Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] in the times " in BNC.
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1 | Then , as Michael McCarthy reported in The Times on 9 September 1989 , ‘ Europe 's biggest reservoir was closed to people and animals after the discovery of a possibly poisonous bloom of algae in the water . ’ |
2 | In 1968 Brian MacArthur suggested in The Times that of the two major educational developments under the Wilson government since 1964 the movement towards a national system of comprehensive education had received most attention : ‘ yet the development of the polytechnics , some of which will start with around 5000 students , is potentially the more revolutionary ’ . |
3 | Mr Lamont said in The Times that he was forced to leave a meeting with Jacques Delors in Brussels last Friday ‘ to answer questions about whether I had bought a bottle of wine in Paddington ’ . |
4 | As Frank Johnson commented in The Times , my appearance on the short walk between the Grand Hotel and the conference centre provoked uproar from the watching demonstrators . |
5 | As Professor S.F. Bush said in The Times ( 7 October 1991 ) , it was the commercial banks not the Bank of England which generated the credit explosion in 1987–89 : ‘ A central bank , whether independent or not , is an almost total irrelevance as far as inflation is concerned in a world dominated by thousands of different monetary agencies switching assets and liabilities across the world at the touch of a button . ’ |
6 | The following morning a photograph of a dejected-looking Lord Ferrers appeared in The Times , brows furrowed , mouth glum as a basset hound . |
7 | Philip French wrote in The Times , ‘ Once again , the considerable talent of Michael Crawford is squandered on feeble material , and he is excusably incapable of convincing us of the irresistible attraction of an insipid newcomer called Genevieve Gilles , who delivers her lines as if reading them from the small print of an oculist 's chart ( from which they might well have derived ) . |