Example sentences of "on the time " in BNC.

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1 Their very excellence makes heavy demands on the time and energy of their teaching faculty , so people who stay long in such places rarely produce the books and articles commonly published by their counterparts in bigger universities , and are therefore often little known outside their own institutions .
2 Decide on the time off the diet , plan proper balanced meals with the odd luxury for this period , and do not go wild and regain your lost weight .
3 This would have two effects on the time required .
4 ‘ Looking back on the time when I was really big , around 1979 , I was the saddest and most miserablest I 've ever been .
5 But there was to be no resting , particularly with Jeffrey Archer keeping an eye on the time .
6 It is peripheral to the interests of the Highland Board , and it makes considerable demands on the time of Board Staff .
7 There is , I believe , a strong case for encouraging more administrators from the developing countries to participate in seminars of that sort , while at the same time trying to reduce the very heavy demand that would make on the time of people primarily engaged in other tasks .
8 On all flights you 'll receive full in-flight service , a snack or meal depending on the time of day , plus duty-free and bar service .
9 Depending on the time of year , there will be pigs , lambs , goats , rabbits , guinea pigs , geese , ducks and poultry .
10 Depending on the time of year , the Chelt at this point is often no more than a trickle , although after heavy rain it can rapidly become a muddy torrent , rushing through the fields ( and now beneath the M5 motorway ) , via Butlers Court , to the next mill at Boddington .
11 After Drew answered questions concisely on the time taken for the application and removal of make-up , a rather over-zealous coroner once more closed the proceedings .
12 As to the possibility of the crew shooting some extra footage whilst at the museum , I am afraid this would have to be dependent on the time taken for the shots we plan for use in our Project Video .
13 Indeed there are those who rely to such an extent on the time they gain for reading on trains that travelling by road is not an option .
14 Depending on the time of a flood , root crops can be completely destroyed if submerged for more than twenty-four hours .
15 The essence of his difficulty was that time and change imply that the same thing can have contradictory properties — it can be , say , hot and cold , depending on the time — and this conflicted with the rule that nothing can possess incompatible attributes .
16 This openness also showed that in relation to science the consultative process revealed massive support for the working party 's view on the time to be devoted to science and on the position of balanced science but that the Council , with some reluctance , made recommendations in accordance with the Secretary of State 's different view .
17 Periods of practice should be spaced with short rest periods in between , but much will depend on the time available and the opportunities provided on the ward .
18 The American Adventure opens at 10.00am and closes between 5.00pm and 7.00pm depending on the time of year .
19 The cost of a half-hour meeting varies from $325 to $5000 depending on the time of day and on the exact nature of the video conference .
20 The capacity rules are just part of a now long list of rules and regulations that surround university life , and make extra demands on the time and freedom of academics .
21 There are enormous pressures on the time of the Administration and Commons and it is not always possible to give to Bills the leisured consideration desirable for good drafting and effective debate .
22 On the subject of delays in responding to minutes , Mr Holden pointed out that speeding up the process would also add to costs , and that some delay arose because reports had to be considered by the Institute as well as by the JMU ; any suggestions on how to cut down on the time involved would be gratefully received .
23 Being sick can bring with it a degree of sympathy and attention that is greatly valued by more isolated individuals , and they may believe that if their health improves they will lose out on the time and attention that is given to them on the basis of their illness .
24 A former sales manager looking back on the time he had to juggle with the moral and immoral balls of corporate demands said that :
25 It had been ten past five when I had last checked on the time .
26 Because U and Th are more incompatible than Pb during mantle melting , limits can be placed on the time needed to generate the offsets shown in Fig. 2 c , given an upper limit for the source U/Pb ratio corresponding to the measured values for the lavas ( Table 1 ) .
27 The responses could be analysed for differences in opinion depending on the time since the respondent had suffered from the illness or between those who had ever and those who had never suffered from the illness in question .
28 A few hundred real life words on Cronenberg 's Naked Lunch ; or was it a few thousand touched words on the time I had lunch , naked with Buffy Sainte-Marie ?
29 In that way , you get the best return on the time and effort you put into revision .
30 ‘ At present I look to the judiciary for advice on the time to be served to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence and to the Parole Board for advice on risk .
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