Example sentences of "part [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the time he may almost be unaware that he is speaking to another person — after all Gila does n't understand English very well and it is unlikely that she would fully understand the references to Rupert Brooke and the poem ‘ The Old Vicarage , Grantchester ’ . |
| 2 | Part of the time , she happily balanced the books with skill and vigour . |
| 3 | However the board 's chief executive , Alan Smith , was able to say that unlike yesterday 's press conference the issue at the board meeting did not occupy a major part of the time . |
| 4 | However the board 's chief executive , Alan Smith , was able to say that unlike yesterday 's press conference the issue at the board meeting did not occupy a major part of the time . |
| 5 | In fact ( the myth persists ) , even if the slim person does not especially like these foods , he or she sticks with them for a large part of the time in order to maintain a trim figure . |
| 6 | However , often the best way of challenging a dysfunctional attitude is to test out the validity of the attitude , for example a client who believed he could not stand going to a party might be invited to test this belief out by going , for at least part of the time . |
| 7 | However she indicated that she still felt guilty a good part of the time . |
| 8 | Part of the time it just hung there in the water , not even the tip of a fin moving . |
| 9 | In most countries , groundwater flows from aquifers throughout the year but rainfall replenishes them for only part of the time . |
| 10 | He was blindfolded for part of the time , which had the effect of making him ‘ look inside of himself ’ and he admitted that he was not ready for the experience and some of the discoveries he made . |
| 11 | If a large meeting breaks into small groups for part of the time , any of the following ideas could be used : |
| 12 | This , as Economist journalists discovered , proved to be a highly unorthodox meeting , as two outsiders , neither of whom were bound by the Privy Counsellor 's oath of confidentiality , were in attendance : ‘ Chaired by Mrs Thatcher , [ the meeting ] was attended , unusually , for part of the time , by two outsiders : Sir John Cuckney , Westland 's chairman … and Mr Marcus Agius , a director of Lazard 's , Westland 's financial advisers . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Coleridge was at Bristol part of the time I was there , ’ he wrote in October . |
| 14 | During the greater part of the time , at the beginning , you had to put up with it because the alternative was ten bob a week unemployment . |
| 15 | The key worker should be on hand for part of the time to settle in the new resident . |
| 16 | He was on the run for forty-three days , sheltering for part of the time in a cornfield , being fed occasionally by sympathetic French farmers , but was hunted down and sent to captivity in Belgium . |
| 17 | In Joan Halton 's attempt to be more whole , she needed to know more about her desire to come first , at least for part of the time , rather than always maintaining the veneer of premature maturity she had felt forced into adopting as a child . |
| 18 | A good part of the time you spend airborne is devoted to mastering that seemingly magic characteristic . |
| 19 | The person whose stammer is caused through lack of confidence or chronic anxiety is breathing this way for the greater part of the time . |
| 20 | Yet his real home for part of the time he was Marje 's lover was with Meli Meitner in her Kensington apartment . |
| 21 | Although he intended to live in the house , for at least part of the time , he saw it too as saleable and the value or price of it ( however you liked to put it ) going up every year . |
| 22 | My eldest daughter Ailsa was staying there part of the time , studying art at the Byam Shaw College of Art , and falling in love with her tutor , whom she later married . |
| 23 | In Lancaster , where I 'd come out , there had always been a mixed scene ; in many places outside the big towns , most of the lesbians and gay men continued to hang together for at least part of the time because there did n't seem enough of us to consider doing much else . |
| 24 | However heaters only operate part of the time , so it is generous to say 1p per hour . |
| 25 | A red semi-regular variable in the Great Bear , with a range from 6.8 to 9.1 and a rough period of 198 days ; for part of the time it is an easy binocular object . |
| 26 | Part of the time he sees them in the familiar way as creatures who lack rationality to at least some degree . |
| 27 | But Bert was there part of the time . " |
| 28 | Sustained collaboration was usually initiated by pupils themselves , or else it required the presence of the teacher for all or part of the time . |
| 29 | provided the pupil is mainly taught programme of study material within the range of levels appropriate to his or her key stage , schools may teach the pupil for part of the time at a level falling outside the key stage … |
| 30 | He absconded from [ the open unit ] and his whereabouts were unknown for the major part of the time . |