Example sentences of "to the time " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ As to the time of death , I took the internal body temperature at eight o'clock . |
| 32 | But each of us is different , and our needs vary according to the time of day and what we are doing . |
| 33 | To make them indicate seasonal hours , either the rate of flow or the scale of hours had to be varied according to the time of year , and considerable ingenuity appears to have been applied to achieve this . |
| 34 | Whereas Aristotle did not enquire into the mental process by which we perceive time , because he believed that our minds must necessarily conform to the time of the physical universe , St Augustine took the mind 's activity as the basis of temporal measurement . |
| 35 | Because there are so few cells and a well-defined pattern , it is possible to follow the lineage and fate of every cell at least up to the time of gastrulation . |
| 36 | Another reason why coaching does not occur as often as it might is due to the time pressures which every manager faces . |
| 37 | Many external influences can affect our state of mind , from the food we eat to the time of year , from programming in our past to stress in our current situation . |
| 38 | Yet some of the richness and wit of the Jacobean dialogue is threatened by its being spoken in thick Italian/New York accents — mastered better by some actors than others — and snatches of more modern speech , while essential for credibility , draw attention to the time warp . |
| 39 | … it has been suggested that the value of an activity may be related to the time expended by the user . |
| 40 | Too flourishing , indeed , for the vicar , who objected to the time his bell-ringers sat drinking ale . |
| 41 | Area basic training courses have varied quite considerably with regard to the time allocated to interviewing skills and solid information . |
| 42 | Such had been the history of this camp up to the time I arrived there . |
| 43 | In Newham the cost of services continued to rise slightly to the time of the third assessment , but in Ipswich they dropped back a little . |
| 44 | In 1929 the work of a cub reporter on a small town daily newspaper occupied his time from early morning until often late at night , seven days a week — in other words whenever something newsworthy was happening it had to be covered , and there were no limits to the time spent or the hours required to adequately cover any given assignment . |
| 45 | However , up to the time of his partnership agreement with Scott , he had only completed approximately ten buildings , and was perhaps better known as a writer and administrator . |
| 46 | Up to the time of this article , Ruskin had largely remained aloof from the controversy . |
| 47 | The second is the language related to the time in question : for example , Old English , Norman French and Medieval Latin . |
| 48 | Up to the time she started school , she was very clinging . |
| 49 | Having regard to the time taken up in travelling , to and from the place of parade , the time taken to perform twelve hours ' duty is spread over seventeen hours . |
| 50 | And they had the time worked out for every policeman the length of time he was allowed to travel from court to home and back again and you added that time to the time you were engaged in court and it was worked out to the minute — worked out officially how long it took the tram . |
| 51 | Pride of place is given to a Conestoga Wagon which dates back to the time the Mellons crossed the Appalachians . |
| 52 | ‘ Looking back now to the time when the site for these premises was chosen , and realising the state of affairs existing in this type of works , it is surprising to me that this process was ever permitted on this site at all ( being figuratively speaking within arms length of the dwellings ) . |
| 53 | Astrologers ( not including medium Jeanne Dixon ) were predicting re-election for President John F Kennedy right up to the time of his assassination . |
| 54 | The explanation for this can not be sought in the tenses of the verbs that the testator has used , for they are all historic with respect to the time the will was made and ought on that basis to refer to no time later than that . |
| 55 | The digesta version , contrary to its usual practice , seems to have struck out more unnecessary detail than the responsa , such as the lengthy description of the debts and the circumlocution referring to the time the will was made . |
| 56 | His terms of land survey and planning are : Estate measuring and mapping 1/ per square acre , measuring land for the content only , six pence per statute acre ; for finishing any old plan of estate in the new method , six pence per statute acre , and six pence for every mile the estate lies distant from Manchester ( as it is necessary to inspect every field , as plowed , pasture , and meadow are differently distinguished , as likewise the fences , whether hedges , walls , cops , dykes , or pales , as likewise hilly ground , etc. ; levelling , dividing , etc. , according to the time and trouble ) . ’ |
| 57 | He sounded people out and found the responses favourable , so he set about to prepare the finest survey to have been carried out on Manchester up to that time and indeed up to the time of Charles Roeder 's article , late in the 19th century . |
| 58 | The epoch of blue shift is usually confined to the time when the object is still inside the event horizon . |
| 59 | Hypnotists working for the police ask an individual , most commonly a witness or a victim , to imagine that he has gone back to the time of the crime . |
| 60 | The Second period is that which starts from the beginning of life and reaches onward to the time when the law of the survival of the fittest with its ruthlessness could no longer serve the aspirations towards increasing happiness that were beginning to creep into the dawning consciousness of primitive man . |