Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 31 | It has , of course , been a problem with star conductors going back to the time of Nikisch that the conductor can come to seem more charismatic than the music he is conducting . |
| 32 | She approves of that , says it 's a good thing to keep up with the times . ’ |
| 33 | The founding of the White Lions dates back to the time of the bitter civil war with the Dark Elves when Caledor the First was recalled from hunting in Chrace to become the new Phoenix King . |
| 34 | ‘ It may be best for us ’ , McFarlane reported back at the time , ‘ to try to picture what it would be like if after nuclear attack , a surviving Tartar became Vice-President ; a recent grad student became Secretary of State ; and a bookie became the interlocutor for all discourse with foreign countries . ’ |
| 35 | She had made it a habit never to leave medicines lying about since the time she found Emma sucking a Panadol , thinking it was a mint , but thankfully then having the sense to spit it out when she found it was n't . |
| 36 | A third approach was adopted by a small minority of bishops but an ever-larger circle of theologians , young priests ordained round about the time of the Council and lay activists , all far more aware of the objective inadequacy of the conciliar documents as they stood : inadequate precisely because their composers had been over-anxious not to make any sharp break with pre-conciliar practice . |
| 37 | Grievances against the federal Government of the republic of India go back to the time of independence , when many Sikhs felt that Nehru and his Congress party reneged on solemn undertakings . |
| 38 | As Gandhi pointed out at the time , Munich was a victory for Hitler 's violence , not for pacifist protest . |
| 39 | As environmentalists pointed out at the time of the Shetlands disaster , there is a degree of hypocrisy in expressing outrage at the spillage when such accidents are the price we seem prepared to pay for access to oil . |
| 40 | On Jan. 29 President César Gaviria Trujillo made a fresh offer , extending an earlier decree to include crimes committed up to the time of surrender , and on Jan. 30 the Extraditables , maintaining that the police had in fact killed Diana Turbay , announced that they were reconsidering their latest declaration of war and would abstain from violent action for the moment . |
| 41 | The British connection dated back to the time when Jacobite refugees settled here in the eighteenth century , but it was after Wellington 's victories in the region early in the 1800s that it became serious . |
| 42 | The Commodore 64 also offers a similar system but the ZX Spectrum , on which the Light Rifle was tested , does n't and the deficiency shows up in the time taken to calculate the position of the rifle when the trigger is pulled . |