Example sentences of "a time the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |
| 2 | After a time the goat disappeared , and its place was taken by some hens , and these hens I looked after when , as quite often happened , their mistress went away for a few days . |
| 3 | These changes show how financial pressures brought about the collapse of the early Roman coinage system ; so much so that it seems that for a time the Roman state had to fight the war on credit given by some of its citizens . |
| 4 | For a time the eastern empire was able to maintain itself in Italy , but thereafter the popes had to look to the new Frankish power in the north for their temporal defences . |
| 5 | For a time the two saw each other daily . |
| 6 | Some of the demonstrators were denied access to the Diamond by police tenders drawn up across Shipquay Street but after a time the RUC withdrew altogether and the Diamond was filed by the vast crowd . |
| 7 | The inspiration of Alexander is apparent in the portraits of Pompey , the most powerful Roman of his day , and for a time the effective ruler of the eastern Mediterranean . |
| 8 | Although in the sixth century the Byzantine Emperor Justinian 's great generals Belisarius and Narses succeeded in reconquering much of the west , so that for a time the Mediterranean again became a Roman lake , in the following century Europe faced a dangerous new enemy . |
| 9 | For a time the decline in Canada 's conventional oil reserves was to be met by the development of Western Canada 's gigantic oil sands deposits . |
| 10 | Then there is a range of measurements of the functioning of the physiological systems of the animal ; we can make measurements which tell us how hard a time the animal is having trying to cope with the conditions which are imposed upon it . |
| 11 | However , once upon a time the mathematician was a child too . |
| 12 | Here one problem of panels becomes clear : with all the best intentions , panel members may be considered to be specially interested in volunteering for , or accepting an invitation to join , a certain panel , and after a time the panel member can become rather too self-conscious and sophisticated . |
| 13 | At the time the thought never entered our heads that there could be any doubt about this , and it is certain that the effect on morale throughout the country was tremendous , especially as for months at a time the war news from other parts of the world was usually bad . |
| 14 | Progress in the 19th century lay in improving refining techniques , in finding new uses ( especially in catalysis and electricity ) and discovering new sources , principally in the Urals — after which for a time the Russians adopted platinum coinage . |
| 15 | After a time the shorter children become submerged and the number under water increases as the ranks go forward . |
| 16 | As it was no longer raining they had not taken shelter in any of the caves , but after a time the thin man out of sheer restlessness looked into the nearest and came out carrying a sack . |
| 17 | Cutting off the flow of refugees did not solve the financial problem , though for a time the government acted on the assumption that the refugee organisations could now look after themselves . |
| 18 | It then eats dry instead of green grass if that is a necessity and when snow covers the landscape for many days at a time the rabbit has its own solution . |
| 19 | For a time the villagers must share their breezes , shops and sunshine with the leisure seekers . |
| 20 | When interpreting these tables it should be remembered that no matter how many animals were stolen at a time the case was recorded as one theft . |
| 21 | The 20mm and 40mm quick-firing guns here were in or on concrete emplacements , and although the crew of the outer guns were knocked out for a time the Germans got this battery firing again , and the searchlight on the Mole 's tip was never put out . |
| 22 | After a time the light flash alone will produce a jump : the person has learned the jump behaviour . |
| 23 | But once upon a time the ad pages of NME throbbed with the heady thrills of Loon pants ! |
| 24 | ONCE UPON a time The Face was the style bible not of gits in fake fur-trimmed parkas and yups looking for new big ties , but of crazy over-made-up early '80s youth , for whom mum 's old curtains and too much eye-liner signified SEX and REVOLUTION . |
| 25 | Once upon a time the only crime in this neck of the woods was domestic . |
| 26 | For a time the Romans applied it to virtually the whole of Greece . |
| 27 | The reader begins by being faintly amused at their sheer improbability ; but after a time the response turns into pained embarrassment . |
| 28 | For a time the movement for reform even embraced demands for a Constitution . |
| 29 | For a time the joy of motherhood overcame her eating-disorder . |
| 30 | ONCE UPON A TIME the Universities had representatives in parliament ; it is only now through the Conference of University Convocations and Graduate Associations ( CUCGA , a national body in which Salford has a high profile , that works to protect and enhance higher education ) that we seem to be getting some clout back . |