Example sentences of "of the time [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A correspondent of The Times thought it was ‘ like the first hearing of a great symphony ’ , and Harold Laski , never one to be outdone in either flattery or hyperbole , wrote to Baldwin that it was ‘ the greatest speech a Prime Minister has ever made ’ . |
| 2 | Another aspect of the times had made its debut . |
| 3 | Her every move had been followed by jaundiced and world-weary senior politicians ; she had noticed a gleam of lust in the good eye of a privy Councillor , and Peter Riddell of The Times had made a note of her name . |
| 4 | Peter Riddell of The Times had written a piece about the Young Conservatives . |
| 5 | I 'll bet if the offices of The Times got vandalised , we 'd hear about it , all right . ’ |
| 6 | As a September 1958 edition of The Times pointed out , Black people ‘ are charged with all kinds of misbehaviour , especially sexual ’ . |
| 7 | You and I and the editor of the Times Lit . |
| 8 | Signs of the times appeared in a number of different places . |
| 9 | William Turner , a botanist of the time remarked that " it restores natural heat , and comforts the vital spirits , and helps the memory , and quickens the senses " . |
| 10 | Butler 's role at Crystal Palace was thus largely a supportive one and he seldom gained much publicity , but fans of the time recognised him as a useful contributor to the Palace cause . |
| 11 | The overall effect was that the world 's largest and richest city of the time contained the world 's most extensive slums . |
| 12 | It had been reported by the colliery official and er the colliery manager of the time thought it was n't even important enough to actually stop men going in to that district to work . |
| 13 | There were several technical innovations but the spirit of the time made it likely that the man of the moment would be someone in whom technical boldness and artistic pretension would be sustained by the need to preach . |
| 14 | The magazines of the time carried article after article laying down the law of correct and essential dress in which to be seen on ocean crossings and cruises . |
| 15 | The new ‘ Queen Anne ’ manner of the time seemed to be a style that would permit greater freedom of planning and lacked the associations with religion evoked by neo-Gothic forms . |
| 16 | That nearly a quarter of the time observed these clients had no staff present is surprising and should cause managers to re-examine ward organization and staff morale . |
| 17 | On this occasion Mr David Butler will have an even finer collection of predictions to record in his book about the election than he did in 1970 , when almost every distinguished political correspondent of the time echoed Peter Jenkins of the Guardian in asking ‘ Why is Labour winning with such apparent ease ? ’ , just before Ted Heath won by a majority of 43 . |
| 18 | A glowing profile by a local journalist of the time said : ‘ There 's nothing of the ruthless businessman in him . |
| 19 | Likewise in physics pupils were offered ‘ a starvation course on the precise measurement of physical quantities … [ for , as an influential text of the time began ] ‘ Physics is essentially the science of measurements ’ ’ . |
| 20 | Dempsey 's manager Tex Rickard was , as another outstanding black heavyweight of the time recalled , ‘ determined to keep the title white ’ ( Gains , no date , p.54 ) . |
| 21 | The farthing was still a useful unit of currency and the coins of the time had a grace and beauty which have since disappeared . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The most detailed of these came from Wilshere , who said that most of the time had been taken up by the medical evidence — summarised with a wealth of detail ( which will not be repeated here ) . |
| 24 | The local government system of the time had been given some shape by the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 , but it was not until the end of the century that it acquired a structure that would enable it to take on the range of functions it has today . |
| 25 | He di n't really impress me , but — The Leeds team of the time had a great defence , I do n't think Best ever scored against Paul Reaney , who he regards as his most difficult opponent . |
| 26 | A comedian of the time described them in The Stage : |
| 27 | Membership , it was said , never at any point rose above thirty and much of the time remained closer to nine or ten . |
| 28 | Undoubtedly the risings were connected with each other in so far as the news of the initial outbreak in Essex seems to have sparked off further unrest in adjacent counties , and later in more remote parts , and it is certain that the general circumstances of the time created an atmosphere which was ripe for revolt , but the differences of aim among the different groups of rebels suggest that each had its own grievances which it hoped to right by force . |
| 29 | Musical opinions among the educated circles of the time tended towards a polarization . |
| 30 | Of the time devoted to Zambian languages , the ZBS allocated 23% to Bemba and 21% to Nyanja . |