Example sentences of "the time [prep] our " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back at those debates on how we could fill in the time on our hands , the novelist Herbert Gold reflected that the Fifties were a time of ‘ happy people with happy problems ’ . |
| 2 | The time for , the time for our Health Service , the time for the rest of the hospitals in this country is now . |
| 3 | November is the time for our big Rally at the Crystal Palace Sports Centre ; this year it will be on Saturday the 24th . |
| 4 | I think we ca n't do justice to the point you 've raised in the time at our disposal , but it is a very important issue . |
| 5 | That reminds me of the time at our branch they 're doing a visit , and they did n't come down my isle , and they started to walk out , so I said excuse me , have you come to look at my department or not ? |
| 6 | This we did , for in about an hour and a quarter from the time of our beginning the ascent , we found ourselves on the top of this dreadful precipice , and in possession of some very uncommon plants … ’ |
| 7 | As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness , |
| 8 | the time of mistakes , the time of our words . |
| 9 | At the time of our research , Shetlanders seemed to share the view that the area was either in a state of supersaturation with new housing , or else nearing that state . |
| 10 | At the time of our research one of the two most widely acknowledged and apparent problems for Shetlanders was one which was formulated in public and private discussion as good agricultural land going for new ( incomers ' ) housing . |
| 11 | Since there is such a difference between the two documents , and since the Dunrossness District Plan was designed for immediate public consumption ( the Structurn Plan had not been disseminated widely at the time of our research , June , 1978 — January , 1979 ) one could suggest that the tenor of the document reflects the desire to underplay any potential conflicts between Shetlanders and incomers . |
| 12 | It is regarded as worthy of Christians to feed the starving ; to desist from war during the time of our dear Lord 's Nativity . ’ |
| 13 | Improvements in firms ' procedures were deemed necessary in many of the firms the Joint Monitoring Unit ( JMU ) visited , but in many cases firms were already implementing them by the time of our visits . |
| 14 | Credit Data told us that their policy was that only information about people under the same name should be passed where there was any possibility of multiple occupancy at a given address , but we felt that at least at the time of our visit this policy might not be clearly understood by the operators themselves , who might give information about people with other names at the given address , too . |
| 15 | Which is why , by the time of our story , there was a tangle of some two hundred satellite habitats , including five dozen tubes ; fourteen platforms ; seven wheels ; sixteen miscellaneous unclassifiables , including casinos on immobilized system ships , crates , and permanent accidents ; and three ziggurats of the Eladeldi — all in Terran orbit , besides the poor old neglected Moon . |
| 16 | As epistemic breaks go , however , it seems to be a slow one : Foucault attributes its hesitancy to a fundamental reluctance to think difference rather than the reassuring form of the identical : it is , he comments , ‘ as if we were afraid to conceive of the Other in the time of our own thought ’ . |
| 17 | They called on Mr Walter Campbell and in their " A Highland Tour " published in 1845 reported that " at the time of our visit , as we learned afterwards , he was close to the painful discovery which , it was said , was to him as unexpected as it was unwelcome a discovery of his utter insolvency ! |
| 18 | They called on Mr Walter Campbell and in their " A Highland Tour " published in 1845 reported that " at the time of our visit , as we learned afterwards , he was close to the painful discovery which , it was said , was to him as unexpected as it was unwelcome a discovery of his utter insolvency ! |
| 19 | At the time of our third report , in May 1987 , the LEA had no written policy on home-school links , and no officer carried overall responsibility in this area . |
| 20 | Certainly at the time of our taking over , the the number of operatives would have been not far short of a hundred . |
| 21 | At the time of our first visit the construction of the large oil terminal was at the planning stage . |
| 22 | He has been convicted of car crimes 16 times and had one charge pending at the time of our discussions three months ago . |
| 23 | At the time of our patient 's presentation a survey of published works did not show any cases with both conditions , but subsequently a single case has been reported , suggesting that any association is likely to be weak . |
| 24 | We bring the time of our people , resources in kind , and skills and expertise . |
| 25 | I conclude that this book could most definitely happen , in fact it is happening all the time in our lives although we are protected by our parents who are conditioned to life . |