Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The producers of public expenditure have helped increase public spending since the competition for votes has led politicians to promise more and more spending ; moreover , since governments come into office with a vast amount of spending commitments inherited from previous governments , their ability to reduce these commitments substantially is limited through the length of time that would be required to make such reductions , and further , they are unlikely to court unpopularity through doing so . |
| 2 | But , in an uncanny moment of premonition , I am able to see through the mists of time to Judgement Day . |
| 3 | The Preces and sermons , together with his controversial works , were to cause Andrewes to become regarded as the leader in time and eminence of the Anglo-Catholic movement . |
| 4 | They 've come through the hole in time . |
| 5 | Why do we need to be reminded about the eradication of time all the time ? |
| 6 | Stronger than its danger , there arises out of the couplet a sense of the nobility of man , and a grand magnitude that lies throughout the passage of time and whose power , when harnessed , as now by the poet , renders all things glorious and reassuring . |
| 7 | This alternates with the amount of time until desaturation is achieved ( no flying time ) , signified by an image of an aeroplane . |
| 8 | ACCEPTANCE HAS COME WITH THE PASSING OF TIME AND HIS BOOKER-NOMINATED HIT NOVEL ‘ AMONGST WOMEN ’ . |
| 9 | For the world , he will play the Hermit of Croisset ; for his friends in Paris , he will play the Idiot of the Salons ; for George Sand he will play the Reverend Father Cruchard , a fashionable Jesuit who enjoys hearing the confessions of society women ; for his intimate circle he will play Saint Polycarpe , that obscure Bishop of Smyrna , martyred in the nick of time at the age of ninety-five , who pre-echoed Flaubert by stopping up his ears and crying out , ‘ Oh Lord ! |
| 10 | Some of those waves at the bottom of the world — I mean you can tell by the look of them they have come from the beginnings of time and will roll right over you and go on rolling for ever . |
| 11 | There are those who think that the ordination of women is bound to come in the course of time and wonder why it is necessary to campaign for it . |
| 12 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 13 | The three streams which once ran beneath it have long since vanished , but , at the back of the town , the water still finds its way to the sea , as it has from the beginning of time . |
| 14 | Here you have an opportunity to sell as much advertising you want in the period of time . |
| 15 | ‘ You have come in the nick of time , ’ Alexandra told him . |
| 16 | Pauline Dungate has been working in the church for quite a few years , and she knows the man who lives in the cemetery from time to time . |
| 17 | Actors and actresses revealing how ancient they were by their dress and arrangements of hair-style smiled down from the walls , their smiles captured forever — frozen in the curtain-call of time . |
| 18 | Enwrapped within the womb of time , once cramped |
| 19 | The results for some other questions on calendars have already been considered in the section on time . |
| 20 | Major changes occurred in the course of time in the availability both of different substances and of the techniques for shaping and displaying them . |
| 21 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 22 | The Christian view of time directed to the future , as presented by St Augustine , differed from the ideas of time current in Classical antiquity in that it was neither cyclic nor would it continue indefinitely without anything essentially new occurring . |
| 23 | As mentioned previously , this so often happened with monotonous and maddening frequency during operations , but luckily radio contact was regained in the nick of time and the message was passed that Margate seemed the most likely landing spot . |
| 24 | In awarding an extension of time and then , if appropriate , calculating any overheads due to be reimbursed , allowance should be made for any overheads already recouped through additional work items instructed which contributed to the extension of time . |
| 25 | Changes of code are minimized , but new activities must be added to the list from time to time . |
| 26 | In Leaf v International Galleries , Denning LJ ( as he then was ) expressed the view that the right to rescind for misrepresentation can not survive beyond the point of time when a right to reject for breach of condition is lost . |
| 27 | Successfully , for the whirlybird changed direction , heading straight for them , and Travis backed off , returning to the hut in time to shield her from the cloud of sand the machine whipped up as it landed . |
| 28 | The hon. Member for Keighley ( Mr. Waller ) referred to the length of time and the detailed scrutiny that the Committee gave to the Bill . |
| 29 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the expression ‘ is suffering … significant harm ’ in section 31(2) ( a ) of the Children Act 1989 referred to the point in time immediately before the process of protecting the child began , so that , in determining whether the first threshold condition of section 31(2) was satisfied , the court had to consider the position before the commencement of the voluntary care when the children were with the mother ; that the condition in section 31(2) ( b ) related to care by the parent or carer whose lack of care had caused the significant harm to the child and not to the care which might be given by other carers if no care order were to be made , which only became relevant once the threshold conditions under section 31(2) had been satisfied in deciding whether or not a care order should be made ; and that it could not be said that the family proceedings court had been wrong in concluding , first , that the threshold conditions were satisfied and , secondly , on the evidence , that a care order to the local authority was the appropriate order ( post , pp. 1013H — 1014A , E–F , H — 1015B ) . |
| 30 | Trying to convince people the project was worth pursuing was not easy , and over a long period personal time had to be carved out to work on the project from time allocated to a variety of other activities ranging from textile fibres to films and even to electronics . |