Example sentences of "which [vb past] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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1 | There were two stern clocks on the walls — neither of which agreed with the time according to Rock Hardy — and a set of coloured prints showing dreary desert scenes . |
2 | It is important to note that the political party system in the Republic of Ireland is largely based on the divisions in the national-popular consciousness which occurred at the time of the Irish civil war . |
3 | Yet yesterday 's report on the Clapham crash , confirming the picture which emerged throughout the Hidden inquiry , makes an event which seemed at the time totally unexpected look almost inevitable . |
4 | The only evidence which seemed at the time to offer any reliable dating was that of the coins which were of sufficient interest to the nineteenth-century antiquarians for them to be recorded , although rarely in detail . |
5 | At least , that much Annie gathered from other discussions and the political writing which flourished at the time . |
6 | The accounts for the first year indicated quite clearly the recognition of the social divisions which existed at the time . |
7 | The educational regimes apparent in early asylums pay tribute to the humanitarian spirit which existed at the time . |
8 | Baroness Hooper 's letter stated that help with NHS charges for students were based on an individual assessment of ability to pay and on circumstances which existed at the time a claim was made . |
9 | Some of these animals were and are big : one species which existed around the time of the catastrophe was 15 m ( 50 ft ) long . |
10 | She subscribed to a sort of education-orientated noblesse oblige which prevailed at the time , and would organize plays , and patronize enthusiastically any local concert party or visiting production , especially of Shakespeare ; and she invited me to her poetry readings , where members of the circle read poems on a prepared subject , in turn . |
11 | She shakes her head at the memory of the anti-commercial ‘ hardcore ’ aesthetic which prevailed at the time . |