Example sentences of "and [adj] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was very annoyed and upset at the time because there were other girls of my age in the dale and they could go and I could not . |
| 2 | Many women feel fitter and healthier during the time in which a baby is carried than at any other time and a number of tendencies towards minor illness vanish during the period . |
| 3 | One man who emerged from the tour with much credit was Alan Smith , the manager , who had been diplomacy personified during the political crisis and sensitive and supportive at the time of Barrington 's death . |
| 4 | The informants contacted during the snowball sampling procedure were aged between 18 and 32 at the time of interview . |
| 5 | He had been unemployed and depressed at the time of the theft , and had since started attending college and returned to live with his mother . |
| 6 | ‘ Tradition also means getting massacred every time the Cossacks get restless , and catching cholera and girls married and pregnant from the time they 're fifteen , and a whole bundle of medieval superstitions , and no plumbing , and women doing all the dirty work as usual . |
| 7 | I was young and foolish at the time , |
| 8 | As has been said , these are essential data for the story , and some of the time they seem to be confirmed . |
| 9 | The secrets of the period , hidden and unknowable at the time , have been revealed in the historical conclusion of 1914 . |
| 10 | At 18 , Couples hooked his drive out of bounds , one of the few mistakes he made on a day that turned cold and windy by the time the five-hour 25-minute round had ended . |
| 11 | At the time of the preliminary naval bombardment the Turks had only two divisions at the Dardanelles ; these had been raised to four when the naval attack began and six by the time Hamilton made his first landings , giving the defenders a numerical superiority of six to five divisions . |
| 12 | Membership , it was said , never at any point rose above thirty and much of the time remained closer to nine or ten . |
| 13 | His friend does not make much response , and much of the time his eyes are closed . |
| 14 | The air remained unnaturally hot and humid for the time of the year , and the sun shone down again from the brightening sky . |
| 15 | Reasonableness is thus judged in the light of circumstances known and foreseeable at the time the contract was made . |
| 16 | Not knowing the area well , and conscious of the time of year , I did a survey walk with a friend . |
| 17 | Such views were both pervasive and unexceptional at the time . |
| 18 | At the other extreme is the stance taken on the MoD 's continuing tenure , which insists that it is not proper that the public continue to be excluded some of the time from all , and all of the time from some , of the finest coastal scenery in the British Isles . |
| 19 | It can be weekly , fortnightly , monthly , or just occasionally on request but quite often we are finding that a person who 's assessed as needing help weekly , but all that we have got is fortnightly , and all of the time there are clients waiting for us to up the amount of help that we 're giving to them and , very much , it needs to be when it benefits them , and when it fits in with their lives . |
| 20 | During the last quarter of the nineteenth century , the needs of the sick and disabled at the workhouse occupied more and more of the time and energies of the officers and the Board of Guardians to whom they were responsible . |
| 21 | ‘ Nice and heavy for the time of year . ’ |
| 22 | However , the Court of Appeal decided in Burton v Islington Health Authority [ 1992 ] 3 WLR 617 that at common law a child en ventre sa mρere and unborn at the time of the defendant 's negligence has a cause of action for injuries caused by that negligence . |
| 23 | This remark , which struck me as silly and offensive at the time , was to be recalled later . |
| 24 | If I had been older and wiser at the time , then I would have been sorely tempted to write back ( on Mother 's behalf ) something like this : ‘ My dear son , I must regretfully inform you , not with malice but with sorrow , that money is not easy to come by . |
| 25 | Albújar was reported to have been alone and unarmed at the time of the attack . |
| 26 | But in the twentieth century , and particular from the time of the depression , federal spending has increased enormously . |
| 27 | The offices were in a high building , one which might well have been neat and prosperous around the time that Dickens was labelling bottles in a boot-blacking warehouse ; now its main value lay in the soaring price of the land on which it stood . |
| 28 | The Maguire Seven were Anne Maguire and Patrick Maguire ; their sons Vincent Maguire and Patrick Joseph Maguire ( respectively 17 and 14 at the time of their sentencing ) ; Patrick 's brother-in-law Guiseppe Conlon ( Gerard Conlon 's father ) , who died in prison in 1980 ; Anne 's brother Sean Smyth ; and a family friend named Patrick O'Neill . |
| 29 | All were aged between twenty and thirty at the time of interview , and all were mothers . |
| 30 | The list is comprehensive and correct at the time of publication , but additions and deletions may occur from time to time . |