Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside the plant , levels of radiation in the abandoned reactor building rose to many times the lethal level . |
| 2 | To create a sense of occasion that is in keeping with the depth of emotion felt at such times is very difficult without recognized formalities and strong ritualistic content . |
| 3 | But the nuclear industry had by this time received yet a further green light . |
| 4 | As it happened , though the tension continued for some time after the building of the Berlin Wall in August to stop the flight of East Germans to the West , the two sides had to settle for a stalemate . |
| 5 | The Boston economy expanded rapidly during the 1970s and the shift from a manufacturing to a service base accelerated during that time . |
| 6 | Three pound fifteen shillings yeah and that 's how , that 's how the work went at that time but as I say these boatmen erm they used t they used to sit down on lock gates day in and day out and did n't have a ship to come in but I 've kno kno known them to row down the river at high tide or it 's before high tide and there 'd be another erm , there 'd be other boatmen there , one was called , he went down , he used to go down and get 'em going , there used to be a race between these two families or the and the first one got the boat , the first one roped it in you see , or wh what we call roping in , moor mooring the ship up , that was |
| 7 | They were good value , because they were in a style that he could wear anywhere and they were strong enough for all his walking and kept his feet from being bruised on the city pavements , for when you walk as much and as far as Boy did at that time you can hurt your feet badly . |
| 8 | All those who went through the ordeal had at some time survived an accident or illness when their lives had been despaired of . |
| 9 | A possible intervention of the King 's Proctor to upset the divorce had for some time been lurking in the Government 's mind . |
| 10 | Steelworkers in the public sector had for some time been in dispute with their employers , the British Steel Corporation , and had come out on strike . |
| 11 | Councillor Matheson also asked if any social workers presently in the employ of Orkney Islands Council had at any time in their careers , attended conferences , seminars or other courses organised by the Reachout Trust ? |
| 12 | Certain branches of the Ulster Workers ' Council wished for more time to prepare their particular factory or section of industry . |
| 13 | Although this took place only three days later , Brunel and Burn had in that time examined forty-four schemes and produced a nine-page report vindicating the efforts of Angell and Pownall . |
| 14 | As the law stood at that time local authorities could place limits on the number of pupils in each of its schools , and the Secretary of State said that he had no power to intervene in the Dewsbury case . |
| 15 | As Duclaud-Williams ( 1978 ) suggests , the operation of rent rebates and other principles embodied in the Act tended at that time to swing the balance further in favour of home buyers and away from the two rented sectors . |
| 16 | In February 1987 it secured only 6.4% — less than the 11.8% won by the Progressive Democrats , a new party whose emergence seemed at that time to betoken the awakening of a new and more specifically political consciousness among Irish voters . |
| 17 | No major Arab initiative materialized at this time , although the Yugoslav Foreign Minister on behalf of the Non-aligned Movement pursued ideas on lines similar to those explored in December by Algerian President Col. Chadli Bendjedid [ see p. 37927 ] . |
| 18 | The facades of 106 houses were rapidly built , but it was another twenty years or more before many of the interiors were begun and Kemp Town stayed for some time rather like a giant film set with the image of grandeur propped up by heavy wooden beams . |
| 19 | Lukács ' early assault on Marxist economism , subsequently retracted under criticism from the Leninist orthodoxy of the Comintern , became particularly influential in the post-war period among Marxist intellectuals who sought to redefine a new Marxist humanism against the economism of Stalinism with which Lukács ' name had by that time itself become associated . |
| 20 | Goebbels 's propaganda had by this time in any case lost practically all credibility . |
| 21 | B : [ pragmatically interpreted particle ] the milkman came at some time prior to the time of speaking Yet it is clear to native speakers that what would ordinarily be communicated by such an exchange involves considerably more , along the lines of the italicized material in ( 3 ) : ( 3 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time of the present moment , as standardly indicated on a watch , and if so please do so tell me B : No I do n't know the exact time of the present moment , but I can provide some information from which you may be able to deduce the approximate time , namely the milkman has come ( see R. Lakoff , 1973a ; Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 172ff for a discussion of such examples ) . |
| 22 | No such guide existed at that time ; but summarisation of legal matters in any comprehensive yet comprehensible form is a difficult and risky business , so that the task was not one which the writer regarded with relish . |
| 23 | more time spent on devolution resulted in less time spent ‘ running ’ the school — teachers expected to spend their time educating the pupils rather than running a business ; |
| 24 | This train ran for some time , but was not considered entirely successful . |
| 25 | Plans for the opera continued for some time : |
| 26 | The Principal had by this time become almost as fluorescent as the neon sign outside his academy , and we eyeballed one another in a spirit entirely lacking in camaraderie . |
| 27 | As it happened , my father had around this time come to the end of his distinguished service at Loughborough House with the death of his employer , Mr John Silvers , and had been at something of a loss for work and accommodation . |
| 28 | Initially there had been a substantial market for British films in the US , where demand remained for some time ahead of the production levels achieved by American filmmakers . |
| 29 | ' How the Holy Spirit spoke at this time is unclear , but it seems reasonable to suppose that it was through a prophecy or exhortation given through another of the leaders . |
| 30 | And they sat in the car with the windows down in the freezing dawn and they watched the distant city lights going out under the dawn at five in the morning , they sat there for a full half hour , looking , and thinking how beautiful the city looked at this time and at this distance … |