Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] the time " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This order is consistent with the established relationships between subjects at the time that the scheme was first published ( 1876 ) , but produces some strange collocations for today 's literature . |
| 2 | This time the four definitive gricers ' bibles of the time come in one small , hardbacked ( and thus very easily pocketed ) volume with many pictures and full shed lists ( complete with the names of Loco Superintendents and Chief Mechanical Engineers ? ) which would have been important information for spotters of the time . |
| 3 | He was lost for words at the time , and had to apologise and thank the donors later in private . |
| 4 | To do so requires a comparison of the market-makers actual portfolio of investments at the time of the disclosure of the inside information , with the portfolio he could have had in the absence of the inside trade . |
| 5 | Miss C 's mother has never been told of the attack , because she was undergoing a series of operations at the time . |
| 6 | Questioned by the procurator-fiscal , Andrew Normand , British Rail 's director of operations at the time , Terence Worrall , admitted that had the sheriff 's deliberations been fully taken into account , additional safety procedures would have been introduced which would have prevented the Newton disaster . |
| 7 | Questioned by the procurator-fiscal , Andrew Normand , British Rail 's director of operations at the time , Terence Worrall , admitted that had the sheriff 's deliberations been fully taken into account , additional safety procedures would have been introduced which would have prevented the Newton accident . |
| 8 | This added a couple of minutes to the time it took . |
| 9 | But his co-accused , Robert Henry ( 24 ) , of Rathmore Drive , Rathcoole , denies murdering Mr McTasney and possession of firearms at the time of the shooting . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know if it 's of any help but — er — I made a couple of notes at the time . |
| 11 | The diagnosis of gonorrhoea in man can thus be confirmed in the majority of cases within the time it takes to stain and examine a slide of urethral discharge from the penis — a matter of some fifteen or twenty minutes . |
| 12 | They were constrained by s I mean like what they wanted to do was constrained by the practical sort of necessities of the time and even if they had wanted to have a more vigorous policy of land reform |
| 13 | As with chimneys , so with synapses ; if they are constructed — or even reconstructed — during learning , one might expect a brief increase in the rate of synthesis of proteins over the time when an animal was being trained and memory was being formed . |
| 14 | So I started tracing back the roots , like a lot of kids at the time . |
| 15 | Both MV and PT measure the total value of transactions during the time period and so must be identical . |
| 16 | Part of the experiment was to hold a couple of quizzes at the time of year when we might expect problems with speakers and audience having to travel in bad weather . |
| 17 | The actors themselves are generally keen to help , both in person and through the mouths of officials at the time , and ( often telling a rather different tale ) in tranquil autobiographies afterwards . |
| 18 | Many Labour councils held these kinds of sentiments at the time . |
| 19 | In order to fully understand an alarm reaction it is useful to think back many thousands of years to the time of the caveman . |
| 20 | Leaving aside the question of costs for the time being , what kind of problems will a government anxious to promote positive discrimination policies have to face ? |
| 21 | Now , locations can be specified relative to other objects or fixed reference points , as in : ( 66 ) The station is two hundred yards from the cathedral ( 67 ) Kabul lies at latitude 34 degrees , longitude 7° degrees Alternatively , they can be deictically specified relative to the location of participants at the time of speaking ( CT ) , as in ( 68 ) It 's two hundred yards away ( 69 ) Kabul is four hundred miles West of here In either case it is likely that units of measurement , or descriptions of direction and location , will have to be used , and in that case place deixis comes to interact in complex ways with the non-deictic organization of space ( see Leech , 1969 ; Fillmore , 1975 : 16-28 ; Lyons , 1977a : 69Off ; and references therein ) . |
| 22 | The concerns of a small group of desert raiders probably came very low in the order of priorities at the time . |
| 23 | Referring issues to the firm holding a particular position is especially popular in share valuation and other functions entrusted to the firm of auditors for the time being of the company in question . |
| 24 | Edward had dropped the whole cargo of gifts by the time he had got down the twenty iron rungs of the ladder . |
| 25 | The absence of endowments before the time of the Emperor Constantine inevitably meant that well-to-do Christians had much influence on their local communities , which could be decisive when a new bishop was being chosen . |
| 26 | He offered £500 towards the cost of fortifications at the time of the renewal of his lease , and he secured government support for the maintenance of a garrison there . |
| 27 | The publication of details at the time would not have helped the morale of the Allies , but it was impossible to prevent the incident being talked about by servicemen in the area . |
| 28 | Her sight was failing because of cataracts at the time these were written . |
| 29 | The greatest problem for the historian of late medieval population in England is that he has no reliable figure for the number of inhabitants at the time when the plague struck the country first . |
| 30 | The main recommendations of the Royal Commission , which found that three-quarters of all clients had no complaints about their bills , was that more information in writing should be given to clients about the basis of charges at the time the solicitor is first instructed . |