Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They assert that the payments to Anser were transactions at an undervalue made at a time when the company was unable to pay its debts and within the relevant period of time stipulated in section 240 . |
| 2 | Although such testimony is important , it is a little unfortunate that Dobson 's influence led for a time to an undervaluing of occasional spellings , rhymes and puns . |
| 3 | To illustrate this , here 's a II/V sequence down a cycle of 4ths , dealing with one string set at a time . |
| 4 | But housing committee chairman , Bill Dixon , said the criticism related to a time before Labour was in office . |
| 5 | Moreover , with a politically more secure government and fewer power cuts ( the benefits of new investment were gradually coming through ) , the threat of public exposure could not be as effectively used by the Boards against Whitehall , though the mandarins remained for a time concerned that Citrine was aiming at such an anti-government campaign . |
| 6 | Similarly if in a language a woman referred to her son by the same term as she used for the son of her sister , this showed that the system of terms developed at a time when the two sisters would have been co-wives of the same man or men . |
| 7 | One may therefore further suggest that the terms originated in a time when the distinction between the two classes lay essentially in the geographical location of the medreses . |
| 8 | The church was held back from full-scale episcopal organization by the thought of the expense and the political commitment involved at a time when ‘ a prince of the church ’ was a perfectly reasonable way to describe a bishop . |
| 9 | The electronic popular music of rock is so different in form and function from the old print-based pop of ‘ moon and June ’ , and so akin to the old pre-literate oral forms of folk music , that most of the assumptions made today about the relations between the two are misguided , based on theories devised at a time when the complete destruction of folk culture by the industrial state seemed only a matter of time . |
| 10 | Buchanan 's Triangles clubmate Mark Tosh pushed hard to try and catch him on the five-mile run but the Derry man won in a time of 1.28.52 . |
| 11 | For works written at a time when Beethoven was still in his middle period , the lyricism in the works is extraordinary . |
| 12 | Hannah 's film was transmitted at 10.30 p.m. on Tuesday , 30 January 1973 , to an audience approaching five million — a very respectable rating for a documentary shown at a time when most people are either retiring for the night or thinking about it . |
| 13 | With the retirement of Thomas Goldney the firm reverted for a time to Pountney and Co , and eventually became known simply as the Bristol Pottery until its cessation in the 1960s . |
| 14 | The two men ceased for a time even to acknowledge one another in the street ; and though they later resumed formal courtesies , close friendship was dead . |
| 15 | Now , like all revolutionaries , its earliest protagonists possessed a certain prophetic fervour and the time when this fervour was at its height coincided with a time when , following independence , aid to Africa had been vastly increased , with the usual mixed motives . |
| 16 | My nightmares returned at a time when everything was crowding in on me and I could n't cope . |
| 17 | Following the Act 's implementation , the proportion of defendants who were refused bail while awaiting summary trial declined for a time , and even though it rose thereafter , in 1999 it was still 1 per cent below the 1979 figure of 16 per cent . |
| 18 | The disappointing results of this survey come at a time when the second WHO review of its Health for All policy concludes that ‘ the implementation of strategies to achieve those aims has in many cases slowed down ’ . |
| 19 | It is a romantic adventure set in a time when the role of women was very much restricted by dress and their rights , but compared to ‘ Anna Karenina ’ it is a modern novel , first published in 1941 . |
| 20 | This unfortunately is a series caught in a time warp . |
| 21 | In opposition , and to some extent isolated at a time of political consensus , Conservative educators like Professor Brian Cox and Dr Rhodes Boyson attracted considerable press attention through the publication of a series of ‘ Black Papers on Education ’ . |
| 22 | And sadly the first time he flew without me he perished , leaving Bob Pointer and myself wondering why events in our puny lives are so ordained and arranged as to inflict the maximum hurt at a time like that . |
| 23 | The decisions on this were taken in August 1981 before the formal emergence of the Labour Party split at a time when the old guard were in control of the Labour Group . |