Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [det] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The swimming was n't very good ; the whole place stank of sardines , and the noble castle turned out to be a youth hostel ; also there was a forty-mile-an-hour gale blowing much of the time . |
| 2 | The Mail in 1971–3 did not give the radio schedules , while the Times usually printed the wrong day 's schedules and then only for the General Service ( English ) , omitting altogether the Home Service ( Zambian languages ) to which the majority of its readership listened most of the time . |
| 3 | Evan spends much of the time with his eyes clamped shut , rocking gently and scraping notes out of his sore , croaking throat . |
| 4 | Sales are somewhere in between since although there is a structured sales department , individual salesmen operate much of the time on their own . |
| 5 | Although the school holidays are difficult , her husband does shift work and could arrange his shifts to cover most of the time she is at work . |
| 6 | None of the nomes in the cab noticed this at the time . |
| 7 | Ralph spent most of the time studying his newspaper . |
| 8 | The dwarf maintains an assault on the trees for long periods and achieves little ( the equivalent of frequent , low-magnitude events ) ; the giant sleeps most of the time but occasionally wakes and causes great destruction ( a catastrophic event ) whereas the man works regular hours and systematically achieves the greatest effects ( events that occur once or twice each year ) . |
| 9 | Existing policies keep most people occupied most of the time . |
| 10 | Until 1939 internal dissension remained characteristic of the Labour Party , with agitations against Fascism and the National Government 's foreign policy occupying much of the time and energy of the active Party member . |
| 11 | Tom and Brian spent much of the time reading . |
| 12 | ‘ The programme concentrates mainly on Hollywood movies , because they 're the ones most people see most of the time , ’ Wood says . |
| 13 | It is easier for this to happen if there are in any case two copies of most genes present most of the time , as in diploids . |
| 14 | Sub-contracting works fine most of the time but if you want something done urgently and the typesetter is broken or tied up on a job for its owner then guess who 's work is going to have to wait . |
| 15 | The present unfair , first past the post system favours Labour most of the time , so why do they complain when it goes against them ? |
| 16 | These results confirm those of the time series test in which high and low beta portfolios earned less than expected and more than expected respectively . |
| 17 | Benjamin spent most of the time sitting in a chair staring at the guttering candle flame , whilst my sleep was racked by terrible nightmares of my visit to Montfaucon . |
| 18 | ‘ Dierdriu and the courtiers slept all of the time the Princess was held captive inside the Dark Ireland . |
| 19 | There is no official ‘ core curriculum ’ , but the evidence available suggests that PGCE courses spend most of the time covering common ground . |
| 20 | From Ajaccio they travelled by bus to Porto Vecchio , Minton sleeping much of the time with his mouth open and head lolling against Ross 's shoulder . |
| 21 | Consequently , protein-binding sites exposed during multiple dissociation events will most of the time escape the DMS attack and hence remain intact . |
| 22 | His mother insists that John spent much of the time at the house of his aunt Kay ( wife of Grace 's brother Errol , then a prisoner-of-war ) , or in the company of her children , who came to use the swimming pool attached to the flats where Herbert and John lived , so that John was never left to the care of black servants . |
| 23 | They could n't hear what Mother said most of the time , but Dad was shouting . |
| 24 | Roles works most of the time with one of his two Hasselblads , which he finds a good compromise between quality and portability ; these and a range of lenses comprise his field equipment . |