Example sentences of "[noun] to the [noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is obvious that historical perspectives oblige one to give due weight to the passage of time and to see ideas about duty or obligation , and patterns of support associated with them , as features of family relationships which are adapted to suit the prevailing economic and social conditions . |
| 2 | And it would just completely throw the lesson , and then I would find myself repeating it for them , and in one lesson I must have done that about three times , and I did n't make enough fuss to get those kids to the lesson on time . |
| 3 | The symbolic ordering of ageing with specific reference to the notion of time , will be analysed in the context of gender , historical differences and the total context . |
| 4 | Such alliances tend to be as fleeting as the chance encounters and re-encounters of fictional characters in Anthony Powell 's A Dance to the Music of Time ( 1951–75 ) ; and the conversation of young friends , as potent in all likelihood as any literary influence there is , is largely beyond the reach of the historian , even the contemporary historian , except as guesswork . |
| 5 | Nicolas Poussin 's ‘ A dance to the music of time ’ ( 1639–40 ) which gave its name to the famous series of novels by Anthony Powell , was recently returned to its place in the Great Gallery following restoration by Herbert Lank , Simon Bobak and Nonie Tasker . |
| 6 | A Dance to the Music of Time is also a vast human pageant , not about a narrator discovering his own past , as with Proust . |
| 7 | I once went out to dinner and discovered that the seven other people present had all just finished reading A Dance to the Music of Time . |
| 8 | The character of X. Trapnel , for which he served as model , in Anthony Powell 's A Dance to the Music of Time ( 12 vols. , 1951–75 ) gives an impression of the persona he created for himself . |
| 9 | This was destined to be of particular importance to the measurement of time , because the blacksmith was the forerunner of those who constructed the first mechanical clock . |
| 10 | In other words , for the Hebrews the present was never a clearly delimited unit with precise boundaries but was part of a continuum stretching from the beginning to the end of time and was continually influenced by both past and future . |
| 11 | Representing the operation of Laplace transformation by , it immediately follows that 11.5 ( a ) Unit step function delayed by time with respect to the origin of time , ( b ) unit pulse thought of as the difference between two unit step functions with differing delays and , ( c ) unit square wave thought of as a combination of unit step functions with delays that are multiples of half the period and ( d ) unit impulse function ( see text ) . |
| 12 | This allows one to understand why in sentences with the modals , such as ( 3 ) above , the infinitive event 's actualization can be future with respect to the place in time of the modal . |
| 13 | Short lost the first game to the Russian on time after failing to make 40 moves in his allotted two hours . |
| 14 | The audience was fidgeting behind him , and there was a limit to the amount of time he intended to chat to this crazy woman next to him in the soiled wedding dress and veil . |
| 15 | Table 11.1 gives a general guide to the number of time zones between the United Kingdom and other countries . |
| 16 | When an offer is under-subscribed , the unsold stock is taken on to the books of the Bank of England and used as a tap stock for sale to the market over time as and when demand develops or can be created . |
| 17 | When considered in relation to the length of time you would have to wait at any particular junction in order to observe an accident it is probably accurate to characterise road accidents as low frequency occurrences . |
| 18 | Erm , whilst those credit approvals do bring reimbursement to the council over time , the equivalent amount to grant in broad terms . |
| 19 | This is a much more difficult question to answer , because it involves applying the quantum principle to the structure of time and space themselves and not just to particle paths in a given space-time background . |
| 20 | Although there is some good material in the report on Harris Tweed it stand up less well than some of the others to the passage of time . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , in one respect the Egyptians made an outstanding contribution to the science of time . |
| 22 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |
| 23 | My teaching has always been that the way to good golf is the get the clubhead to the ball in time . |