Example sentences of "the time [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One small colony remained all the time on their beach , an isolated solitary place of grey pebbles below greenish breakwaters ; high above them the blind-eyed office blocks glittered pink and yellow in the sun . |
| 32 | Sales are somewhere in between since although there is a structured sales department , individual salesmen operate much of the time on their own . |
| 33 | And I mean I think women tend to be inv having to cope with things like school and er and health and you know they 're a at the grass roots if you like of you know at the receiving end of you know say cuts in in services like that and bus services and just quality of rural life and I mean the quality of life in Blaenau is depopulation and unemployment and you know and and in a sense there is lot of scope for women to break down the barriers of you know cos it is true that the the Councillors they 're supposed to represent the people or whatever tend to be quite well to do they 've done it thank you very much and then oh you know they 've got the time on their hands and they tend to be men and s school ex school teachers ex You know and they 're not having to cope with really situations that go will put them in touch with what it 's like not to have a bus service or not to have proper health care and this sort of thing you know . |
| 34 | Carl changed the time on his watch . |
| 35 | Have you got the time on you please ? |
| 36 | In taking the time on it 's own , erm that that 's not not a problem I would have thought , for most people , cos if they 're making Sunday lunches anyway , then i it 's in the middle of the morning one way or the other . |
| 37 | He took it home last night I w I got it going I got the time on it but I |
| 38 | By now you 'll be out and about all the time on your scooter but , just in case the second Thursday of the month should dawn wet and windy again , I have chosen yours as this month 's Star Letter . |
| 39 | I mean , you slide around half the time on your bottom ( just like Joanne Conway ! ) . |
| 40 | Geoclock UK is a shareware program that shows a coloured map of the earth together with the time and date ( which is based on the time on your PC 's clock ) . |
| 41 | Geoclock UK is a shareware program that shows a coloured map of the earth together with the time and date ( which is based on the time on your PC 's clock ) . |
| 42 | Looking back at those debates on how we could fill in the time on our hands , the novelist Herbert Gold reflected that the Fifties were a time of ‘ happy people with happy problems ’ . |
| 43 | He shows it by being angry and rude all the time to everyone . |
| 44 | Not only were the subjects told of what Dement thought might be the probable results of the regime , but they were provided with a psychiatrist on duty all the time to whom they could report any unusual sensation . |
| 45 | ‘ It seemed so at the time to myself , ’ admitted Edward ruefully . |
| 46 | It could appropriate 100 per cent of the time to its own business and utterly stifle debate by the opposition . |
| 47 | The two men said nothing at the time to their wives , but a day or two later , the question of an evening of cards cropped up . |
| 48 | ‘ With a glut of farming properties on the market in parts of south west England at drastically reduced prices , now is the time for them to buy , ’ Dai Jenkin says . |
| 49 | ‘ You know , there were many things I wanted to do , but I never had the time for them . |
| 50 | She is inferring that when mortals feel secure , and sound in their knowledge of others , then that is the time for them to be unsure of most , because if anything is going to happen , it will happen then . |
| 51 | If Mr Major really wishes to ditch the more arrogant whims of his predecessor , now is the time for him to put his money where his mouth is . |
| 52 | I glanced at my watch , found I had forgotten to adjust it and read the time for him from the digital clock at the base of the instrument panel . |
| 53 | And we 're just looking at the route to In the previous er conditions of service we merely mentioned the time for which you were n't entitled to sick pay and the time after which you were entitled to full sick pay which we defined , we did n't define the route . |
| 54 | And these three are in effect but one matter , showing the certainty of the time for which the lessee shall have the land , and if any of these fail , it is not a good lease , for then there wants certainty . |
| 55 | In this way a pattern mask limits the time for which a target letter is represented in the system , and if the time limitation is severe enough to prevent the target 's code from reaching a lexical output system , then the subject will fail to report the target , even though the target was identified in the sense that its detector in the lexical input system was activated . |
| 56 | Even if the time for which these representations are available is very brief ( because of the word mask ) two representations will still be better than one . |
| 57 | At " low " speeds ( less than 100 steps per second in the example of Fig. 4.1 ) the current is quickly established in the windings when a phase is turned on and stays near its rated value for a substantial part of the time for which the phase is excited . |
| 58 | Firstly , the size of capacitor is dictated by the phase current and the time for which " voltage-boosting " is needed ; large phase currents and long boost times lead to large capacitor values . |
| 59 | The time for which the oesophageal pH was below 4 and 5 after the meal was consumed was calculated as a percentage of the total postprandial recording time . |
| 60 | The smaller the change the longer is the time for which the two solutions remain close , but they never do so indefinitely . |