Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | One has only to think of the time it took and what was necessary to develop the now largely taken-for-granted temperature scales ; an effort involving not only technological developments , but also developments in physics , thermodynamics , mathematics , and more . |
| 2 | ‘ If you did that , then it is just about the greatest miracle a person has ever performed since the time of Jesus . ’ |
| 3 | As guests of a Maharajah in one of the great Indian Native States , we were surrounded by an opulence and splendour little changed since the time of Akbar . |
| 4 | There are , of course , an increasing number of exceptions but concerns still exist about the time involvement of clinicians and whether it represents the most valuable use of their time . |
| 5 | It 's no good just using simple words to describe each step in that argument , if the whole argument gets so convoluted by the time you finish the listener thought , ‘ Well , I understood the bits , but I did n't understand the whole . ’ |
| 6 | The actual time of the start is difficult to arrive at , and is not important , but whatever the historical facts may be , it can be taken as fairly certain that the misuse of religion had become well established at the time of the advent of Jesus Christ . |
| 7 | I 'm sure the demand for the venue will have greatly increased by the time we return . |
| 8 | The issue must have seemed finely balanced at the time , but the troubled history of the prisons in the years that followed suggests that Butler was wrong to have accepted Cunningham 's advice that the Commission was no longer an adequate body to handle the complexity of the tasks to be performed . |
| 9 | Note Please advise at the time of booking if you wish to visit the Museum which is on site . |
| 10 | The second fact is that those crews that took off on 25/26 August 1940 from bases like Waddington , Scampton , Lindholme , Hemswell and Newmarket , ill-equipped though they were to inflict any real damage on the enemy , achieved an impact on the course of the war that none could have truly appreciated at the time . |
| 11 | All of the multifarious social duties in which he was now involved constantly encroached upon the time and energy which he wished to devote to his own writing . |
| 12 | The 15 day limit also cuts into the time that should be spent assisting clients . |
| 13 | The PR lady had thankfully disappeared by the time we reached the Wigmore Street entrance to St Christopher 's Place , which was probably just as well . |
| 14 | If the goods had already perished at the time the contract was made , then section 6 is the appropriate section . |
| 15 | This bull did irreparable harm to the Catholic cause in England ; coming too late to assist the Northern rising , which had already collapsed by the time it was issued , in the long term it equated Catholicism closely with treason and made the recusant community the object of deepening fear and suspicion . |
| 16 | And there was his behaviour since their father 's death : odd little things she had scarcely noticed at the time but now they began to acquire significance in her mind . |
| 17 | Well , for once a 25-year-old test with the fastest figures this magazine had ever produced at the time seems positively understated when you come face to face with the reality . |
| 18 | While it was vital to be well turned out , the young gallant should beware of imitating those fops who spent their time building huge and elaborate turbans : men like Mirza Abu Said , a great amir under Shah Jehan , who was so fastidious in the construction of his head-wraps that the Imperial Durbar had usually finished by the time he had finished tying it all together . |
| 19 | We 've both changed during the time we 've spent apart . |
| 20 | On the question of Poland , Lenin accepted much of Rosa Luxemburg 's case that circumstances had qualitatively changed since the time of Marx — ‘ the restoration of Poland , prior to the fall of capitalism , is highly improbable , but it can not be asserted that it is absolutely impossible ’ . |
| 21 | The Firefly , owned by Jim Connell , of Gatley Drive , Maghull , had almost sunk by the time it had been towed in and hauled onto a slipway . |
| 22 | Judging from the evidence provided in these documents , it appears that Jacques had essentially retired by the time of his marriage in 1728 . |
| 23 | PERHAPS feeling somewhat piscine at the time the organisers of North-East Norwegian Week insisted on announcing that something fishy would mark its start at the MetroCentre . |
| 24 | Certainly the political situation has meant to both types have possibly served beyond the time that they would have served had the SAAF had access to an open world market . |
| 25 | The fact that Y may have been quite innocent and have genuinely believed at the time that the goods were his to sell , gives him no defence either to a claim by Z for breach of contract or to a claim by O for conversion . |
| 26 | She bought a few bits and pieces from the post office and was feeling thoroughly deflated by the time she got back to the house . |