Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to that , John Prescott was mentioned , and John could not attend the meetings that he does around the country if he did not have the facility to be able to be away from Parliament during times when erm , there are votes that need to be taken . |
| 2 | ‘ If you , several centuries ago , diverted the route through time that the Spinward Corporation would have taken … ’ she began . |
| 3 | And she had devised a hook for time with Lucy . |
| 4 | Cedric Downes had himself been on the phone for about five minutes , trying frustratedly to contact British Rail about times of trains to London that day ; yet he could have had little notion of the irrational and frenetic impatience of the man who was trying to contact him ; a man who was betweenwhiles cursing the incompetence of British Telecom and bemoaning the cussedness of the Universe in general . |
| 5 | He stayed close to fellow Rhodes Scholars Strobe Talbot ( now an editorial writer for Time magazine ) , Frank Aller and Richard Stearns ( now a Massachusetts judge ) . |
| 6 | This attitude must change , for man 's progress through time must inevitably confer upon him the right to use his powers of reason and logical thinking to build for himself a satisfying religion based on a credible ‘ god ’ . |
| 7 | Females associate with only a single male during times when they are most likely to conceive . |
| 8 | His first books were written while he was a correspondent for Time magazine , which assigned him to cover the Far East . |
| 9 | Thus there is a pattern not only of territorial movement and campaigning , but of interaction through time , politics and dynastic struggles . |
| 10 | Although there is usually a link between time and resources , this is not always the case and adding more staff can be counterproductive at certain stages of a job . |
| 11 | Obviously , both the concrete and social forms of this labour change through time . |
| 12 | Instead , longitudinal studies incorporating a time dimension are also required for supplying historical perspective , together with a sharper appreciation of change through time and the conditions which generate it . |
| 13 | Erm Eric in , in Manchester from where he comes is extremely well known obviously within the G M B but his record he 's one of the individuals in the trade union movement that I think are becoming somewhat of a rarity these days I know that many of us when we first started in the movement were very easily able , and , and very relaxed about combining trade union and political activities together but of course as time goes on and , you do tend to become more involved in the one and the other , because of course it 's all time-consuming but I can honestly say that in Eric 's case he 's never deviated one iota from his commitment both to the trade union , this union in particular , and to the Party never deviated at all . |
| 14 | Thistle play for time with 900 minutes to go Partick Thistle 1 St Johnstone 1 |
| 15 | For example , it will be insufficient to have merely a single deictic index for time of utterance , yet how many time indices we need seems to depend on the utterance itself : ( 100 ) Do n't shoot now , but now , now and now ! |
| 16 | In contrast to peoples who believe that their communities have existence through time through rules of corporation , the Piaroa do not understand ‘ community ’ and the relationships of which it is comprised as a political given that allows for continuity through time . |
| 17 | This bases the fore for time t+J on the average of several past values of the actual sales figure achieved . |
| 18 | When they resumed on the third afternoon after time lost for rain , they lost quick wickets , and at 214 for 6 seemed to have wasted the advantage . |
| 19 | Each aspect of a project must have a plan or standard to be monitored , against which are the budget for cost , programme for time and brief for performance . |
| 20 | Communists were later to justify this as Stalin 's bid for time . |
| 21 | The Government also seems to favour a cut off time of 8pm , after which children should not be in a bar , but seems open to persuasion as to whether the Licensing Justices should have power to extend that time . |
| 22 | Perhaps maybe a cut off time for when a meeting should finish , which I think we 'd all dearly love , maybe that very common in business , maybe it 's about time we put it into council life as well , so those of progress , not trying to make people feel guilty but trying to serve the people they represent . |
| 23 | A $1.5 billion deal between Time Warner and US West indicates that many cable-TV and telephone firms prefer to collaborate , rather than compete , in building America 's ‘ information superhighway ’ Will the government let them ? |
| 24 | As we have seen , the Conservative Party made much , prior to the ‘ 79 General Election , of the increase in crime during time in office of the 1974–79 Labour Government . |
| 25 | Robert Jordan 's fantasy series The Wheel Of Time has a growing band of fans , who will enjoy his latest , THE DRAGON REBORN ( Orbit £5.99 ) . |
| 26 | At a time when his life was unsettled and the future uncertain , he returns to the world of his childhood and , in the course of the poem , meditates upon the need for release from the wheel of time itself , " the trailing/Consequence of further days and hours " . |
| 27 | Robert Jordan 's Wheel of Time series keeps on turning , getting bigger and bigger with each title ; the A format of The Shadow Rising ( Orbit , £5.99 ) , comes the month , number four , and a big seller in hardcover . |
| 28 | Plato 's intimate association of time and the universe led him to regard time as being actually produced by the revolutions of the celestial sphere . |
| 29 | In place of Aristotle 's association of time with motion and his appeal to the uniform daily revolution of the heavens as its basis , St Augustine turned , not as Plotinus had done to the concept of the ‘ world-soul ’ , but to the human mind for the ultimate source and standard of time . |
| 30 | Consequently , as Needham has pointed out , in so far as Chinese natural philosophy ‘ was committed to thinking of time in separate compartments or boxes , perhaps it was more difficult for a Galileo to arise who should uniformise time into an abstract geometrical co-ordinate , a continuous dimension amenable to mathematical handling ’ . |