Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although her appointments were made with an eye to preserving party unity as well as recognizing ability , Thatcherites — often young and lacking ministerial experience — were not obvious candidates for promotion at the time . |
| 2 | This order is consistent with the established relationships between subjects at the time that the scheme was first published ( 1876 ) , but produces some strange collocations for today 's literature . |
| 3 | His would not have been the only provincial accent to assail the ears of Londoners at the time , but at least it would have lent his speech a touch of bucolic appeal , with its rolling Somerset post-vocalic ‘ r ’ sounds and a liberal sprinkling of ‘ v 's for ‘ f's and ‘ z's for ‘ S'S . |
| 4 | All the pop songs in vogue at the time were sung communally — songs such as those from the award-winning film , Hong Gaoliang ( Red Sorghum ) and the virtual national anthem of youth during 1988 , ‘ Yi Wu Suo You ’ , ‘ The One Who Has Nothing ’ . |
| 5 | The basic figures we have for this emigration — 100,000 prisoners of war brought from Palestine into Egypt by Ptolemy I ( Aristeas 12–14 ) and 1,000,000 Jews in Egypt at the time of Philo ( in Flacc. 43 ) — are almost certainly both false . |
| 6 | There were in fact a small number of such Chetniks in Austria at the time , the 400 Montenegrins at Viktring , although there is no evidence that Gen Robertson was aware of their existence . |
| 7 | The organisers had already begun to promise a strong local bill topped by the two biggest attractions in Manchester at the time , The Chameleons and , of course , The Smiths . |
| 8 | The downtrodden captives in Egypt at the time of the Exodus came to realise that Yahweh , the only self-existent one ( Exod. 3:14 ) , was a mighty deliverer who could be trusted . |
| 9 | There were only three other black kids at Repton at the time and Hope had to withstand some daunting reactions to his presence at the club in the East End of London . |
| 10 | We just prowled around the halls at RCA at the time , going in any doors that were open and asking for things and demanding things . |
| 11 | If a case is transferred , any directions in force at the time of transfer will continue to apply unless and until varied by the receiving court ( FPCR , r14(11) ; FPR , r4.14(9) ) . |
| 12 | Bradley explains that of the 70,000 visitors in LA at the time of last year 's riots not one was injured . |
| 13 | As we have seen , there were already deep religious tensions in society at the time of the Restoration , between separatists who wanted toleration , Presbyterians and moderate Anglicans who wanted a comprehensive Church settlement but no toleration , and hard-line Anglicans who wanted the re-establishment of the Church on their own lines with no concessions to either Presbyterians or separatists . |
| 14 | But the fact remains that there is no formal record that AFHQ had specifically been informed of the approach of the Croats to Austria at the time when Robertson drafted his signal . |
| 15 | One can hardly blame them , they had too many urgent and pressing matters on hand at the time to worry about such things . |
| 16 | Much of each judgment was taken up with painstaking reviews of the historical and social context of the advertisement 's publication , with the syntactical features of the sentence and its relationship to the rest of the advertisement , and with the undeniable fact that indeed there was considerable ‘ evidence ’ about the matters at hand at the time of the advertisement 's publication . |
| 17 | A number were still pursuing court cases against SWWA at the time of writing . |
| 18 | Three of the principal shareholders were already producing films for release at the time of Dustin 's signing , and unfortunately proving that artistic liberty was not synonymous with artistic quality . |
| 19 | Many Labour councils held these kinds of sentiments at the time . |
| 20 | DESPITE his criticisms , among those who predicted the outcome of the election with astonishing accuracy ( and subject to hoots of disbelief at the time ) was Sir Tim . |
| 21 | With COSMOS all children 2 to 15 years of age at the time of return travel qualify for the specially reduced child prices advertised in the holiday pages as long as they share a room with 2 adults . |
| 22 | Children under 2 years of age at the time of return travel go free , but must travel on an adult 's lap unless there is a free seat available . |
| 23 | LOW CHILD PRICES apply to children 2 to 15 years of age at the time of return travel , when sharing a room with 2 adults ( See page 5 ) . |
| 24 | No deposit is payable for infants under 2 years of age at the time of return travel . |
| 25 | Although the seriousness of the crime meant that the youths had been tried as adults , the fact that all were under 16 years of age at the time of the attack ( April 1989 ) meant that they had to be sentenced as juveniles . |
| 26 | Only in exceptional circumstances will the faculty offer places to applicants who will be less than seventeen and a half years of age at the time of commencing their studies . |
| 27 | While this change was not the immediate source of the popular jingoism that swept the lower middle classes in Britain at the time of the Boer War , or later in all the Great Powers in 1914 , nonetheless popular nationalism and imperialism were becoming factors in national politics . |
| 28 | Khrushchev 's statement that the Cuban Communists had no contacts with Castro at the time of his victory is not strictly accurate . |
| 29 | Nor do I think that either the father or the court were exercising any rights of custody at the time of the removal . |
| 30 | The veteran astrophysicist Sir Fred Hoyle , with his colleague Chandra Wickramasinghe , believes that these molecules were probably brought to the surface of the Earth via the tiny dust grains on meteorites and comets , or on interstellar winds , and succeeded in germinating life in the fertile conditions of Earth at the time . |