Example sentences of "to [det] time " in BNC.
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1 | It had continually opposed socio-political change and had had little understanding of the industrialization process up to that time . |
2 | When a blow-over does occur , you will always hear the people concerned state , quite truthfully : ‘ Up to that time the wind had been quite acceptable and then there was this bad gust … |
3 | Leach ( 1977 ) has shown the ephemerality which lies in any attempt to classify deviance on a global scale ; for what is criminal in one society or at one point in time is relative to that time and place and to who holds the discourse on power . |
4 | Up to that time their lives had been appallingly difficult , given the savage treatment their fellow-Poles meted out to them . |
5 | In his last year at Devonport High School in Plymouth he set himself the aim of finding a job which would earn him £5 a week , because up to that time , his father , a Westcountryman , had never achieved such a princely sum . |
6 | For Hegel , the philosopher who up to that time had most influenced Marx , the idea of the State was a major force in history and the true source of justice . |
7 | Up to that time I had very limited opportunities to conduct and I very much wanted to direct a real concert . |
8 | When he commanded 4th Field Regiment in Northern Ireland in 1974 the regiment was awarded four Queen 's Gallantry Medals and four Commander-in-Chief 's commendations ; it also recovered more weapons than any other unit serving in Belfast up to that time . |
9 | As I stood there my mind raced back to that time so many years ago when I had heard my mother say , ‘ I do n't love you , Nicky . ’ |
10 | The entire programme spanned the period of the most demanding war ever fought by Britain up to that time , first against the new French Republic and later against Napoleon 's Empire . |
11 | One of them was Guardsman Johnny Cooper who had managed to join the Scots Guards while still under age and who was very impressed by his commanding officer : ‘ he was different from the officers I had come into contact with up to that time . |
12 | The Conclusions are circulated very promptly after Cabinet , and up to that time , no minister , certainly not the prime minister , asks to see them or conditions them in any way . ’ |
13 | Being published , originally , in 1655–73 it is of the greatest importance in connection with ecclesiastical buildings up to that time . |
14 | A number of Acts permitting enclosure were passed by parliament in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , and the Combsburgh Enclosure Award ( the granting of fields to be enclosed by people who , up to that time , had common grazing rights ) was , in 1858 , based on an Act of 1836 . |
15 | The experts say that for a woman over about 40 , SERPS is definitely going to be better , and if she has been paying into a contracted out PP scheme up to that time , she should change over then . |
16 | He sounded people out and found the responses favourable , so he set about to prepare the finest survey to have been carried out on Manchester up to that time and indeed up to the time of Charles Roeder 's article , late in the 19th century . |
17 | Our only ‘ machine tool ’ up to that time had been a second-hand pillar drill . |
18 | Many lines of thought were eventually brought together in the 454 folio pages of Bishop Wilkins 's Essay Towards a Real Character and Philosophical Language , which Slaughter deems a monument to that time ‘ when western Europe entered upon the early modern period of its specialised scientific and technical development ’ . |
19 | The beginning of civilisation was almost certainly a mental development which came long before it affected man 's physical abilities , and it could well have been the moment when for the first time , a primitive creature found that he could override and control the instinctive urge to act , which up to that time would have been the only source of motivation . |
20 | In 1921 a report placed before the Prussian Diet revealed that of the 460,884 hectares of land purchased by the Commission up to that time , only 27.4 per cent had come from the Poles ; a staggering 72.5 per cent had been purchased by the Commission from German estate owners . |
21 | Up to that time , I was simply playing , or experimenting with the girls . |
22 | A rabbit which up to that time may have been perfectly content to sit it out suddenly has more grounds for fear . |
23 | Anyone who withdraws more than net interest or pledges the Tessa as security for a loan immediately loses the tax exemption and has to pay tax on all interest credited up to that time as though it were income arising during the year when the withdrawal or pledge took place . |
24 | It was the highest number at any hearing up to that time . |
25 | Energy applications for muon catalysed fusion , Jones ' main research line up to that time , were appearing to be very remote and in August 1988 Jones decided to mount a vigorous effort to pursue the piezonuclear fusion . |
26 | The glass used up to that time had had a very poor ‘ memory ’ . |
27 | Up to that time much of the flight recorder work had been handled under contract by a private company specialising in data processing under the supervision of our specialist , but it was an expensive arrangement and I felt the activity should be completely under our own control . |
28 | All four , together with Althusser 's pupil , Michel Foucault , worked within an epistemological tradition which was critical of the positivism which , up to that time , had dominated the history of the sciences . |
29 | Prior to that time retirement ages for men and women were the same , and this meant that a man retiring at 65 often had to support himself and his wife on a single-rate pension , because on average women were younger than their husbands . |
30 | It was not until 1881 that he decided to take a medical degree ; his work up to that time had been in the physiological laboratory under Brücke , where , for six years , he had studied the central nervous system . |