Example sentences of "[noun sg] in times " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was n't brave or courageous — just totally unaware of fear in times of crisis . |
| 2 | In return for the continued friendship in times of want , and generous acts of hospitality always so readily extended towards the whites by these Indians , they now reap an abundant harvest of every species of villainy and insult . |
| 3 | Sir Edward said he considered the association helpful to Headley Down residents in that it acted as a safety valve in times of crisis . |
| 4 | Witte was particularly lavish with financial aid in times of crisis , and assisted in the formation of producer associations , thereby fostering the concentration of ownership in the hands of large banks and corporations . |
| 5 | It is the financial life-line in times of marital crisis and breakdown . |
| 6 | The great virtue or the part-time holding in times of industrial depression is that it leaves the unemployed with things they can do to help themselves . |
| 7 | They are supposed to crush politicial uprisings , act as a kind of home guard in times of war and to guard buildings . |
| 8 | Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea 24th June , £14.99 P.o.s. : mixed dumpbin with paperback Clarissa Oakes , poster , O'Brian newsletter Advertising : full-page ad in Times magazine Media coverage : feature profiles in Times , Independent |
| 9 | Like so many cash crops , sugar is not a genuinely useful product — it has no nutritional value and is of no benefit in times of hardship . |
| 10 | The annalistic tradition has few facts to relate ; a few purchases of corn in times of famine , and the offer to Delphi after the destruction of Veii . |
| 11 | Each may provide assistance in times of infirmity or sickness or in the provision of baby-sitting or other services . |
| 12 | The scope of their kinship networks is smaller , but just as significant because they provide help in times of hardship . |
| 13 | In order to provide the same sort of instant help and emotional support to staff as well as residents , it may be necessary to site a house supporting potentially disturbed people near to a hospital site with acute psychiatric admission wards , for although technology can link many homes to one central point , it can not provide the reassurance of instant personal help in times of emergency . |
| 14 | This was the cockpit , used for cock-fighting in times past . |
| 15 | Most sellers will not wish to contract out of the right to sub-contract , since this gives them a very necessary flexibility in times of high demand , or if their own facilities can not produce the required goods for some reason . |
| 16 | In peace-time the selection ratio , the ratio of applicants to available jobs is a key feature , there tends to be more testing in times of economic depression when jobs are scarce and also in post-war periods when there is extensive experience of using tests . |
| 17 | There was a lot of underlying violence in Rufus , and not all that underlying either , a lion-like aggression in times of stress that took the form of a whooping , destructive merriment . |
| 18 | Deliberate destruction of the environment in times of war should be declared a war crime and a Geneva Convention on the protection of nature in times of war should be drawn up as a matter of urgency . |
| 19 | Voices came from somewhere at the back — probably the kitchen : families seem to favour the kitchen as an assembly point in times of crisis . |
| 20 | In addition , a " Special Period in Times of Peace " plan had already been put into effect to cope with dwindling supplies from the Soviet Union and eastern Europe , and an " Option Zero " of extreme economic cutbacks and food rationing was in preparation for the time when Soviet oil shipments finally ceased . |
| 21 | Particularly in the more arid parts of Australia , female infanticide was practised to reduce the population in times of famine , and occasionally the baby was eaten . |
| 22 | The practices of infanticide and geronticide are culturally defined behaviour patterns designed to ensure the survival of the group in times of extreme food shortages . |
| 23 | A broad middle section of self-employed tradesmen formed the backbone of this urban society , but nearly 50 per cent of those who were taxed were dependent on their wages and were likely to be reduced to poverty in times of depression . |
| 24 | It had taken three cars to get the ten miles from the city to the airport ; Georgians get uncharacteristically ruthless about transport in times of war , when petrol is scarce . |
| 25 | In subsequent books the landscapes are less vivid and Dick 's intervention in times of stress seems less precisely motivated , though he still flies over troubled waters as his guardian , Count Jasper , supposes he always will . |
| 26 | We have perhaps learned one great lesson — that Socialism must be something of a religion to us before it can have any meaning in times of real stress . |
| 27 | Nevertheless naval power on a large scale meant a very heavy commitment of resources : the temptation to economize on the navy in times of financial stringency was correspondingly strong . |
| 28 | All respondents acknowledged they owed service in times of war ; rather less than half were obliged to provide regular castle-guard . |
| 29 | a former director of the CSIR 's Laboratory for Molecular and Cell Biology now at the University of Cape Town , interprets the allocation as an attempt by the government to rescue the CSIR in times of recession and a continuing decline in military contracts . |
| 30 | Is the Prime Minister aware that among right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House who understand the Government 's overall objectives , there is still a genuine fear that the outcome will be overstretch in peacetime and a dangerous shortage in times of tension ? |