Example sentences of "to the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is seen in The Facts to belong to the times in which the writer lived when he wrote the novel , when opposition to the Vietnam War , and to a President Johnson perceived as monstrous , took to the street-wisdom of a farcical obscenity . |
| 2 | I thought about writing a letter to The Times and telling them about an important man who beat up his children . |
| 3 | He was proving himself to be not only an accurate witness to the times , but a respected one , too . |
| 4 | Unlike many people , Rita did not write to The Times deploring modern standards of English . |
| 5 | He was referring to the times at Achnacarry when I would on occasion meet the trainees returning from a speed march and pipe them the last two miles back to the camp . |
| 6 | A total of 364 economists , almost one for each day of the year , dispatched a formal letter to The Times denouncing the government 's economic approach as ruinous — though they were soon matched by a similarly large number of economists who were prepared to endorse it . |
| 7 | According to The Times 's leader ‘ What is Thatcherism Now ? ’ on 16 January 1984 : |
| 8 | Yet , according to The Times ( 7 February 1984 ) , ‘ The first most Cabinet ministers knew was when Sir Geoffrey Howe announced the decision in the Commons on January 25 . ’ |
| 9 | Conran suspects that the current vogue for de-mergers will eventually turn full circle and there will be a return to the times when it was thought that , |
| 10 | Of greater interest to The Times was the attendance of the King at the match for the first time and the fact that a cuckoo had been heard in the vicinity of the Crystal Palace . |
| 11 | In only a very few pages , we have left the twentieth century far behind and discovered that these two descend from the Lombardic heroes mentioned in the Old English poem Widsith ( Aelfwin and Eadwin ) ; and since Aelfvin means ‘ Elf-friend ’ , we are not surprised to find ourselves drifting further back to the times when elves still walked the earth , before Numenor ( the Atlantis of the Tolkien mythology ) had sunk beneath the waves . |
| 12 | It could not afford to be seen as a drain on the taxpayer and it should be relevant to the times . |
| 13 | Her mother was so worried she wrote to The Times asking , ‘ Is it fair for any human being , regardless of circumstances , to be treated in this way ? ’ |
| 14 | A letter to The Times of 1923 , for example , drew attention to ‘ the dangers arising from the Americanization of the British Empire from the excessive number of American motion pictures shown ’ , but things came to a head in 1924 . |
| 15 | Benjamin Cotton replied to the Times advertisement and undertook to ‘ preserve the mahogany doors ( still in fine fettle ) , to turn the pantry and store room into a servants ’ hall , and the brew house and cart stable into loose boxes . ’ |
| 16 | The day of action on 22 September brought about 60,000 people on to the streets of London and , according to The Times , it was the ‘ biggest revolt for a decade ’ . |
| 17 | Kim Philby had been a war correspondent in Salamanca , sending dispatches to The Times . |
| 18 | Meanwhile Roy Thomson , once a Scots Canadian radio salesman , bought his way via The Scotsman newspaper and Scottish Television to the proprietorial chair of the Sunday Times and the ailing newspaper empire of Lord Kemsley , en route to The Times itself . |
| 19 | ‘ People got married with the same sense of cultural duty that people today ( often the same people ) get divorced , ’ according to the novelist Malcolm Bradbury , ‘ You owed it to yourself and to the times … |
| 20 | The idea is that if elderly people can be encouraged to think back to the times when they had lots of relationships , and when they felt they had some status and worth , then they are able to feel that status carry over more into their present life . |
| 21 | THE more scientists write to The Times threatening to vote Labour unless we give them huge sums of money , the more many of us feel it is time to call a halt to science . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was a slickly-packaged Indian guru with a message tailored to the times . |
| 24 | On 18 September , Environment Minister Chris Patten flew to Brussels for talks with Environment Commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana , according to The Times still ‘ optimistic that he could head off threatened prosecution of Britain by the European Court ’ by showing that ‘ Britain was doing everything it could to comply with the European drinking water legislation . ’ |
| 25 | Activity was such that the Ladies resumed sending their golf reports to The Times , Sporting Life and Gentlewoman and the Standard warned of the early re-introduction of the entrance fee . |
| 26 | The Roman Catholics were particularly vulnerable , yet impossible to dislodge or ignore , and when Cardinal Hinsley wrote a letter to The Times in November 1942 , Churchill cut it out , pasted it to a piece of cardboard and sent it to Butler with the cheerful note : ‘ There you are , fixed , old cock . ’ |
| 27 | More significantly , in a letter to The Times , Mr Roy Jenkins , a former Home Secretary , wrote : |
| 28 | ‘ This going round the world is a very easy and almost imperceptible business ; there is no difficulty about it ’ , he wrote to The Times from a ship in the middle of the Pacific in November 1872 . |
| 29 | On the first world tour in 1872–3 Thomas Cook filed several reports of his travels to The Times in a series called ‘ Letters from the Sea and from Foreign Lands ’ . |
| 30 | Can you send it to The Times ? ’ |