Example sentences of "which [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Lāla Bahādur 's desultory grizzling , which for some time had provided a steady accompaniment to his father 's voice , suddenly broke into an urgent heartfelt wail . |
| 2 | Connected to the main library was a hexagonal room which for some time housed the school 's paperback bookshop . |
| 3 | They fielded a ten-man defence which for some time looked like achieving the 0–0 draw they desired . |
| 4 | In the period 1920–6 she brought within her general theory of ideals several theories which until that time had been seen as independent . |
| 5 | I conceive many People would be happy with an Art of this kind or at least it would be useful to those who die abroad and are brought back home : I often used to talk of embalming but never seriously took it in hand ‘ til the year before last , which to this time is well preserved . |
| 6 | When the Dada brochure , Cabaret Voltaire , was published in June 1916 it was ‘ a catch-all for the most diverse directions in art which at that time seemed to us to constitute ‘ Dada ’ . ’ |
| 7 | Chamoun was leader of his own National Liberal Party , which at that time included a number of conservative Shia and Sunni political leaders . |
| 8 | There is a tradition at Borwick regarding the gallery , that in the days when there was anxiety over Border raids and the beacons were prepared ready for alarm , the women drove the cattle from the fields to the courtyard , which at that time was grassed , and the barmkin ( a grassy enclosure ) , and then stationed themselves on the gallery to spin and watch . |
| 9 | The material originated from a widely distributed soil organism and was active against various bacteria , some of which at that time still awaited effective therapy . |
| 10 | I had to lift my gaze from the old dashboard that I had sat in front of for more than sixty years to a new one , and the only new one I knew of displayed the dials and instruments of what is called holistic medicine and which at that time I took to be something I knew virtually nothing about . |
| 11 | Screens were placed along the length of the hall dividing it into four aisles , leaving spaces at either end and a way through to the Law Courts , which at that time were on the west side of the hall . |
| 12 | No doubt this extensive presentation was the result of his premature start , and his large office , which at that time , had a staff of approximately seventeen . |
| 13 | The historical writer Gervase ( a monk of Canterbury and contemporary of Becket ) , although sometimes using the Annunciation discipline which at that time was in more general use , preferred for the bulk of his work , Chronica , Gesta Regum , etc. , the Christmas system — much to the irritation of later writers . |
| 14 | On Maundy Thursday , I had ceased to be a member of the top class Infants and now entered the Boys School , which at that time catered for seven to fourteen year olds — the latter being school leaving age . |
| 15 | Another casualty of this bombing raid was the Royal West of England School for the Deaf at Exeter , which at that time had seemed a safe haven , not only for the children of the area the school served , but also for the 52 children and staff of the Anerley School for the Deaf , London , who had been evacuated there on 14th September 1939 . |
| 16 | Many were involved in farming , which at that time of the year meant that cows were calving , ewes beginning to have their lambs , and people were generally busy in the spring-time agricultural work . |
| 17 | Under Dutch and early British rule their fortunes had varied according to colonial policy towards the cinnamon industry , which at that time provided most of the country 's export earnings . |
| 18 | I was asked to give a detailed case of events which at that time were 18 months old , with limited documentation . |
| 19 | We were glad to reach Rangoon which at that time of the year , early March , was very hot , and so Pop sent us up to Taungin-in the Shan States where we stayed with a delightful elderly American missionary , Miss Hughes . |
| 20 | Although Peter Handford had intended to return to the Bath side of the tunnel at night to make recordings of the several trains which at that time ran from the north towards Bournemouth in the early hours of Saturday morning , he did not do so , partly because he was reluctant to visit the place in darkness and also because each time he visited Winsor Hill tunnel to make recordings he experienced problems and misfortunes of one sort or another . |
| 21 | She was not scrapped and remained at Wroughton where on March 16 , 1956 , she was officially transferred to the RAF 's Historical Aircraft Collection , which at that time was widely dispersed at such locations such as Gaydon and Fulbeck . |
| 22 | His thoughts drifted to his own future , which at that time was uncertain . |
| 23 | The Moghul Empire , which at that time covered the northern two-thirds of the Indian subcontinent , was at its most impressive ; these were the decades of the Taj Mahal , the Red Fort at Delhi , and also of an attempt by the Muslim rulers of India to conciliate the Hindu majority . |
| 24 | I remember on one occasion having strained my own courage to the absolute limit on a contract worth 10 million , which at that time was very large indeed , in order to obtain another 200,000 . |
| 25 | As daughter of the great furniture stores magnate of the 1800's , Sir Blundell Maple , she had the wherewithal to choose a site in her favourite wood , which at that time , extended to an estate covering several miles . |
| 26 | They too are planted by machine but , unlike maincrop potatoes , they are lifted by hand to avoid the risk of damage to their skins which at that time have not ‘ set ’ . |
| 27 | I decided to commit myself to the revolution and in January 1981 , went to the Frente Paracentral , which at that time covered parts of the Departments of Cabanas . |
| 28 | Pagina , a move which at that time necessitated his resignation from Canterbury . |
| 29 | It was designed and constructed by one of the new generation of civil engineers , M. Lang , in a form that presages early Victorian railway architecture , which at that time had not yet appeared . |
| 30 | From this it was only a short step to total involvement in folk culture , and his ability to play the gipsy violin led him to join the Gyorgyos Bokreta group , which at that time offered a programme of traditional songs and dances from the Bata region . |