Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] time [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only for the time being . |
| 2 | The hidden curriculum may transmit messages not only about the time perspective of tasks , but about identification with them , and in particular the non-identification that is implied by the idea of scepticism . |
| 3 | So for the time being it would be prudent to treat money as a major variable in our relationship with crime and conformity . |
| 4 | The pack contains twelve action booklets , one for each month , together with a time management pamphlet explaining how to make better use of your time and how to utilise the monthly work books . |
| 5 | Should they wish to complete the programme students should make arrangements to do so within the time limits specified . |
| 6 | If they wish to cancel any of the rooms allocated they must do so within the time limit set by the hotel or they will be billed for them . |
| 7 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
| 8 | DNA changes by biological evolution only on a time scale of millions of years , but our powers of destruction are increasing on a time scale for the evolution of information , which is now only twenty or thirty years . |
| 9 | She 's been having an affair with Theo Sykes , and it turns out they were in Paris together at the time Puddephat was murdered . |
| 10 | The shadows had grown long by the time Sandy McGlashan came back from Anderson 's howff . |
| 11 | And , as she had invited her to have another look around , it was almost seven o'clock by the time Leith turned into the select avenue of her present home . |
| 12 | but five pound on putting that away definitely , every week , as it 's all paid petrol money , so now I 've got eighty pound , eighty pound is in me , me , one of me purses and that is , it has on , there again , I mean everything , not a lot , if you 'd to go in you 'd see , it 'd have a , it 'd have erm petrol money , it 's eighty pound , now I 'm saving that so by the time aunty Mary comes I shall have probably a hundred pounds in that |
| 13 | I spend most of my time working while my wife spends most of the time shopping but erm |
| 14 | But there is no further time for speculation and reflection on the Enlightenment , because one of the false views of humanity ( the collectivist kind ) , after ticking away like a time bomb , explodes in a political event of such fury and consequence that the gentle yet élitist world of the Enlightenment philosophers is destroyed for ever . |
| 15 | It 's almost as if Hook Norton Brewery were locked away in a time warp ; even in the heart of the brewery , the steam engine which runs it is still there . |
| 16 | This is not an experiment that can ever be done , although some people assume that certain remote and isolated faunas , such as those of Australia and Madagascar , can be treated as if they were ancient , as if a trip to Australia were like a trip backwards in a time machine . |
| 17 | It was shortly before the time Luke usually arrived on Fridays , and up until today she would have made some excuse to Florian , but reviviscent pride demanded a gesture . |
| 18 | If hon. Members who are called before 7 o'clock keep broadly to the time limit , it may be possible , in the interests of the whole House , for the occupant of the Chair to relax that limit later in the debate . |
| 19 | ‘ But think when they came here — just at the time Liam Shakespeare disappeared — and — ‘ |
| 20 | On the assumption that the equipment a hundred years ago was not as efficient at finding gold as today 's modern machinery , he hired some plant and employed a geologist and found a lot of gold in those old spoil heaps — just at the time gold rose in value on the world markets . |
| 21 | ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor . |
| 22 | But already at the time Attlee was speaking the situation was changing again . |
| 23 | His men had taken power in the province that summer of 1922 , just around the time Fantina was born , a few months before the Leader reached the capital on his famous march . |
| 24 | Once upon a time magistrates had been dull , stolid figures , worthy but uninspiring , above all remote and anonymous . |
| 25 | Once upon a time Camille would have dipped her oar in here : she would have turned on Brian for attacking her mother or chided her mother in no uncertain terms for being a drunken slut . |
| 26 | Once upon a time school teachers who climbed might take a favoured few pupils to the crags in the Lagonda or Alvis . |
| 27 | Once upon a time man lived by hunting and by gathering . |
| 28 | It seems that once upon a time OS/2 was going to be the real version of Windows , but Microsoft changed its mind and decided to go it alone . |
| 29 | Once upon a time teams from Britain and all over the world were seen under the lights . |
| 30 | Once upon a time muezzins had had to climb such towers to call the people to prayer , the little round room at the top giving resonance , enlarging the human voice . |