Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They were a wonderful group who impressed from the time they came in . |
| 5 | Until then , its leaders continued to reflect the ascendancy they enjoyed at the time of the 1945 Potsdam conference . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At least , that much Annie gathered from other discussions and the political writing which flourished at the time . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | Cllr Peter Corcoran , Labour spokesman for land and development , said : ‘ The offer we accepted at the time was , in our view , the best scheme . ’ |
| 14 | The educational regimes apparent in early asylums pay tribute to the humanitarian spirit which existed at the time . |
| 15 | 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 " ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And he did n't forget the man he had beaten , and to whom he acknowledged America owed a debt : ‘ I want all of you to join with me tonight in expressing our gratitude to President Bush for his lifetime of public service , for the effort he made from the time he was a young soldier in the second world war , to helping to bring about an end to the Cold War , to our victory in the Gulf War , to the grace with which he conceded the results of this election tonight in the finest American tradition . ’ |
| 22 | The social worker I had at the time kept coming to see me in Low Newton and saying , ‘ Do you not think it 's best if you get him adopted ? ’ |
| 23 | And the whole book is really about er the Versailles conference in a way , is n't it , and about why he behaved the way he did at the time . |
| 24 | In the early stages we started off with perhaps Minor schools which could almost have been Major ones , because you were just trying to find any school that had got some kind of life , or interest , or things happening … really in many ways it was rather a matter of chance because of the way it happened at the time . |
| 25 | Last year there was at least the argument that high interest rates were about getting inflation down ( a view I disputed at the time ) . |