Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But direct observation does give you the colours and you do become more accurate , even though sunlight and shadows move so fast during the time it takes to paint such a scene that the particular arrangement that caught your eye in the first place has long since gone by the time the picture is finished ! |
| 2 | ‘ We are not perhaps far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation ’ , he said . |
| 3 | The fragmentation of the trade — the implications of which were only dimly perceived at the time — was to become of crucial importance later and will be looked at in more detail below . |
| 4 | I think my first thought was a black armband to wear on my uniform I was so proudly wearing at the time of the news . |
| 5 | There is little doubt that the coalition was returned to power mainly on Unionist votes , although this was not widely recognized at the time ; the Unionists had never won so many votes before , and it was perhaps natural to attribute their success to their new asset . |
| 6 | The purpose of the law , which was not widely practised by the time of Jesus , was to preserve both a family line and the inheritance of family possessions and property . |
| 7 | It was not until the pontificate of Pope John XIII , elected in 965 , that the Papacy began dating by the year of the Incarnation , but the practice was not uniformly adopted until the time of Pope Leo IX , elected in 1048 . |
| 8 | This is the ‘ truest cause ’ of Thuc. i.23 , a famous and deeply original statement which is the first conscious attempt to develop a theory of historical causation : ‘ The truest cause ’ , he says , ‘ was one not much admitted at the time : it was the growth of Athenian power , which frightened the Spartans and forced them to war . |
| 9 | My paper was rather mathematical , however , so its implications for the role of God in the creation of the universe were not generally recognized at the time ( just as well for me ) . |
| 10 | According to Richards , therefore , critics need two things that they did not habitually possess at the time he was writing , and usually do not possess now : a theory of communication and a theory of valuation . |
| 11 | After studying in Vienna with Hummel and with Simon Sechter ( whose other pupils included Schubert , in the last days of his life , and Bruckner , half-way through his ) , Thalberg 's career as one of the leading virtuosi of his days was already well established by the time he moved to Paris . |
| 12 | However , the new versions do not support the de facto OSF/Motif graphical user interface standard — though the Sun version does support OpenLook — and Motif support may not even feature by the time the RS/6000 version is delivered , though ICL says it is working on it . |
| 13 | Recent studies of language acquisition reveal that children are very attentive , and actively process evidence in ways perhaps not fully appreciated at the time when Chomsky was championing a theory of innate linguistic universals that depended heavily on an alleged gap between the scanty data available to the child and the rich system that he eventually masters in response thereto . |
| 14 | The spring of 1922 was the crucial period , when the unmetalled roads began to break up into mud and the rivers had not yet melted By the time grain had arrived from the Black Sea to an area north of Samara , only one in ten of the available sledges could get through to rural areas , so that instead or 48,750 pudy of corn , a mere 1,500 were delivered . |
| 15 | On that basis of the civil law , the majority of the Supreme Court of Canada held in Montreal Tramways v. Leveille [ 1933 ] 4 D.L.R. 337 , that when a child not actually born at the time of an accident was subsequently born alive and viable , it was clothed with all the rights of action which it would have had if actually in existence at the date of the accident to the mother . |
| 16 | These doubts were still widely encountered at the time of the 1840 Convention but a debate there and at the 1843 meeting stimulated the search for a reliable supply of free-labour cotton to reduce dependence on the slaveholders of the American South . |
| 17 | Reading and eating were always metaphorically linked at the time . |
| 18 | Wallace estimated that Sulawesi was of very ancient origin , possibly even dating from a time before Sumatra , Java and Borneo were raised above the level of the ocean . |
| 19 | With this sort of hierarchical team , the possibility of idiosyncratic judgements is minimized , and with the control of the recording in the supervisors ' hands , errors are more readily noted at the time they occur and can be corrected or allowed for in the subsequent analysis . |
| 20 | This was the brainchild of Francesco de Carerra , a senior legislator in Padua , and it amounted to a padlock that closed the vaginal labia tight by the simple expedient of passing right through them — or as it was more decorously phrased at the time ‘ locked up the seat of voluptuousness ’ . |
| 21 | He said what he most probably felt at the time , which was the heat of the moment . |
| 22 | The prison at Halling was most probably built in the time of Bishop Glanville , when this Bishop carried out extensive repairs and rebuilding in I 185 . |
| 23 | These clustered contractions nearly always developed at a time when the lower oesophageal sphincter pressure was below 5 mm Hg . |
| 24 | Self-provisioning is also more appreciated at a time of economic recession like the present . |
| 25 | Harald was probably also recognised for a time as ruler of part of Norway . |
| 26 | This collection , often inadequately reviewed at the time , but now seen as the heart of his poetic achievement , contains poems described by Hardy himself as ‘ possibly among the best I have written ’ . |
| 27 | These in his original draft he had characterised at " Chetniks " , a term often loosely used at the time although its most precise meaning was to refer to the Royalist followers of Gen Mihailovitch . |
| 28 | and did n't always tell at the time |
| 29 | I was n't really thinking at the time . |
| 30 | So I had to go to the , like the job centre and they offered me this , which I did n't really fancy at the time . |