Example sentences of "and [det] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As has been said , these are essential data for the story , and some of the time they seem to be confirmed . |
| 2 | This tendency to dichotomize policemen against the social reformer even led the ex-police liberal John Alderson uncharacteristically to describe the historian E. P. Thompson as being ‘ an unfair critic of the police ’ ( Public Office , Granada TV , 20 June 1980 ) ; and this at a time when Thompson ( 1980 ) had just pointed out that most policemen are ‘ ordinary blokes , and no society could do without them in dealing with many of its sordid realities ’ . |
| 3 | Probably not since the French Revolution had a foreign event so bitterly divided the British people , and this at a time when national unity was essential for our survival . |
| 4 | And this at a time when resistance is likely to be lowered . |
| 5 | It is estimated that he trebled it in real terms — and this at a time when the population was stagnant , His most important innovation was the poll-tax in place of the household tax , which the peasantry had been able partially to evade by merging households . |
| 6 | The poem which gives us the best insight into knightly and aristocratic life c. 1200 , L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( the story of William Marshal ) , rarely fails to tell us how much a particular horse was worth : it could be as much as forty , fifty or even a hundred livres — and this at a time when a serf could be bought for ten livres . |
| 7 | ( And this at a time when the Unionists could install their own government whenever they wished , through their control of both Houses . ) |
| 8 | This brings some benefits through musical cross-fertilisation between the cathedral and the wider community , but the cathedral does not always get the full benefit of one who is employed to do what is commonly regarded as a full-time job , and this at a time when the Church needs from its organists not only the highest musical expertise but also liturgical knowledge and a readiness to take some part in the running of the cathedral . |
| 9 | The President of the Law Society calculated in 1980 that , with some 44,000 solicitors in practice , the number of young people actively trying to qualify was 15,000 , and this at a time when work was stagnating . |
| 10 | Membership , it was said , never at any point rose above thirty and much of the time remained closer to nine or ten . |
| 11 | His friend does not make much response , and much of the time his eyes are closed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He presented ‘ … a very gloomy picture of adult education in this county … ’ : the number of classes had declined from thirty-five in 1937–38 to twenty-five in 1938- 39 and the number of enrolled students had fallen by some 30% , and all at a time when activity in other counties was increasing significantly . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The mail will come through to the secretary , and most of the time if it is n't a tape and is just a letter , the A&R person 's morning mail will include your gig information . |
| 17 | Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments , and most of the time we are ageless . |
| 18 | I never bothered much about Allie , and most of the time I forgot I even had a brother . |
| 19 | ‘ I just go in like a bull at a gate and most of the time it works . |
| 20 | You can slip two or more needles side by side and most of the time it is preferable to do so in order to get a more definite design effect . |
| 21 | We can still identify objects when they are blurred , which removes the higher spatial frequencies , and most of the time moving objects are moving neither very fast nor very slowly . |
| 22 | One of the few things about the penal system that almost everyone agrees on is that England and Wales have an alarmingly high ( and most of the time rapidly rising ) number of people in prison . |
| 23 | And most of the time we wo n't . |
| 24 | And most of the time they had been together , he had had far too much control . |
| 25 | Her own reservations , which she admitted to no one and most of the time not fully even to herself , concerned their attitude to women and the laity . |
| 26 | ‘ I never think about Kev 's age and most of the time with his vast experience he 's one step ahead of the strikers we face . |
| 27 | She could see whoever came and most of the time just stayed quietly swaying in the beech tree . |
| 28 | Thoughts of finding a job are out , unless on a flexible part-time basis , and most of the time between races is spent testing , hanging around garages and seeking out potential sponsors . |
| 29 | Now sheep are animals that we tend to regard as being pretty stupid and most of the time they 're timid creatures who will run away at the slightest sound or sight of something strange in their midst . |
| 30 | A field of cattle are normally quiet docile creatures and most of the time it 's fairly safe to walk through their midst and they will observe your passing with that quiet curiosity . |