Example sentences of "[conj] in the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uzuncarsili follows much the same line , though perhaps in an attempt to salvage something of the Taskopruzade/Mecdi story he suggests in effect that in that story Mehmed I ( 1413–21 ) should be read for Bayezid I : he thus concludes that Molla Fenari left for Karaman either in the confused period following Ankara or in the time of Mehmed I , in the manner described by Taskopruzade . |
| 2 | As a rule the advances occurred either when she was alone with one or other teacher during a free period , or in the time between the end of school and the journey home . |
| 3 | I judge that in the time it takes the lift to creep the height of the building I have to be out the door and on my way . |
| 4 | ‘ Mr Stevens , I may not have been a housekeeper for long , but I would say that in the time I have been , my abilities have attracted some very generous remarks . ’ |
| 5 | She found that in the time allowed four-fifths of the adult pairs conversed , looked or smiled at each other . |
| 6 | One has the impression that in the time that followed the war , compared with the pre-war period , there occurred a change which might be called a loosening of manners . |
| 7 | The Council of 500 was drawn from the demes in proportion to their population ( see p. 112 ) and it is now known ( for instance ) that in the time of Kleisthenes no more than one-quarter of known Athenians can be attributed to city demes . |
| 8 | ‘ It is said that in the time of Shang they would take a tortoise shell and cover it with ink , then throw it into a fire . |
| 9 | As seen above , for example , there appear to have been two " regular " as distinct from any possible " ceremonial " investitures , apparently called and defined just below — while Abdurrahman Efendi was Rumeli kazasker ( 958–64/1551 7 ) , namely in 959 and 963 ; and Ata'i states that in the time of his successor , Molla Hamid ( Hamid ) , Rumeli kazasker from 964/1557 to 974/5566 , were decreed in Dhu " l-Hijja 968/August-September 1561 and in Sha'ban 973/March 1566 : thus the period 958 to 974 saw in 959 , 963 , 968 , and 973 . |
| 10 | I hope that in the time of the consultation they actually begin to take on board the fact that we 're talking about human beings . |
| 11 | We mentioned above that inflation creates additional administrative costs to households and firms , both in the search for the most favourably priced goods and in the time and effort involved in determining and disseminating new prices . |
| 12 | He just had time for a quick coffee ( it was now or never ) , and in the time I took to refill the kettle and put coffee into two clean mugs , I 'd told him . |
| 13 | And in the time it 's taken you to read this , it 's sold out . |
| 14 | Earl Godwine held it , and in the time of King Edward , as now , it was assessed for 12 hides . |
| 15 | Opened in 1846 this section had been early superseded and closed and in the time of Mr Mester 's childhood comprised only an overgrown formation . |
| 16 | To take care that in ploughing , the furrows are sufficiently ample and not hurried over , when good land is to be ploughed for fallow , the ploughmen to take care that they do not dip into bad soil , and in the time of rebinning not to go too deep , but to plough lightly just to destroy the weeds , lest if wet weather ensue when they come to sow the seed will be deposited in mud instead of solid soil . |
| 17 | Why was it so important to get Steiner back and in the time scale indicated ? |
| 18 | At this moment of consummation ( and the image is surely sexual as well ) , and in the time of relief following , the poet gives up his struggle and allows the ‘ sacred river ’ to draw him to its ‘ lifeless ’ conclusion : to struggle for control in the river is to be controlled by it . |
| 19 | President , as delegates will know this is my first report to Congress from the Public Services Section and in the time available could I warn delegates and onwards to eight hundred thousand members , their families and all their friends and the eight million members of the T U C and their families and their friends , a sizeable group of British people who , President , now consider theirselves as past , present and future patients of the N H S , and rightly so . |
| 20 | Changes can be made in the look of any step not by a change in the tempo but in the time signature : for example , dancing a pas de basque to a 2/4 or 6/8 instead of the usual 3/4 . |
| 21 | There will be a few overcast or windless days when the batteries will not be adequately recharged and a traditional generator will have to be called upon , but in the time they are charging , wind generators and solar panels will easily pay for themselves in saved fuel costs . |
| 22 | Reference to the both Taskopruzade 's original and Mecdi 's translation , makes it difficult to understand how such confusion has arisen ; for although relatively few facts are given there about Abdulkerim , and although it is impossible to specify with any assurance the precise dates of his Muftilik , one thing at least is clearly stated : that Abdulkerim was Mufti not in the time of Bayezid II ( 886–918/1481–1512 ) but in the time of Mehmed II ( 855–86/1451–81 ) . |
| 23 | Some hon. Members referred to the issue , but in the time available I say only that we all accept that second homes present a threat in parts of Wales . |
| 24 | And and he took quite a lot of them but in the time that |
| 25 | But in the time it takes me to do this , the incoming train has reached the other end of the station platform . |
| 26 | But in the time it takes these children to ask for a drink of water an accomplice has slipped in the back and helped himself . |
| 27 | Of course that is n't all that 's involved in doing physics , not at all — there are other aspects of actually having ideas about physics , but in the time they will see some pattern emerging within that experiment . |
| 28 | It is even possible that James saw this programme as a means of creating a reservoir of manpower , from which — as in the time of Judas Maccabeus — an army might be created . |
| 29 | Firstly , in my setting could the interventions listed be applied with the same likely success as in the time period and setting reflected in the league table ? |
| 30 | And , Newby went on , the superior class would have their baggage wheeled to and installed on the train , tipping the porters in the process , much as in the time of the last of the Tsars . |