Example sentences of "time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not use time as an excuse , he wrote . |
| 2 | This role he discharged with great success and it was probably the most notable feature of his time as Treasury Solicitor . |
| 3 | In the semi-darkness the houses around the village and the church in the centre of the green stood out like monuments with their shadows changing their shapes from time to time as a cloud obscured part of the moon . |
| 4 | I just got into the trench in time as a few explosions were occuring in several parts of the orchard . |
| 5 | Using lean production , the authors found the Japanese required just over half the engineering time , half the number of people , and only two-thirds the lead time as their European rivals to produce similar cars . |
| 6 | Pininfarina , just across the aisle from Italdesign , is crying out for Vauxhall to take a similar level of interest in its Lotus Carlton-powered Chronos , making a second show appearance but this time as a fully engineered runner . |
| 7 | Pop singer Rod Stewart took inordinate pride in his brief time as a professional with Brentford and would make well-publicized appearances to support Scotland . |
| 8 | As short a time as a few weeks previously she had been , when not bored , repelled by his music . |
| 9 | The Princess found herself pigeon holed for a long time as a result of those early associations , but they were nevertheless a useful apprenticeship . |
| 10 | Lady Hamilton ( 1941 , That Hamilton Woman in US ) , which Korda made in America with Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier , works most of the time as a love story , but the messages that constantly obtrude about men whose ‘ insane ambition ’ makes them want to destroy what others had built are not organic to the main narrative . |
| 11 | By May , Kieslowski was back in Cannes , this time as a member of Wim Wenders ' Jury . |
| 12 | Mr Clay added : ‘ I have spent 35 years serving the nursing profession , most of that time as a member of the College . |
| 13 | In 1944 , under the impetus of a wave of strikes in the mines , the British Trotskyist movement was united for the first time as the Revolutionary Communist Party , anticipating the imminent collapse of capitalism in the West and Stalinism in Russia . |
| 14 | Morrissey is needed , not as an ombudsman , or a figure of the eighties , but as a horrified figure against the eighties , who has turned his back on the march of pop time as the last keeper of the sanctuary of self-pity , apartness , exile ’ ( David Stubbs ) . |
| 15 | Sir William Pickering was Knight Marshal to Henry VIII , and when he died in 1542 he left Oswaldkirk to his 24-year-old son , an extremely handsome and distinguished courtier and diplomat , brave and wise as well , and considered at one time as a suitor for Queen Elizabeth . |
| 16 | Cherry Vanilla was doing nothing — she was eating fruit and breaking out all the time as a result , Jane was doing nothing too — she 'd started a group called Queen Elizabeth which played little , low-life funky bars on the Lower Eastside , Tony Zanetta was working coding , which is a very ignominious job that out-of-work actors do in New York , and I was working at 16 Magazine as a tea boy . |
| 17 | Mr Bolona is equally welcome in financial circles in North America , where he worked for a time as a consultant on Latin American debt . |
| 18 | Last week Mr Chatichai again offered General Chaovalit a job , this time as defence minister and deputy prime minister . |
| 19 | The CO took his time as if savouring a titbit of information certain to delight its recipient , ‘ As you know , camp breaks up in a day or two . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ They 're Bebe 's kids ! ’ adds Hurricane , who has served time as the Beastie Boys ' DJ . |
| 21 | So we are talking in general terms about being willing to share our time , energy , space and care , particularly with people who have been recently bereaved through some major form of loss , maybe for a shod period of time while they readjust , maybe for a long time as the person or people involved learn to face life 's vicissitudes alone . |
| 22 | ‘ Refreshing , ’ she euphemistically called the British climate she was about to face for the first time as a ‘ star ’ . |
| 23 | The date of the coronation — an event regarded at the time as a rushed and shabby affair — has inspired comment , for it was the 13th , the thirtieth anniversary of the battle of Flodden . |
| 24 | The Rough Wooing was to continue , not this time as a series of devastating raids , but by seizing and garrisoning Scottish fortresses as the basis for English control , and by Somerset 's own comprehensive victory over the Scots at Pinkie in September 1547 . |
| 25 | He has also been accused in both Serbian and Croatian newspapers of working at one time as a hitman for the Yugoslav secret police . |
| 26 | There seems no reason why the heir to a title should not enter the Lords before time as a life peer . |
| 27 | Those who spend time as a hospital in-patient for dental or maxilla-facial treatment get £50 a day . |
| 28 | Back Up the Hearse and Let Them Sniff the Flowers is based on his own time as a water-filter salesman , ringing on doorbells and brow-beating mug-punters into believing that their lives wo n't be complete without the little gizmo on offer ( at £230 plus VAT ) . |
| 29 | Mr Abu Sharif called former President Jimmy Carter , who has contacts with the PLO from his time as a Third World mediator . |
| 30 | What 's more , the engine is much the same as that in the 1935 15-series cars , and Citroen 's engines were never as far ahead of their time as the rest of the car . |