Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 Is the existence of a supportive relationship before an event the critical factor , or can new supportive relationships mobilised at the time of the event be effective ?
2 This means that it can not be ruled out that new supportive relationships established at the time of a crisis might also sometimes be beneficial .
3 Some remarks made at the time by the defence correspondent of a major London weekly are representative of a good deal of professional opinion expressed both then and since .
4 In these circumstances , any instructions to delete that information from the memory record can present a number of problems ; recalling precisely which information derives from the suspect source and tracing dependent inferences made at the time or later .
5 Even the early varieties developed in the time of Browning and Tennyson were nothing like the splendours of today , and one wonders what the genius of their poetic expressions would have made of the ethereal glow in the half light of ‘ Super Star ’ ( see page 129 ) , the exquisite shape and deepest of all crimson-black red of ‘ Charles Mallerin ’ or a hundred and one other modern marvels .
6 The essence of what the popes required of the emperors and how they saw the imperial office is enshrined in the imperial oaths taken at the time of coronation and in the prayer at the conferment of the sword .
7 Whilst we should be sceptical of rhetorical strategies adopted for tactical reasons , the opinions of prominent Tories expressed at the time of the Revolution itself deserve to be given more weight .
8 Those aware that in May 1989 Sotheby 's New York sold for $67 million a small group of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings inherited and collected by Ortiz-Patiño and once displayed in his house in Switzerland ( notable among the eight paintings offered at the time was Gauguin 's ‘ Mata Mua ’ , a Tahitian composition that sold for over $24 million to its former co-owner , Baron Thyssen , having been jointly purchased by Ortiz-Patiño and Thyssen only five years before at Sotheby 's New York for $3.85 million ) , may ask themselves how will Jaime Ortiz-Patiño furnish and decorate his London flat ?
9 Walden away to my left was patterned with meticulously regular fields built during the time of the later enclosures .
10 ‘ It is not surprising therefore that here in Britain the recovery that nearly all forecasters expected at the time of the Budget in March has still not become established .
11 In August 1333 the king declared that divers woods and other places in Surrey had been unjustifiably disafforested under colour of the Statute of 1327 : there was evidence in ‘ divers inquisitions taken in the time of his progenitors and … other memoranda in the Exchequer ’ that they ought to remain in the forest .
12 Whether or not the Communist leaders really believed this or any other of the sweeping statements made at the time is questionable .
13 More often than not , oils chosen this way turn out to be the very ones needed at the time , and as the person 's physical and emotional state alters , so might their aroma preference .
14 but choice it is , choice of alignments with the social or political forces presented at the time .
15 There is then a carefully chosen extract from the writer 's work , followed by a bibliography , which not only includes references to critical responses done at the time of publication but modern reassessments as well .
16 This enabled companies not only to cut costs but also by-pass awkward labour-protection laws introduced during the time of the left-wing military dictatorship .
17 The marriage age steadily dropped until half of American brides married by the time they were twenty and three-quarters of English girls were marrying by the age of twenty-five .
18 Instead , as the Financial Times reported at the time , Ford was making more money out of currency trading than it was from selling cars .
19 His achievement was to draw on these two strains , and on the contemporary Elizabethan taste for the kind of ingenious conceits known at the time as ‘ devices ’ to produce a creative synthesis .
20 Although divorce is affecting an increasing number of people , little is known about the longer term social and economic effects of the financial arrangements made at the time of divorce .
21 The first part of the study examines the impact of financial arrangements made at the time of the divorce on the people directly concerned for the three years following the divorce .
22 The two men ceased for a time even to acknowledge one another in the street ; and though they later resumed formal courtesies , close friendship was dead .
23 In future , companies joining a group with such losses will be allowed to use them only against gains on other assets owned at the time it was acquired .
24 Special emoluments or other benefits paid at the time of the transaction ;
25 The question of coastal water quality and sewage treatment was one of the main issues raised at the time of water privatization in 1989 .
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