Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several varieties of chalcedony , a silica in crystalline form , translucent and sometimes transparent , waxy to the touch , hard and extremely enduring , were treasured for jewellery , amulets and seal-stones from the earliest civilizations of the Old World down to the present time . |
| 2 | Therefore I believe that man and his God have evolved together over that immense period of time which started with the advent of earthly life , reaches right through to the present time and will continue onwards forever , or until there is no longer life on earth . |
| 3 | The Third period reaches from the end of the Second period , right through to the present time and on for ever , or until there is no longer life on earth . |
| 4 | It is his type that has been projected as a desirable up to the present time , although I feel that recently , Rottweilers in Germany have become slightly lighter in build and longer in the loin , a very workmanlike animal , designed for Schutzhund work . |
| 5 | The authors observe that up to the present time most obsolescence studies have been characterized by a superficial approach to what is a highly complex situation of interlocking factors . |
| 6 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
| 7 | In posing the idea of such an ‘ iron law ’ Bukharin unwittingly predicted the actual course of events in the Soviet Union that has persisted up to the present time , that is , the continual shortfall of consumer goods production as compared to the growing population and the growth in monetary incomes . |
| 8 | Now I do n't detect in the work of the er panel on doctrine up to the present time anything which tackles |
| 9 | This was on entirely modern lines and has continued to expand right up to the present time . |
| 10 | Later in the century , with the rise of the labour movement , a different contrast was drawn , between capitalism and socialism , between ‘ bourgeois democracy ’ and ‘ socialist democracy ’ , and this distinction has largely dominated political controversy up to the present time . |
| 11 | Up to the present time , the study of language and its relation both to processes involved in language performance and to processes underlying the activity of reasoning have been fragmented , split into the separate disciplines of linguistics , artificial intelligence , pragmatics ( the study of human communication ) , and psychology , each with their own theoretical models of language or aspects of language use . |
| 12 | The letter says ‘ Up to the present time items of play equipment have been loaned by Scorton Village School but these have now had to be returned and replacement equipment will be most beneficial for the group to continue . |
| 13 | My success up to the present time has been greater than I could have anticipated both as regards obtaining much information that is entirely new as well as in bringing together one of the finest collections that has ever been formed . |
| 14 | Because largely up to the present time in the er , as far as older people are concerned , then the only alternative to the current truth , and direct provider of services , has been the straight private sector . |
| 15 | Having located a good root of title , you then need to form a chain of title from the date of that document right up to the present time . |
| 16 | She had stayed at work up to the proper time to get the full benefits and she had felt important enough , leaving to have a baby , for the loneliness to be kept at bay for the time leading up to her last day . |
| 17 | At the end of the session , I brought Maxine back to the present time and out of the hypnotic state and asked her what she felt . |
| 18 | Now bring it back to the modern time of the five day week , what is two fifths , or what are two fifths of the wage ? |
| 19 | When one goes back to the real time in which we live , however , there will still appear to be singularities . |
| 20 | So it was a case there , and course at the end of the day you rolled the little roll up , put elastic round and stood them up in a file and they stood there like little soldiers and you could always go back to the actual time , sometimes you found a man had n't re erm signed on , he 'd just gone and joined his bus up in town centre , well you , that was er subject of another letter . |
| 21 | Keegan spelled out the philosophy which is steering the Geordies back to the big time under multi-millionaire chairman Sir John Hall . |
| 22 | But maybe ye 'll be different , ye just want a taste of the exotic life and then ye 'll go back to the big time . ’ |