Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may have left the Daltons at the time of their troubles . |
| 2 | From the castle he ruled the lake , more as pirate than governor , choosing just the right moment to sell the fortress to the Milanese during the time of the Spanish-French war . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Trevor was working in the States at the time of this interview . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Tyneside Shorthorns were very similar to the Ayrshire in 1790 and even as late as 1887 there was a Dutch breed in Drenthe which looked exactly like the Ayrshire of the time . |
| 8 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Of the many explanations for the collapse in the ninth century after such intensive cultivation without metals for 6–16 centuries , the most plausible is that it resulted from sustained failures of maize due to a leafhopper-borne virus , maize mosaic virus , which may have originated in northern South America at roughly the same time as maize was brought to the Caribbean by the Arawak about the time of Christ . |
| 11 | Nursing audit was already well-developed in the NHS by the time WFP was published , reflecting the prominent position nurses have taken in promoting quality assurance generally ( Dalley and Carr-Hill 1991 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Stoddard 's Engineering and Tuners will be well practised at crossing the Atlantic by the time these matches are established and running on the other side of ‘ the pond ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | I had the Granada at the time . |
| 20 | The ISE at the time of writing is attempting to implement changes in the way in which shares are floated . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ I was in the UK at the time , ’ Maxim reassured him . |
| 24 | He sees growth — about 25% year on year , he reckons — coming mainly from ‘ small add-on acquisitions ’ , but only in the UK for the time being . |
| 25 | Many influential Englishmen had seen the magnificent accommodation that Napoleon III was providing for his bureaucracy in the New Louvre and the new architecture that was arising in the Paris of the time . |
| 26 | There are conflicting theories regarding the methods of combat used by the Franks at the time of Charlemagne . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Bert Millichip of West Brom was chairman of the FA at the time . |
| 29 | ‘ You do n't join the EMS at a time of turbulence in the foreign exchange markets . |
| 30 | The laconic Ernie Walker , President of the SFA at the time , urged future managers not to put Macari to any future discomfort . |