Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was another sound , too , a strange noise for the bright time of noonday . |
| 2 | Is the certificate worth the extra time and considerable effort involved on top of implementing a TQM programme ? |
| 3 | These trains cut twenty hours and thirty minutes off the running time of the 2299-mile journey between Chicago and Los Angeles when they came into service in 1954 . |
| 4 | ‘ The average train may leave 10 minutes late , but it has been proved that the average car journey sets off at least 40 minutes after the announced time . ’ |
| 5 | Chartered trains were due to leave Prague yesterday evening , but had failed to appear more than two hours after the appointed time . |
| 6 | Harris was duly executed , being pronounced dead at 6.21 a.m. local time , six hours after the scheduled time of the execution . |
| 7 | The following version is useful to give children the opportunity to channel excess energy — everybody is in action for the whole time it is being played . |
| 8 | There was a clear appreciation of the right time to strike . |
| 9 | They had passed out as a result of the good time had by all and did not come to until the evening . |
| 10 | In these , males are much larger than females and take much longer to sexually mature - perhaps the result of the increased time spent in competition with other males to take over a group of females . |
| 11 | It is a convention in Elizabethan drama that slander is always believed , which can be explained perhaps from the necessities of the limited time available , or is perhaps a truth about life ( how many of us instantly disbelieve bad report ? ) . |
| 12 | These are the essential demands of the present time . |
| 13 | Otherwise a point at Hamilton the following week will earn Nicholl 's men entry into the big time . |
| 14 | ‘ Robyn , you 've got to understand — Mark was under a lot of pressure ; as I 've said , this was his first break into the big time , a great deal was expected of him . ’ |
| 15 | Indeed , in order to squeeze all the required National Curriculum subjects into the available time , a cross-curricular approach may be essential . |
| 16 | ‘ When the Department of Health at the turn of the year invited bids for the money available nationally we could put in a very detailed bid in the tight time scale . ’ |
| 17 | He had put on weight in the short time since going to Mrs Gracie 's ; he was plump . |
| 18 | Sometimes both partners have started new relationships in the intervening time . |
| 19 | This policy has been international in scope , as was presaged by LIFFE 's early attempt to use its niche in the European time zone to create a market in US T-bond futures , for which the CBoT had established the world 's most successful futures contract in the US time zone . |
| 20 | So its recorded history progresses without a break to the present time , mainly as a culinary herb , but also having some medicinal value , as well as cosmetic and domestic use . |
| 21 | She had the light on the whole time and the radio blaring . |
| 22 | In the future , it might be possible for us to reset our body clock to the new time zone quickly , by taking a pill containing melatonin at the appropriate time of day . |
| 23 | Although we can quickly reset our watches , our body clock takes many days to adjust , and so instructs the pineal to produce melatonin at the wrong time of day , causing jet-lag . |
| 24 | I 'm sure you 'll agree it 's a matter of going into the right stock at the right time . |
| 25 | With the current cuts in housing expenditure , however , very few tenants are likely to be rehoused from the lists at the present time . |
| 26 | While his explanations do not seem clearly to separate older arguments about managers under- or over-investing from the impact of the business-cycle stage itself , it does seem clear that investment at the right time , i.e. early in the product life-cycle , does lead to increased ROI if management is able to establish its product in the market place and control costs . |
| 27 | The need for insolvency at the relevant time does not apply to transactions at an undervalue entered into less than two years before the individual is adjudged bankrupt . |
| 28 | Because of that , it is important that we take the right steps at the right time to ensure the right results . |
| 29 | Darlington police want to speak to anyone who may have seen suspicious activity around the health authority offices at the estimated time of the incident . |
| 30 | By some terrific fluke Richard came face to face with his future at the precise time he most needed to see it . |