Example sentences of "the time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , it should recommend privatising the Tote — a state-owned hangover from the times before commercial betting was legal — and reforming the laws on gambling . |
| 2 | Her love for Maman , with its consuming passion to please , belonged to the times before Maman had , as she now realized , so gallantly followed her love . |
| 3 | He had bought a copy of The Times before he had come to The Randolph that morning , but hitherto had not even glanced at the headlines . |
| 4 | He served as editor of The Times while unable to type , as chairman of the Arts Council while unable to drive , and was appointed to the Broadcasting Standards Council unaware that one of Britain 's most popular television shows was named Jim 'll Fix It ( ‘ Who 's Jim ? ’ he once asked ) . |
| 5 | It is a sign of the times that despite the cost research is continuing . |
| 6 | Hakim was used to transactions where ‘ all parameters are not known , you leave it for the times that things are known ’ , but this business proceeded on a plane that was ‘ intangible ’ . |
| 7 | Howarth probably expected a lynch party : that morning , leading members of a group of 2,000 expatriate scientists wrote in a letter to The Times that it may be too late to halt the brain drain and decline in morale unless the Government shows a real commitment to research . |
| 8 | It was , incidentally , a journey of about 20 miles , and it is an interesting reflection on the times that no one saw any danger in an 11-year-old embarking on such a trip alone . |
| 9 | It is , no doubt , a sign of the times that the flow has long since dried up . |
| 10 | Mr Lamont said in The Times that he was forced to leave a meeting with Jacques Delors in Brussels last Friday ‘ to answer questions about whether I had bought a bottle of wine in Paddington ’ . |
| 11 | These are the times that a salad lunch comes into its own . |
| 12 | He said in a letter to The Times that ministers had to leave it up to the court whether or not the documents should be disclosed . |
| 13 | A traditionally minded bishop had given the advertisements a welcome boost by complaining in the pulpit and in The Times that the campaign glorified adultery as well as Trumper 's Tea Bags . |
| 14 | Rosing told the Times that the new Sun subsidiary is in the ‘ advanced development ’ stages , and that finished products were more than two years away , although people close to the project reportedly say working models already exist . |
| 15 | It was , in fact , the speculative atmosphere of the times that led to the takeover of RJR Nabisco by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts , at the time one of the leading leveraged buyout firms . |
| 16 | It is a sign of the times that Mr Franco 's plan is being praised more for what it did not do than what it did . |
| 17 | But it is a sign of the times that a Latin American minister even wishes to make such a boast . |
| 18 | I am sure that , despite his letter in your May issue ( Arm 's length or arm 's twist ) John Mallet really understands as well as the next man that , when I wrote in my letter of 10 March in The Times that ‘ we do not apply the arm 's length principle to the national museums and galleries ’ , I was saying no more than that there is no funding body between the Office of Arts and Libraries ( now the Department for the National Heritage ) and the national museums and galleries as there is between the Government and the subsidised theatres and performing arts bodies . |
| 19 | Although he sounds the traditional warning that all electronics are aids to ‘ proper ’ navigation it is perhaps a sign of the times that he admits that many now see the chart-and- pencil methods as aids to the electronics … |
| 20 | And there 's so much voluntary work to be done if people have got spare time to go and help but , I do n't know whether it 's the sign of the times that people only want to do jobs for monetary gain . |
| 21 | And indeed it 's a sign of the times that I speak not with a mitre metaphorically upon my head but perhaps the glengarry of the convenorship of the Central Council of ACTS and therefore I am in part your servant here . |
| 22 | Before we once-and-for-all set up our new tank ( and next month look at tank decor ) , it 's a sign of the times that we have to pause and consider the single most important item in our tank — water . |
| 23 | The times that followed , they were almost as bad … and as he grew older , he became aware of the deep wounds his mother had suffered . |
| 24 | Dr James Swire , who had lost a daughter at Lockerbie and was the leading spokesman for the British families , told The Times that he still believed the atrocity had been carried out by the PFLP — GC , acting as mercenaries for the Iranians , although he was anxious to see the two Libyans brought to trial by any means short of force . |
| 25 | All the times that you need to arrive at you will find on the timetable . |
| 26 | But it is a sign of the times that in many universities around the world this kind of approach is actually ahead of the British system , largely because language awareness can be built into reading courses as part of the overall language-learning curriculum . |
| 27 | The times that has come out of your mouths . |
| 28 | Now I 'm not able to do tutorials for you this term at the times that you 're available cos they clash with lectures that I do er for another course . |
| 29 | Ipswich for example , was providing a full service and has now actually gone to the times that we 're providing . |
| 30 | In 1913 a Mr R. Lydekker , Fellow of the Royal Society , claimed in The Times that he and his gardener had heard a cuckoo on February 6 in Hertfordshire : ‘ There is not the slightest doubt . ’ |