Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] time [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the visitors pushed forward Ferguson was unlucky for the second time to have a effort cleared off the line , this time by Birney . |
| 2 | In 1989 , however , the University allocated the VanDyck Gallery in Park Row to the Collection and the following year , which by a happy coincidence marked its 40th anniversary , the Theatre Collection was able for the first time to mount an exhibition in its own Gallery . |
| 3 | During this season in Johannesburg , John unexpectedly had the chance for the first time to dance a real role in public . |
| 4 | On Oct. 17 , 1989 , the PAN voted with the PRI for the first time to pass an electoral reform bill . |
| 5 | To this end , it is calling a World Summit for Children to be held at the UN in New York next September , bringing together heads of state for the first time to discuss an important social issue . |
| 6 | Evidence collected by a new computer-controlled water monitoring and sampling device developed by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has been used for the first time to prosecute a company for polluting a waterway . |
| 7 | And I believe it was then , looking on that view , that I began for the first time to adopt a frame of mind appropriate for the journey before me . |
| 8 | It takes about the same time to do a simple drawing on a 2D machine as on a drawing board . |
| 9 | at the present time to photocopy a couple of extra ones so Angela can have one |
| 10 | So the criminals move freely around the galaxy , pursing their profession , and the FedPol must swallow its frustration and hope one day to be in the right place at the right time to catch a big-time wrong-doer in the act . |
| 11 | The Guildsmen leapt out of his path , trying at the same time to bend a reverent knee . |
| 12 | In rebuilding , the aim was to reduce the width of such turnings into residential areas and at the same time to achieve an optical signal that the restraint area had begun . |
| 13 | Whether senior buyers are able at the same time to exercise an influencing and decision making role will depend on organisational factors . |
| 14 | Both Haketa and the NSDAP sought to resolve and dissolve the internal German class and social conflicts brought about by attempting to maintain a feudal nobility and at the same time to industrialise a newly formed country by projecting their energy into false imperialist and colonial solutions in their eastern borderlands . |
| 15 | to work out a new Defence policy in the light of present strategic needs which would secure substantial reduction in expenditure and manpower ; at the same time to prepare a plan for reshaping and reorganising the armed forces . |
| 16 | ‘ Then I was lucky enough to find this place , and at the same time to find a very good agent who managed to get me plenty of work . ’ |