Example sentences of "[prep] time to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , in an uncanny moment of premonition , I am able to see through the mists of time to Judgement Day . |
| 2 | Rather than all the rare qualities discussed , the person serving young people in the latter part of the century needs to be able to work in a no-nonsense way with young people , to be a good manager prepared to fight for a fair share of the funds , to ensure that staff are able to devote a generous amount of time to users of the services in groups and as individuals , and to ensure that there is a good stock of books and other materials to explore . |
| 3 | From that year onwards , he became progressively more absent from the conduct of daily political affairs , relying as much on the inertia of the system he had created as on his ministers to keep the country running , while he devoted increasing amounts of time to hunting , shooting and fishing . |
| 4 | Bobby and Ian both sacrifice a lot of time to Lisburn 's teenage golfers and it 's beginning to show . |
| 5 | This example illustrates an important consideration which is that not only does the risk of any position increase dramatically with the length of time to maturity but also that the hedge ratio is only valid for very small increments of time . |
| 6 | During the 1960s , under the leadership of Terence O'Neill , the Unionist Parliamentary Party found itself devoting an increasing amount of time to questions of economic and social reform . |
| 7 | So if y if the chemicals will do that over a long period of time to rubber , think what it would do to your skin . |
| 8 | So he manages to dedicate an immense amount of time to people . |
| 9 | When Calder-Marshall and Malcolm Lowry first met it was the latter who felt flattered , but though Calder-Marshall was a generous friend , there is something poignant in Gordon Bowker 's comment in Malcolm Lowry Remembered that he has ‘ given a great deal of time to writing and speaking about him ’ . |
| 10 | Compare : Encouraged by the success of her early publications , Charlotte Brontë gave over increased amounts of time to writing . |
| 11 | W. G. Collingwood describes one of these men Balthazar Puchberger , ( altered in course of time to Puthparker ) whose shaggy or tousled head earned him the nickname of Towsie . |
| 12 | The length of time to disease progression and survival time , both calculated from the date of randomisation , were analysed by the Kaplan-Meier product limit method . |
| 13 | You can automate the use of TIME to time an interval within a batch file . |
| 14 | The French applied the tourniquet just in time to stagger to a winning start . |
| 15 | A visit to our unique museum will transport you back in time to wartime Britain . |
| 16 | Sharp at nine a conch shell sounded and the temple courtyard filled up with Thais , dressed in white trousers with embroidered aprons , chanting and shaking in time to gongs . |
| 17 | Lines 20 to 40 to get the correct time , lines 50 and 60 calculate the number of centi-seconds and set TIME , and lines 110 to 130 convert the value in TIME to hours , minutes and seconds . |
| 18 | The " subsequent actualization " sense of the to infinitive also involves this double position of the support : person as support of the event of the finite verb is represented as prior in time to person as support of the infinitive 's event . |
| 19 | Tonight 's movies are 11 Harrowhouse , an engaging London diamond heist romp with John Gielgud , Trevor Howard and James Mason and Le Petomane where Leonard Rossiter plays an early 20th Century Frenchman who makes a living by farting in time to music . |
| 20 | On the opposite pavement , three West Indian boys waggled their bodies in time to music coming from a nearby shop . |
| 21 | In 45-minute classes infants grapple with walking in time to music , marching , pony-trotting ; facial expressions and gestures are tested , too . |
| 22 | Vocalist Bliss Blood mixes dominatrix chic with rock'n'roll bawdiness , a powerful performance that , although not fully formed , allows the audience to whip up their own fantasies in time to Pain Teens ' alternative progressive/oppressive sonic attack . |
| 23 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |
| 24 | From this darkly humorous curtain-raiser , Scorsese steps back in time to Henry 's adolescence and time spent as a local don 's errand boy . |
| 25 | From this darkly humorous curtain-raiser , Scorsese steps back in time to Henry 's adolescence and time spent as a local don 's errand boy . |
| 26 | The animal with the baton smacked the sleeping animal in time to Midwinter 's staccato pronouncements. from the next room 1 heard a riff of a clarinet and toot of a trombone . |
| 27 | Furthermore , the overall gain in time to progression and length of survival was seen in patients born with and without tumour related symptoms . |
| 28 | It could be called upon at any time and indeed was from time to time . |
| 29 | Spencer 's argument has been banded about from time to time . |
| 30 | Place the container in the dark in a cool place for 8–10 weeks , checking from time to time to see if the water needs topping up . |