Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to note that the political party system in the Republic of Ireland is largely based on the divisions in the national-popular consciousness which occurred at the time of the Irish civil war . |
| 2 | In retrospect it is hard to judge the extent to which the success of this policy ( and , for all the worries it caused at the time , it was a success by comparison with the economy management disasters of the 1960s and 1970s ) was due to good management , and the extent to which it was due to external and internal economic factors outside government control , in particular to the postwar recovery and the stimulus provided by the continuing military activity of the ‘ cold war ’ . |
| 3 | Baroness Hooper 's letter stated that help with NHS charges for students were based on an individual assessment of ability to pay and on circumstances which existed at the time a claim was made . |
| 4 | Once we have worked out with you how much you will pay towards your care , the Department has the right to continue to base this on the amount of money you had at the time of your assessment . |
| 5 | I see that an article I wrote at the time entitled ‘ What should we say to Germany ? ’ reflected this point of view , though with less explicitness . |
| 6 | They were a wonderful group who impressed from the time they came in . |
| 7 | Until then , its leaders continued to reflect the ascendancy they enjoyed at the time of the 1945 Potsdam conference . |
| 8 | That was not so on the men 's tour , which means it would be very much easier for the ITF to set up its own women 's tour linking many of the principal regular events such as Berlin , Eastbourne , Brighton etc , with the Grand Slams , than it would have been had they responded to the many appeals they had at the time to set up a men 's circuit in competition with ATP … |
| 9 | They both headed the list with the responsibilities they had at the time . |
| 10 | Erm the effect was that that er on on on on the assessment we did at the time , that it would n't have affected flows on the A sixty one in the centre of Harrogate . |
| 11 | I assume you can not , for already the feelings I had at the time are inscrutable to me , so imbued was I with an electric sense of occasion . |
| 12 | Yet yesterday 's report on the Clapham crash , confirming the picture which emerged throughout the Hidden inquiry , makes an event which seemed at the time totally unexpected look almost inevitable . |
| 13 | The only evidence which seemed at the time to offer any reliable dating was that of the coins which were of sufficient interest to the nineteenth-century antiquarians for them to be recorded , although rarely in detail . |
| 14 | Were there other theatre producers you admired at the time ? |
| 15 | The memories they described in response to the stimulus were highly specific and no longer consciously recollected ; on experiencing the memory they also relived the feelings they had at the time . |
| 16 | I du n no , they get in on a Friday night he said by the time we 've cashed up , when I got there they 'd got this round coffee table in the middle of the room similar to that brass one what I 'm but it 's an old tin thing it is sitting in the middle of the room there was a little bag of money there a little bag of money there and a bag of money there that 's Geoff 's money that 's petrol money that 's five hundred pound . |
| 17 | At least , that much Annie gathered from other discussions and the political writing which flourished at the time . |
| 18 | ‘ I remember this dodgy little manager we had at the time sent out five copies , and I can remember the one he sent to Sounds . |
| 19 | ‘ I remember this dodgy little manager we had at the time sent out five copies , and I can remember the one he sent to Sounds . |
| 20 | Cllr Peter Corcoran , Labour spokesman for land and development , said : ‘ The offer we accepted at the time was , in our view , the best scheme . ’ |
| 21 | While appreciating the sophistication and fluidity of de Gaulle 's conceptions , one can not overlook the extreme reactions they provoked at the time or the extensive and mostly critical academic literature that has grown up around them since then . |
| 22 | Some of these animals were and are big : one species which existed around the time of the catastrophe was 15 m ( 50 ft ) long . |
| 23 | The accounts for the first year indicated quite clearly the recognition of the social divisions which existed at the time . |
| 24 | The educational regimes apparent in early asylums pay tribute to the humanitarian spirit which existed at the time . |
| 25 | Prima facie the rules of construction must be applied as at the date of execution of the lease : thus a word will be interpreted in the sense it bore at the time ( Texaco Antilles Ltd v Kernochan [ 1973 ] AC 609 : the phrase " public garage " was given the meaning it bore in 1933 and not the one it bore at the date of the litigation ; St Marylebone Property Co Ltd v Tesco Stores Ltd [ 1988 ] 27 EG 72 construing the word " grocer " ) . |
| 26 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper , Louis van Tilburg , research curator at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam commented : ‘ On the basis of the photos we have been able to inspect we are confident that the six drawings do not fit within the oeuvre of Van Gogh and do not correspond in any way with the graphic style he developed at the time . |
| 27 | The Law Lords found that she should have been fully informed by the bank that she was risking her whole house by guaranteeing a loan to her husband 's business , not the limited amount she believed at the time . |
| 28 | Much of the learning and practice of the Egyptians was absorbed by Greek physicians , one of the best known of whom is Dioscorides , an army doctor who lived during the time of Nero in the first century AD . |
| 29 | After a pub lunch we did a bit outside the car-park mortuary and then settled down with the telephone to record some attempts to buy a coffin , one of which resulted in agreement , which was the last thing we needed at the time , although it came in very handy later . |
| 30 | We immediately notified the Department of Trade that Mohamed Fayed 's representations were incorrect , and gave what information we had at the time , which was sufficient to alarm , or at least give pause for basic investigations . |