Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European Community ( EC ) , for example , actually came into existence largely through an acute perception of French national interests by Jean Monnet , who was mainly responsible for creating the European Coal and Steel Community — the precursor of the Common Market — as a means of protecting French industry and especially French steel makers from their more efficient German competitors ; and it is widely recognized at the present time that national interests continue to play a major part in the debates and decisions of the Community . |
| 2 | ‘ Right place at the right time . |
| 3 | Why can I read you like a book , when we only met for the first time four days ago ? |
| 4 | The Great Powers thus pressed their territorial control outwards to encompass for the first time virtually the whole surface of the globe , to centralize the world on a few centres of power . |
| 5 | They were not all written at the same time , or in that order : I had to keep struggling to write my own work as Dana 's poetic demands became more and more insistent . |
| 6 | It is pleasant to think of the two new Cuddesdon students , pushing their bicycles up the hill together from Wheatley station that July day of 1927 , and so meeting for the first time . |
| 7 | The players all played at the same time , and they were always arguing and fighting for hedgehogs . |
| 8 | When hiring tools from HSS Hire Shops you only pay for the actual time the equipment is in use ; in addition you have the HAE assurance that the tools you select are regularly maintained , and are in a safe condition . |
| 9 | Legends about the Babylonian and Persian period were revived — or perhaps invented for the first time — to encourage faithfulness to the Mosaic Law in the new conditions . |
| 10 | Thus was a sense of community fostered between neighbouring towns and villages , the impact of the disco being stubbornly resisted at the same time . |
| 11 | Perhaps come for the first time . |
| 12 | Police have said the men were not necessarily killed at the same time . |
| 13 | Oh let's not all talk at the same time ! |
| 14 | We have seen already that the small heads of some dinosaurs with elongated torsos were no doubt a built-in safety factor against crippling head injuries , while naturally restricting at the same time the development of intelligence . |
| 15 | Moments after the fighter had dipped its wings , the RAF ensign was gently lowered for the last time at Biggin Hill , Kent . |
| 16 | Another of the Fellowship slowly moved towards the battling Time Lord . |
| 17 | He was talking but could not think at the same time . |
| 18 | Agree that Practice Rule 15 be not amended at the present time . |
| 19 | While every effort is made to offer those who book late the course they have requested , the school reserves the right to offer an alternative Executive Course in the case of applications not received within the specified time . |
| 20 | ( China , while not using its veto , nevertheless abstained , thus breaching for the first time the unanimity of the five permanent members of the Security Council in supporting resolutions on the Gulf crisis . |
| 21 | Dysmap works by solving a large number of simultaneous equations at specified time intervals , using the information already calculated for the previous time interval as the basis for the current series of calculations . |
| 22 | Many scrutinies , moreover , are not completed within the two-year time span , and departments have frequently been criticised for delays in implementation . |
| 23 | The impurity is not confined to the actual time of bleeding , but continues for seven days beyond the last sign of vaginal blood , thus effectively confining women to this state of impurity for twelve to fifteen days of the month . |
| 24 | Tess generously tried for the last time to interest Angel in the other dairymaids . |
| 25 | The Whites had vast total forces but the separate forces did not attack at the same time . |
| 26 | The environment working group of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) is finally to meet for the first time — 20 years after it was first constituted . |
| 27 | Abnormal development may occur if a protein is not made at the right time or place , or the protein is defective or if too little or too much is made . |
| 28 | Both knew that the other knew that Steve and Maria Luisa had n't just met for the first time . |
| 29 | It looked quite terrifying — but somehow enticing at the same time . |
| 30 | The sequence was still largely without dates , and more importantly , the development from one broad technological phase to another did not occur at the same time everywhere . |