Example sentences of "at [art] time [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rapid look at The Times newspaper for this Monday in April might give us just the slightest inkling of the minutiae of English life on a most ordinary of ordinary days : Dickens was completing David Copperfield ; Bass 's India Pale Ale could be had for 33s. per 18-gallon cask ; Hampshire Breakfast Bacon would cost you 7½d. by the half side , while Captain Reid 's ‘ Walls End ’ coal was 19s. a ton . |
| 2 | I laughed at the times people had used that sentence to me . |
| 3 | He read no papers beyond glancing at The Times headlines . |
| 4 | In this case , following the nemo dat principle , B is now the owner ; they were B's goods at the time A sold them to C and therefore A could not , without B 's authority , confer title upon C. This result would be , different , however , if C could show that C's contract with A fell within one of the exceptions to the nemo dat principle . |
| 5 | Licensed to preach whilst in Edinburgh , he was ordained by 1727 , and began his ministry as an assistant to his father , at the time minister of the Presbyterian meeting-house at Leather Lane , Hatton Garden , London . |
| 6 | There were at the time parallel proceedings against the mortgagees to preserve the plaintiff 's priority rights against the property by virtue of the caution entered at the Land Registry , and it was the mortgagees who requested an adjournment from 6 June 1991 to a later date . |
| 7 | Writing about this film thirty years later John Clellan Holmes recalled how as an adolescent he had been initiated into manhood by the momentary revelation of ‘ the soft , white trembling curve of Jean Harlow 's breast ’ , but even at the time Welford Beaton argued that it had succeeded at the box-office because more than any other picture we have had , it demonstrates that the true mission of the screen is to supply visual entertainment' . |
| 8 | At the time ASEAN was created in August 1967 Soviet officials had been anticipating an American attempt to construct a broader alliance to replace the decrepit SEATO . |
| 9 | According to his solicitor at the time Nicholas was ‘ bitterly disappointed with the verdict because he is not a violent man . ’ |
| 10 | At the time emergency services said it was miraculous that no one was more seriously injured . |
| 11 | In 1456–8 he was certainly in England , for he made over all his property to others by letters patent ; he was at the time verger to the collegiate chapel of St Stephen , Westminster . |
| 12 | These were the prevailing attitudes towards teaching Art in colleges and most schools at the time Basil , and later Rosemary Rocke , commenced their advisory work in the West Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 13 | BRACKEN HOUSE , THE former home of the Financial Times , came under threat at the time ministers were considering the introduction of the Thirty Year Rule on listing ( see page 149 ) , and probably played a major part in securing the greater protection for post-war buildings of excellence that SAVE had sought for so long . |
| 14 | In fact the Forge Foundation seems to be a respectable body , chaired at the time Kalb got money by a past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . |
| 15 | At the time Thornburgh denied the report and launched a controversial investigation into the source of the leak . |
| 16 | There can be little doubt that at the time Constantine took control of the Western empire , Christianity can have been the religion of only a minority , though perhaps not so tiny a minority as has sometimes been thought . |
| 17 | At the time Jeanne was fascinated by Foujita , the diminutive Japanese artist , who wore gold ear-rings to set off his owl-shaped face and a toga he had woven himself under the influence of Raymond Duncan 's Greek worship . |
| 18 | The rewards of this parliamentary victory were to come with the defeat of the French armies in 1870 , but at the time opponents of the Emperor saw only a means of forcing him further along the path of change . |
| 19 | At the time SGB Group had some 5,000 employees distributed in units ranging from one or two persons to several hundred . |
| 20 | The Airtours document asks why a £6.5 million contingent liability was not disclosed at the time Owners unveiled its preliminary results , and draws attention to its rival 's low distributable reserves as a possible reason . |
| 21 | At the time women 's social services had over seventy centres including hostels for the homeless and mentally ill , mother and baby homes , provision for the elderly , children 's homes and community homes for difficult teenagers . |
| 22 | First , at the time Jones had no idea what a storm was going to erupt about test-tube fusion and in notifying the DOE of his possible conflict of interest he was already being exceedingly conscientious and could , for example , have chosen instead to have remained an anonymous reviewer as far as the chemists were concerned . |
| 23 | At the time Peter had felt a condescending pity : a defect of her personality , no doubt exacerbated by the deprivations of war and the poverty of peace , had made an obsessive hoarder of her . |
| 24 | At the time Peter supposed she was either a connoisseur of funerals or a casual visitor who , finding herself in the middle of the funeral , had stayed because she was too embarrassed to leave . |
| 25 | In accordance with standing order A twelve C in force at the time Councillor notice of motion on sum of poll tax was referred to th by the Council on the twenty third of April 1991 to Policy and Resources Committee . |
| 26 | At the time Boulanger provided comfort albeit of a peculiar kind . |
| 27 | At the time Cook was employed as secretary to the South Midland Temperance Association , a cause which he embraced with zeal , believing that temperance could transform the lives of working people . |
| 28 | At the time Cook was concentrating on smaller , more select parties which left a gap in the market for larger tours . |
| 29 | At the time Mick Doyle was coach to a successful Leinster side and he believed he could do a better job than McBride . |
| 30 | At the time Barnard was working for the National Computing Centre , a quasi-governmental organisation in Manchester . |