Example sentences of "[that] [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | How could she possibly have walked into the reception room at the hotel where Rune was holding his anniversary party and looked him in the face without betraying the fact that despite the passage of time and distance she still loved him ? |
| 2 | All three teachers were adamant that despite the lack of time for consultation , the lack of space and resources and other problems that had nothing to do with the curricular rationale behind the project , it had been a great success . |
| 3 | So completely was it abandoned that with the passage of time , and the weathering away of what little remained of it , its location was forgotten , although the facts of its existence and its fate were widely known . |
| 4 | There were large , unmistakeable signs that with The Child In Time McEwan had lost his desire to outrage . |
| 5 | Doubtless their minds are uncluttered by the thought that in the fullness of time they themselves will appear on the list . |
| 6 | And yet he conquered these fears , so that in the fullness of time he became a spirited steeplechaser and a keen rider to hounds . |
| 7 | We will discover whether there is a real commitment or whether it is simply words which they hope that the Scottish public will forget were ever uttered so that in the fullness of time they can shunt the companies off to the private sector to do with them as it will . |
| 8 | As a result there is always a possibility , however slight at present , that in the fullness of time , for one reason or another , the caravans could be removed . |
| 9 | I even hinted , without any good reason for thinking it , that in the course of time our little amateur effort at 1OAB might evolve into another commercial station , which caused considerable laughter from both my pioneer radio partners . |
| 10 | It is possible that in the course of time scientific advance will be able to offer at least an hypothesis which will throw some light on the mystery of the origin of the universe and give substance to the belief that life , in some form or other , does have an ineradicable and eternal place in the universe . |
| 11 | It is to be hoped that in the course of time the word ‘ fear ’ used in the context of the foregoing will be abandoned in favour of the word ‘ foreboding ’ , for the conscience , once properly developed should give warning rather than frighten , and therefore enable the individual to avoid that which could give rise to real fear . |
| 12 | Suppose that in the course of time the vowel /a : / in a particular language becomes open /α:/ , as it did in Southern Middle English in words of the type home , stone ( OE há0m , stá0n ) . |
| 13 | It has also been clearly established that in the course of time evaluation of particular variants can change or even be reversed . |
| 14 | The other is that at the end of time there will only be the kings of Hearts , Spades , Diamonds , Clubs and England . |
| 15 | Anindita Balslev has recently drawn attention to the subtlety of many of the Hindu philosophical arguments , for example that concerning the perceptibility of time which took place in the eleventh century . |