Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] time and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A BLOOD-SUCKING parasite from Asia is attacking Britain 's bees for the first time and honey supplies could be affected . |
| 2 | and at the end of the national hunt racing season … celebrations for Gloucestershire 's top stables … trainer David Nicholson reached a century of winners for the first time and champion jockey Richard Dunwoody finished with 173 … a record year for them both |
| 3 | The North Region PGA brought an event to the Darlington municipal course for the first time and tournament controller Les Massey said : ‘ We ca n't fault this place . |
| 4 | But arguing for the additional time and money and confronting the critics transformed a potential failure into a ringing success . |
| 5 | It was what she saw as the excessive time and attention given to the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians which she objected to most strongly , feeling that it would only be a matter of time before the Governors took action to alter the position . |
| 6 | If one accepts the story of Molla Yegan 's bringing Molla Gurani to the Ottoman court-and there seems no reason not to-then on the basis of what appears to be the fairly firm evidence for this part of Molla Gurani 's career , Molla Yegan 's return from his journey can not be dated earlier than 845/1441–2 ; and on the reasonable assumption that the purpose of Molla Yegan 's journey was to make the pilgrimage , it seems entirely likely that it was in the year 844/1440–1 , the same year that Molla Gurani made his abortive pilgrimage , that Molla Yegan also performed the hajj and that the two met somewhere after that pilgrimage , though clear information about the actual time and place of their meeting is entirely lacking . |
| 7 | In 1940 he had been quite prepared , if need be , to serve in a dangerous capacity in the ranks because he felt he could be more useful in such a rôle at that critical moment in the country 's affairs , rather than go through the extra time and training there and then for a commission . |
| 8 | Whatever may be the attitude of any individual teacher , if s/he does not receive adequate support from the school in implementing change , s/he is likely to give up , or decide that the innovation is not worth the extra time and energy required . |
| 9 | The proposed courses for the next term confirm that the college will be only using fifty percent of the available time and space for eight months of the year . |
| 10 | All knowledge , including that about social life , is a product of a specific time and place , both a particular set of social conditions and a particular way of thinking about society . |
| 11 | This lucid and candid prose , strong in the detail of a particular time and place , often ignores , and can on occasion seem to depart from , the sense of the literature it embodies . |
| 12 | If you am 18-24 , male , like a fun time and love music , I 'd like to hear from you ! |
| 13 | Homelessness has been on the increase for a long time and Government initiatives , based as they are on encouraging the private sector to fill the gap left by local authorities , have been essentially piecemeal and fragmentary . |
| 14 | The toxic nature of some animals has been known for a long time and man has utilised their venoms and poisons for various purposes . |
| 15 | All over the world , standards of beauty vary ; fat women can become the ideal , or those with small feet , or tall women , or those with blue eyes , or whatever it is that seems to capture the spirit of beauty for a particular time and place . |
| 16 | Most of these were undetectable in that there were few enquiries I could pursue after the event ; for example , the purse stolen by an unknown thief an hour or two prior to the report and perhaps with the exact time and location of the theft unknown left little chance for skilled investigation . |
| 17 | There is also a special utility called a HAM Package for amateur radio enthusiasts , in which a user can enter a call sign and the position of the remote station will be marked on the map , together with the local time and location information . |
| 18 | There is also a special utility called a HAM Package for amateur radio enthusiasts , in which a user can enter a call sign and the position of the remote station will be marked on the map , together with the local time and location information . |
| 19 | With a little time and imagination , there is no end to the low fat , high fibre energy breakfasts you can make for yourself . |
| 20 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 21 | On the other hand , co-ordination of those involved , and completion of the project within the established time and budget limits , require an elaborate procedure for planning and control . |
| 22 | Usually about two to three weeks before the actual time and date . |
| 23 | They are , no doubt , conditioned by the environment in which they live , they act in a given time and place . |
| 24 | These two institutions have a history , and they are therefore specific to a particular time and type of society and , as time passes and society goes on changing , as it always has , these institutions will change . |
| 25 | It is useful for would-be choreographers to study the historical development of classical style so that they may stage a ballet in a traditional way when it has a story firmly linked to a particular time and place . |
| 26 | You must also have practised these moves in a variety of combinations , using a small punchbag as a target , until you can automatically use the right move at the right time and distance . |
| 27 | Then you tell the story of the murder and the subsequent investigation , adroitly working in the fact that there was a red light shining at the vital time and place , using one of the ways of tricking your reader into " noticing and not noticing " this that we looked at in the previous chapter , and you also harp like mad on the impossibility of a person in a black dress or suit having been on hand at the moment the murder was committed . |
| 28 | A self-sterile tree , therefore , must be grown near another variety that blooms at the same time and will cross-pollinate its flowers . |
| 29 | MR JUSTICE SAVILLE , giving the judgment of the court , said the appellant did not suggest that the co-defendant 's committing of an act of gross indecency with the appellant was not relevant to the question whether , at the same time and place , the appellant was committing a like act with the co-defendant . |
| 30 | The unusual nature of these counter-examples indicates that they are indeed the exceptions which prove the rule , and it is normally reasonable to assume that coins made from the same die were produced at the same time and place . |