Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] [conj] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The left-hand pages bore a coloured photograph of some English beauty spot with an appropriate verse , both for the picture and the time of year , while the right-hand pages were each divided into seven sections . |
| 2 | What impressed me was that there was a perceptible interval between the explosion and the time at which Bernal ducked down into our shelter trench . |
| 3 | There are risks because of the operation and also the size of the child and the time we have to do it , so soon after birth . |
| 4 | The method of work has been to get going at the time dictated by the candidate 's first duty of the day and the time taken to get to him . |
| 5 | The traditional view of cell suicide focuses on development : it helps the tadpole to lose its tail ; it dissolves the tissues of the caterpillar when the time comes for change into a moth ; in a mother 's womb , it severs the webs between the digits of a child 's developing hands and feet . |
| 6 | The bill of exchange and the similar promissory note are documents recording the debt of the buyer and the time by which payment is due . |
| 7 | This highlights one of the problems of the approach that the time at which reasonableness should be considered is the time of contract . |
| 8 | As has been previously noted he gave much attention to the unique colour of the Cumbrian mountains and this he combined with the sunlight and shadows falling on the hills so skilfully that it is possible for an observer with local knowledge , to tell the warmth of the sun or the time of day.Just as the mountains give colour to the lakes , so in turn do they reflect the colours of the sky . |
| 9 | On further thought it is soon evident that it is not as easy as that , because the same people are not at church every week , some come more than once on Sunday and will , therefore , be counted twice , and there is an attendance fluctuation depending on the state of the weather and the time of year ! |
| 10 | The information was : ( a ) the names and addresses of customers ; ( b ) the most convenient routes to be taken to reach the individual customers ; ( c ) the usual requirements of individual customers , both as to quality and quantity ; ( d ) the days of the week and the time of the day when deliveries were usually made to individual customers ; ( e ) the prices charged to individual customers . |
| 11 | What made it worse , was that the police had the time of the tram-cars and the time it took to get to a certain stop . |
| 12 | He knew he would n't be able to and now , as he swung himself out of bed , Ray Plummer wondered why he had n't just sat in front of the television until the time came . |
| 13 | strongly of the opinion that the time has arrived when hasty experiments of a socialistic character , no matter how well intentioned — involving heavy public expenditure — should be scrutinised very closely … . |
| 14 | The SSPCA freely admits that feeding livestock on the hills runs contrary to the accepted practice in many hill farming areas but it is of the opinion that the time has come when a stand has to be made . |
| 15 | The Council of Ministers will not find it easy to repeal the ep amendments to the directive if the Commission accepts them ( the Commission has already indicated its agreement to the scope of the categories and the time limits ) . |
| 16 | The familiar sounds brought Jehan to a sense of the place and the time . |
| 17 | I rarely saw a lesson in which the students had not gone to some considerable length to vary their material and their activities to take account of the level of the class , the length of the lesson and the time of day or week . |
| 18 | The first readers of this Gospel would see , in the story of the woman with the haemorrhage , an illustration of the fact that the time of salvation has arrived in the person of Jesus . |
| 19 | Put cream and the expensive bits , not like the chicken and the time it takes |
| 20 | like the date and the time you know along the top right |
| 21 | A loud and unnerving bang on climb-out came as a reminder that the time was looming for the statutory annual check of wing and attached machinery . |
| 22 | Now it 's nothing to do with the day or the time or the months or the week or anything like that . |
| 23 | So you go along to the next D and there 's no Os there , so you come down , D , no Os , so you keep going along the lines and every time you get to a D you stop |
| 24 | I would like the Bill to contain a first offence penalty of a six-month custodial sentence — with no remission and no time off for good behaviour — in a properly funded and managed institution . |
| 25 | The palace was several miles from the Legation and every time they topped a rise my parents saw the whole procession spread out in front and behind . |
| 26 | Given the remaining time left open for consultations within the professions and the time needed to enact rule changes , the requirement is unlikely to reach the statute books before 1990 . |
| 27 | Aggregation in vitro , which is an active process ( Vargaftig et al , 1981 ) , is dependent on pH , temperature , mechanical stirring , calcium-ion concentration , the concentration of platelets in the PRP and the time elapsed between the performance of the aggregation tests and the preparation of the PRP ( Mills , 198 1 ) . |
| 28 | Within three weeks they die , having laid the eggs of the next generation which will be in the soil until the time comes to repeat the cycle . |
| 29 | For example , Forster and Olbrei ( 1974 , p. 320 ) propose that : ‘ syntactic processing is relatively independent of semantic processing , in the sense that the time required to analyze the syntactic structure of a sentence is constant , despite variations in the meaning of the sentence . ’ |
| 30 | The results of Warman 's experiments strongly suggest that in normal language comprehension syntactic processing is not autonomous , in the sense that the time taken to understand a sentence does not depend solely on the amount of syntactic analysis required . |