Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] of time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked so like my daughter did at her age , and the pleasure she gave me compensated for the lack of time I had with her mother when she was a child . |
| 2 | For the moment of time I thought about it , I remember thinking : ‘ Who is going to be hurt by this ? ’ |
| 3 | Clients are charged for the amount of time they take up , including the length of the interview and any telephone calls . |
| 4 | As he studied the list of names of men who had evaded the Dragoons , the names of 2 Ayrshiremen took his attention , both for the length of time they had eluded ‘ justice ’ . |
| 5 | Hoof and horn is yet another animal end product valuable as a long-lasting slow-release supplier of nitrogen , and in the same class as bone meal for the length of time it takes . |
| 6 | The funny thing was that Uncle George had made no remark about the length of time she 'd been away . |
| 7 | However , I shall study the issue that the hon. Gentleman has raised about the length of time it takes for the grant to get to the applicant and then back to the contractor . |
| 8 | You would wonder how they could eat at all after the amount of time they spent talking about food . ’ |
| 9 | If you study the long-term unemployed , sadly what happens is they lose their job or they do n't get employment , and eventually they keep working hard , right , but after the period of time they get dispirited when they find that people are not willing to take them on , and of course it 's a terrible thing for them to cope with . |
| 10 | Because of the lack of time I shall draw attention to a recently published report entitled ’ UK Energy Policy Post-Privatisation ’ which was written by Professor Fells . |
| 11 | The shortness of the period of time it is left on the road is immaterial ( Holliday v Henry [ 1974 ] RTR 101 ) . |
| 12 | With reference to War Office letter of 3rd March 1945 regarding your husband Lieutenant L. G. Cairns , Army Air Corps , I am directed to inform you that in view of the length of time which has elapsed since Lieutenant Cairns was reported missing , during which no news of him has been received from any source , the Department has reluctantly , and with deep regret , reached the conclusion that he lost his life . |
| 13 | Under section 14(4) , the Secretary of State for Transport might dispense with the nationality condition in the case of an individual in view of the length of time he had resided in the United Kingdom and been involved in the fishing industry of the United Kingdom . |
| 14 | ‘ Where , in the case of any fishing vessel , the Secretary of State is satisfied that — ( a ) the vessel would be eligible to be registered as a British fishing vessel but for the fact that any particular individual , or ( as the case may be ) each of a number of particular individuals , is not a British citizen ( and is accordingly not a qualified person ) , and ( b ) it would be appropriate to dispense with the requirement of British citizenship in the case of that individual or those individuals , in view of the length of time he has or they have resided in the United Kingdom and been involved in the fishing industry of the United Kingdom , the Secretary of State may determine that that requirement should be so dispensed with ; and , if he does so , the vessel shall , so long as paragraph ( a ) above applies to it and any such determination remains in force , be treated for the purposes of this Part as eligible to be registered as a British fishing vessel . |
| 15 | Lastly , the power vested in the Secretary of State under section 14(4) of the Act of 1988 to dispense with the nationality requirement in the case of one ( or more ) individuals in view of the length of time he has ( or they have ) resided in the United Kingdom and been involved in the fishing industry there , is not such as to make the nationality requirements compatible with the E.E.C . |
| 16 | Lastly , under section 14(4) , the Secretary of State for Transport could dispense with the nationality condition in the case of an individual in view of the length of time he had resided in the United Kingdom and been involved in the fishing industry of the United Kingdom . |
| 17 | Don Eigler , one of the IBM researchers , said last week that he was sceptical about IBM 's technique being useful for data storage because of the length of time it takes to move atoms . |
| 18 | Lois Brown was critical of the length of time it took many publishers to make deliveries . |
| 19 | Children are particularly at risk because of the amount of time they spend out of doors . |
| 20 | Despite the amount of time I spent worrying about them , the questions themselves were usually the same : what happened to John ? |
| 21 | With the passage of time there were changes in both the overall amount of INSET provision at the Primary Centre and in its priority areas . |
| 22 | I do n't think it 'd been very lucrative work with the amount of time he took to it . |
| 23 | From the beginning of time it had waited , embedded in the great black Altar of Khaine on the Blighted Isle . |
| 24 | At a time when his life was unsettled and the future uncertain , he returns to the world of his childhood and , in the course of the poem , meditates upon the need for release from the wheel of time itself , " the trailing/Consequence of further days and hours " . |
| 25 | Glasses are not particularly stable materials , and in the course of time they devitrify , acquiring a micro-crystalline structure , and losing their glassy transparency . |
| 26 | Above all , attention has concentrated on the ways in which in the course of time they managed to transform their basis of subsistence , increase and concentrate populations and by making possible a finer subdivision of labour promote advances in technology which in turn generated further cycles of progressive change . |
| 27 | Weeks went by and months went by ; in the course of time they had a little son . |
| 28 | And in the course of time they began to make simple documentaries erm which would be something say the study of Pekin , if you happened to go there , or Italy if you happened to go , any country that to which you could go , you went and you made not just newsreels but also erm documentary studies of these films , of these places . |
| 29 | Even a Roman road might be interfered with in this way and diverted from its ancient line ; and in the course of time its exact line became lost and the subject of an archaeological problem today . |
| 30 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |