Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boro 's magnificent performance , and the backing of their fans , made it a memorable night , on which they were also denied by the fingertips of Danish international goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel , who made a superb save from Willie Falconer in extra time . |
| 2 | Thus two years ago , when Ministry of Education planners introduced a more practical and less theoretical maths programme in technical schools , several teachers who had been trained in Portugal in colonial times complained that by dropping square-root calculations from the course , the ministry was reducing the ‘ quality ’ of education . |
| 3 | They were with Sylvia Toye for long time . |
| 4 | Must be young and presentable with attractive personality … some travel and domestic duties , ’ read the ad that ran in January in Gay Times . |
| 5 | The King of England in ancient times , he figures in fairy legends as follows : a mysterious creature covered in hair and cloven-hoofed , paid a visit to King Herla on the occasion of his marriage and showered him with many marvellous gifts . |
| 6 | The use of nicknames to identify individuals arose in England in Anglo-Saxon times ( at the latest ) — there are the cases of Harold Bluetooth , Svegn Forkbeard , Eadmund Ironside , all highlighting personal characteristics of men with common names . |
| 7 | In the first century A.D. Pliny wrote that it was discovered in Spain in the previous century , where it was used to spice drinks , and in England in mediaeval times it was known as " sops-in-wine " , being mixed with wine and ale as a substitute for the costly cloves from the Far East . |
| 8 | Anderson in " Scotland in Pagan Times " tells of 36 gold annular armlets , all melted except one , which were found at Coull . |
| 9 | Now , however , the book has attracted attention for another reason : it is just about the only book on art to have appeared in Russia in recent times . |
| 10 | June 1941 was the second devastating German invasion of Russia in recent times and it was understandable that Moscow wished to create a buffer zone between itself and Germany . |
| 11 | Enlightened dry-fly anglers , too , have already been taking some tremendous catches with it and it will surely prove devastating for dapping , the earliest form of fly fishing , a method still used extensively in Ireland at certain times of year . |
| 12 | And a Dickens of good time . |
| 13 | The importance of this ( literal ) step is emphasized rhetorically by Dickens in Hard Times ( 1854 ) : |
| 14 | ‘ It was the Capitol in ancient times , and the smallest of the seven hills of Rome . |
| 15 | The wonderful figure in fig. 125 may be Iamos , legendary ancestor of the Iamids , prophets at Olympia in historical times . |
| 16 | It is suggested that the decline of the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher in recent times has left the individual injured by the activities of our industrial society without adequate protection . |
| 17 | I 'd like to reach Salisbury in good time to take a look at the city 's many charms . ’ |
| 18 | Several horses are said to have been buried there , standing up , at the request of the eccentric vicar whose family had the house built in School Lane in Edwardian times . |
| 19 | At least another four witnesses placed Drew in or about Cross Street at varying times on the fateful Saturday afternoon . |
| 20 | LIVERPOOL 'S Steve McManaman will have a cartilage operation today on the knee injury sustained in a challenge with John Beresford during extra time at Highbury yesterday . |
| 21 | ‘ Mr Gradgrind in Hard Times embodies the spirit of industrial capitalism as Dickens saw it . |
| 22 | Few truly large stations were built in China until modern times , when the Russians assisted in the building of a vast new station in Peking . |
| 23 | To judge from the numerous clay copies of human skulls , plastered with clay and having cowrie shells in place of eyes , from the Sepik River , a similar practice obtained in New Guinea in recent times . |
| 24 | Without discounting the possibility that sources may yet be found in the mountains of China , present indications are that jade was already reaching China in Neolithic times by the route followed during the Bronze Age and down to the time of Sir Aurel Stein 's travels in inner Asia at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 25 | Like most villages , Lund in past times was much more self-sufficient than it is now , with its own grocers , shoemakers , tailors and the like and , during the 19th century , a second public house , the Speed the Plough . |
| 26 | The ‘ Christ against culture ’ position was adopted by Tertullian in the fourth century and Tolstoy in recent times . |
| 27 | They were first brought to England by explorers like Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh in Elizabethan times . |
| 28 | This has been reflected in the attitude of the National Front towards new commonwealth citizens in the United Kingdom in recent times . |
| 29 | I love Venice at Carnival time . |
| 30 | ‘ Did she know the statistics ? ’ began the poet injuriously , longing to tell us what Sissy Jupe in Hard Times appropriately called the ‘ stutterings . ’ |