Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] time [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ride down Northern Boulevard from La Guardia airport to the Queensboro bridge may not be the best way to see New York for the first time although Maxim caught glimpses of its towers jolting towards them over the grey horizon . |
| 2 | Cork 's late strike made sure of a top 10 place for the first time since promotion — ‘ and a nice bonus , judging from the long faces in our boardroom , ’ grinned Mr Bassett . |
| 3 | FOR the first time since peace was signed in El Salvador more than a year ago , blood has been spilled on the streets of San Salvador , the capital city . |
| 4 | The most tangible signs of this tendency to borrow more are highlighted in the Central Statistical Office 's Social Trends 1989 , which showed that household expenditure exceeded income in 1986 and 1987 for the first time since compilation of the information began . |
| 5 | The most tangible signs of this tendency to borrow more are highlighted in the Central Statistical Office 's Social Trends 1989 , which showed that household expenditure exceeded income in 1986 and 1987 for the first time since compilation of the information began . |
| 6 | She spoke for the first time since luncheon began : " Darling , your spinach , please . " |
| 7 | Below : A late evening view taken as Oak 's engine runs for the first time since restoration . |
| 8 | As well as campaigning against embryo research , it plans to introduce an abortion amendment to the Bill , thereby forcing a free vote for the first time since abortion was legalised in 1967 . |
| 9 | Another innovation of lenses is seeing yourself without the cover of glasses from a three-foot distance for the first time since puberty . |
| 10 | For the first time since Heaven , Ace thought of Julian , and the times they had sat in worn green leather armchairs , the hum of traffic from the A40 outside making waves in their glasses , knowing that the barman thought they were underage but also knowing that Ace intimidated him so much that he would n't say anything . |
| 11 | MOTHERWELL climbed to the top of the Scottish Premier Division for the first time since League reconstruction 14 years ago with a 1-0 win over Rangers at Fir Park last night . |
| 12 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 13 | Wings was subsequently sold by Rank to Horizon at about the same time as Horizon was itself purchased more or less outright by Bass for £90 million in May 1987 . |
| 14 | Lead was first used at about the same time as copper , though it was seldom used to make artefacts in its own right . |
| 15 | The Roots , a drawing done at about the same time as Sorrow , was conceived quite deliberately as a companion piece , He paired them because he was trying to say the same thing in both . |
| 16 | Five of these are held in the US and five in Europe , including Plymouth , where a Scottish team could get its first taste of the big time if sponsorship was forthcoming . |
| 17 | However , the Communists , who emerged for a second time as power broker despite their loss of seven seats in parliament , has made it clear that they will not collaborate with the Pasok leader whom they indicted for alleged wrongdoing during the interim left-right coalition government of Mr Tzannis Tzannetakis . |
| 18 | They played rummy with Patsy in the kitchen for a long time because Mother and Father went across the road to Dr and Mrs Johnson 's house . |
| 19 | This achieves much more in the long run than attempting to concentrate for a long time until fatigue sets in . |
| 20 | The McKays qualified and married in Edinburgh and then left to work in London for a short time before travel beckoned and they went to work firstly in Papua New Guinea and then in Lusaka , Zambia . |
| 21 | Along along the bottom time if time is one of the things you 're working with it just about always goes along the bottom . |
| 22 | We know rather little about what kind of bargains are struck at the present time although inheritance is always a possible way of ensuring that the balance of support does not tip too much in one direction , even if its use is not spoken about openly . |
| 23 | However , they do appear to gently tighten and tone up the surface of the skin ( albeit temporarily ) and moisturise at the same time so skin feels softer and smoother . |
| 24 | Fear can not be experienced at the same time as love — whether we are talking of love of an individual , of mankind , of the world or of yourself . |
| 25 | But they will also be rivals when former Blue Peter girl Caron , 29 , presents a game show on Radio 5 — at the same time as mum is on air on Radio 2 . |
| 26 | David Elsworth is lucky to have such a superb performer as Barnbrook Again in his string at the same time as Desert Orchid . |
| 27 | When early retirement took place at the same time as redundancy , the fear of not getting financial compensation became a reason for taking early retirement . |
| 28 | It was something that had to be done at the same time as teaching , and was seen more , I suppose , as a chore rather than as something which would have any sort of positive spin-off for us . |
| 29 | Not all patients on corticosteroids at the same time as HRT lose bone . |
| 30 | Selection for resistance to mastitis and good fertility at the same time as selection for milk yield and quality is proving effective in the dairy cattle population of Norway . |