Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think negotiations involved your own department , Education and DoMIS at the time . |
| 2 | I was away with my mother and sister at the time , but my father was in the house . |
| 3 | Four patients had cholestasis and stricture at the time of the first diagnostic procedure . |
| 4 | Culley 's throat was dry and itchy by the time Ira Sanchez arrived . |
| 5 | Sydney Doran , 25 , was serving a sentence for robbery and theft at the time of the disturbance two years ago . |
| 6 | There is no small irony in this , as applications to purchase foreign technology in the first place will only be approved if the relevant Soviet machine building ministry can not produce something of the appropriate standard and quantity in the time required . |
| 7 | It was not so much the existence of war as the manner of fighting it which aroused the criticism of an increasingly outspoken body of persons who reflected the views of society in the growing vernacular literature and poetry of the time . |
| 8 | These can tell us a great deal about past environments and climate during the time of their accumulation , but there are many ways by which small mammal accumulations occur in the natural world . |
| 9 | If it did not spring out of contract it must , I apprehend , have arisen ( if at all ) from the relative situation and circumstances of the defendants and plaintiff at the time of the occurrence of the act of negligence . |
| 10 | Feeling battered in mind and body by the time Laura announced that she felt able to take a break — and how about an early lunch ? — Anita could do no more than give her a dumb nod of agreement . |
| 11 | So sometimes they-will not carry-out the work themselves , but rather drive the car to a specialist centre and charge for the time . |
| 12 | In connection with the Carrefour du développement ( Development Crossroads ) development aid scandal which came to light in mid-1986 the Commission d'instruction of the High Court on April 4 , 1990 , brought an end to investigations into the activities of Christian Nucci , the ( Socialist ) Minister-Delegate for Co-operation and Development at the time [ see pp. 35126 ; 36706 ] . |
| 13 | Another polyphosphate used is sodium hexametaphosphate the choice of which is often governed by availability and price at the time . |
| 14 | Mr Justice Mantell said that Paul Taylor , 27 , who was nearing the end of a three-and-a-half-year term for theft and assault at the time of the riot in April , 1990 , had taken part in some of the worst violence . |
| 15 | Children are excited by it ; it helps reinforce the children 's understanding of and commitment to the time shift , and in this case introduces the idea of a journal as part of the fiction , thereby leading into writing-in-role activities . ) |
| 16 | integrated as a continuous strand of interaction between tutor and student throughout the time of the module , with achievements being logged as and when evidence is gathered . |
| 17 | Consider , for example , Kloppenberg 's assessment of Sidney Webb : ‘ Although he passed through a Comtean phase that permanently altered his perspective from liberal individualism to organic collectivism , he had shed the positivist 's confidence in ultimate certainties as inconsistent with empiricism and democracy by the time he proclaimed himself a socialist in 1886 . ’ |
| 18 | But with 50pc remission and consideration of the time he spent on remand , he will be allowed out for weekends by next February . |
| 19 | Censorship reflects the social concerns and even fears of society and government at the time . |
| 20 | In the context of German Hellenism as a whole , what it meant was an ever-widening gulf between classics as a study and the creative art and life of the time . |
| 21 | Secure in business and society — he was a Merchant Adventurer , Muscovy merchant , and MP at the time of his marriage — Smith abandoned a conventional career in commerce when he took up the collectorship of the subsidy on imports at the port of London in 1558 . |
| 22 | Birth parents have to wait for adoptees to choose to contact them and may therefore experience feelings of desperation and anticipation around the time when the adoptee would be 18 years old . |
| 23 | The commons had shown themselves increasingly adept at procuring political concessions in return for grants of taxes , and although they were at their most effective when they enjoyed the support of at least some sections of the nobility , they had gained substantially in experience and cohesion by the time the crisis of 1340–1 arose . |
| 24 | It occasioned a great deal of comment and controversy at the time . |
| 25 | In Neugebauer 's view , it originated on purely practical grounds by continual observation and averaging of the time intervals between successive arrivals of the Nile flood at Heliopolis , the rising of the Nile being the main event in Egyptian life . |
| 26 | Sulgrave Manor , a perfect example of a small manor house and garden at the time of Shakespeare , was the home of the forebears of ‘ the Father of his Country ’ for over 120 years . |
| 27 | Sulgrave Manor is a superb example of a modest manor house and garden of the time of Shakespeare , and was home to the ancestors of George Washington . |
| 28 | Mr Burrows added that Smith , who had a previous conviction for indecent assault , claimed he was high on drink and ecstasy at the time , but denied having a knife . |
| 29 | Most people feel that the church ‘ knows about death ’ , and that someone is n't really treated with proper respect and dignity at the time of their funeral unless the church is present . |
| 30 | Then , at a release site , it could estimate the latitude by the height of the sun in the sky ( through an estimated arc ) and longitude by the time of day indicated by the sun at the release site relative to the time of day at home indicated by the pigeon 's internal clock . |