I was in the UK at the time , ’ Maxim reassured him . |
| 18 | There are conflicting theories regarding the methods of combat used by the Franks at the time of Charlemagne . |
| 19 | But none of these incidents could possibly have matched that witnessed at a masquerade organized by Lord Tylney at Wanstead House , Essex , in 1768 , as recorded by an Italian noblewoman staying with the Tylneys at the time . |
| 20 | Bert Millichip of West Brom was chairman of the FA at the time . |
| 21 | ‘ You do n't join the EMS at a time of turbulence in the foreign exchange markets . |
| 22 | The laconic Ernie Walker , President of the SFA at the time , urged future managers not to put Macari to any future discomfort . |
| 23 | The identity papers seized by the FBI at the time of Coleman 's arrest in May 1990 . |
| 24 | However , Friedman did not explicitly introduce rationality of expectations into the natural rate hypothesis , and indeed appeared to favour the use of an adaptive expectations model , at least for the US at the time he was writing . |
| 25 | However , Sir John Cockroft was in the USA at the time , did not attend the lecture and so was unable to get at first hand insights into what the Soviets had , and had not , done . |
| 26 | A former French translator for President Kim Il Sung , he was first secretary in the Congo at the time of his defection , and was welcomed by South Korea because of his position in the North Korean hierarchy . |
| 27 | There were no hard-porn videos available on the activities of The Fox at the time this new offender was committing his offence , only the soft-porn reporting of the popular newspapers , which were describing the atrocities with such vivid detail as they occurred . |
| 28 | Comparing the present offering to Antenor 's French furniture collection ( sold at Sotheby 's New York in 1986 for a total of over $8 million , a record for a single-owner sale of French furniture in the U.S. at the time ) , Millerand points out , ‘ Antenor Patiño made a number of gifts of French furniture to the Louvre and to Versailles , as well as to the museum in Lisbon . |
| 29 | In certain respects they resemble or recall the heads of Kota and Hongue reliquary figures from the French Congo , some of the most abstract and inventive of all African tribal sculptures , and which existed in a wide and varied selection in the collections of the Trocadero at the time of Picasso 's visit . |