Example sentences of "the time in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ special areas ’ legislation of the prewar national coalition government stemmed partly from a series of unsigned articles — ‘ Places without a Future ’ — which he wrote for The Times in 1934 . |
| 2 | Douglas Reed , for example , who resigned as Central European Correspondent of The Times in 1938 over his newspaper 's support for appeasement politics , and whose background and life history read like the classic facsimile of the alleged fascist , proved in practice to be a crusading anti-fascist . |
| 3 | Colonel Astor had bought The Times in 1922 specifically to keep it out of the clutches of Lloyd George , who was seeking a personal political base and had money to spend from his earlier sale of honours when Prime Minister . |
| 4 | During this period he also led the British expedition to observe the transit of Venus in Hawaii ( 1874 ) , travelled in Siberia and the Gobi desert , and reported the Russo-Turkish war for The Times in 1877 . |
| 5 | We do n't know the times in that ice rink , do we Charlotte ? |
| 6 | Steel-Maitland wrote to The Times in 1913 to accuse the Liberals of corrupt practices at the Wick Burghs by-election , and Sanders noted that at Taunton they had given away half-crowns wrapped in Liberal leaflets ; both contests went against the trend , so there may be some truth in the allegations . |
| 7 | ‘ The present gaols are really beautiful penal toys ’ , wrote a complaining correspondent to The Times in 1863 , ‘ the perfection of lodging-houses-for-single-men architecture … in a better situation Pentonville would sell well as ‘ chambers ’ ’ for Bank clerks and MPs of limited income' . |
| 8 | But I grant you that I 'm behind the times in some ways . |
| 9 | The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were proved to be a forgery by The Times in 1921 and this went some way to defuse the growth of anti-semitic tendencies within the wider political culture . |
| 10 | Mechanised steam-powered presses , beginning with The Times in 1814 , contributed to the expansion of newspaper printing in the 1820s and 1830s and had spread to book printing by the 1850s . |
| 11 | Our quotations from the 1790s and from the Times in 1880 ( see chapter 3 ) indicate that the feeling is at least two hundred years old . |
| 12 | It was Litvinov 's open letter to the Western press , published in the UK newspaper The Times in 1968 , which brought to public attention the censorship situation then in the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | Watches that tell the time in 18 different languages , make toast and have so many knobs and dials that the clock face is completely obscured . |
| 14 | Erm I I 'm speaking from recollection sir at having looked into this in the context of planning appeal which is now a little while ago , but it did strike me at the time that er there was a definite feeling that the agricultural issue was very strong protection of ag agricultural land throughout was a strong issue up to er the mid nineteen eighties and certainly was up to the time in late seventy nine early nineteen eighty and er therefore there was a feeling that Policy E three simply er was supplementary to those other policies . |
| 15 | It must be remembered , too , that plants which contain medicinally active substances often do not contain them all the time in all their parts . |
| 16 | Sailing Representatives are on the spot all the time in all resorts . |
| 17 | Major movies are being made all the time in other countries , particularly in Australia and Britain , so I 'm not in any race to get to Hollywood . |
| 18 | Drugs are used all the time in contemporary society . |
| 19 | I 've got a feeling that the Author is waiting all the time in that house in the woods for His own character to turn up . ’ |
| 20 | has the time in that division has to put in |
| 21 | Many graduates proceed to research posts in universities , often working much of the time in international laboratories , such as CERN in Geneva . |
| 22 | Oh there 's a char , there 's a lovely char here , these lovely chars er actually spend most of the time in big cold lakes and they 're a , they 're a population in they normally respond in December from about December the second to the fifteenth and they 've probably been isolated since fourteen thousand years ago , with that every population has gone slightly different to , to the next one . |
| 23 | In the Calder Valley district , the Yorkshire Water Authority 's data showed the EC limits were met less than half the time in 1988 . |
| 24 | Do you really think the wife of a man like Julius should slop around all the time in old jeans and dirty sweatshirts ? ’ |
| 25 | We were thinking about coffee at the time in particular , and quite a few of the people wanted to know that . |
| 26 | You had to go through all the misery and raise it with the danger of leaks all the time in some of the central international establishments in America . |
| 27 | After all , it happens all the time in these old houses . ’ |
| 28 | You learn all the time in this game . |
| 29 | REM sleep can be identified with active sleep in the neonate , who spends about half the time in this state . |
| 30 | Conservative Members have had only a fraction of the time in this debate . |