Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority shareholders at the same time expressed strong criticism of the Bank of England and other regulators over their handling of the affair . |
| 2 | Marcel , the first person narrator of the novel , meets the writer Bergotte for the first time . |
| 3 | ‘ Heavens no , ’ agreed Julia , thinking about the Easter plans for the first time that evening . |
| 4 | Boots The chemist are to open pharmacy concessions for the first time in seven JS branches in late July . |
| 5 | Indeed , in order to squeeze all the required National Curriculum subjects into the available time , a cross-curricular approach may be essential . |
| 6 | The comparison can be made visually in Figure 1.2 , which allocates equal space on the page to each constituency , Figure 1.2A for unemployment , and in Figure 1.2B for the 1987 election result at the same time . |
| 7 | He added : ‘ The firm will continue to operate in its traditional successful style and our employees can consider their jobs to be as secure as any can be in the building industry at the present time . |
| 8 | AFTER 21 years service has covered his drawing board for the last time to take up the more leisurely pursuits of photography and walking in his retirement . |
| 9 | AFTER more than 31 years working for , electrical engineer has packed away his drawing board for the last time and started his retirement . |
| 10 | Because of the variable time between pulse labelling and biopsy , there will be a trend to higher crypt labelling subsequent on cell division over the longer time periods . |
| 11 | Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt 's excellent book , The Bomber Command War Diaries tell us that on the night of 23/24 September Bomber Command for the first time concentrated its main bomber strength on one city — Berlin . |
| 12 | Minister of Science William Waldegrave , may have released the first major UK government White Paper on science and technology for over 10 years yesterday , but information technology professionals need n't hold their breath : while Waldegrave seems to think we should count ourselves lucky because we 've got our own research council for the first time , it would be more truthful to say we 've been stuffed into the miscellaneous section of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council , along with the electronic , electrical and communications industries ; our body , together with the Particle Physics and Sciences Research Council , will replace the Science and Engineering Research Council ; as a result , we will benefit ‘ from the same building of bridges between research bodies and industry ’ as the rest of the reorganised bodies and should experience interaction at an earlier stage — on the Japanese and German model . |
| 13 | I turned , grabbed my dressing gown and made for the door ; with one mighty ninja kick , the side of my right foot connected with all three switches of the fan heater at the same time and it hummed into life . |
| 14 | THE FORK : where one piece attacks two enemy pieces at the same time . |
| 15 | Most of these schemes are designed to improve employee motivation at the same time , either through relating pay to profits or encouraging the acquisition of shares by employees . |
| 16 | The King meets with opposition leaders for the first time . |
| 17 | AFTER 65 years , the gavel is to fall at the London Auction Mart for the final time . |
| 18 | I had another massage , warmed up again , tuned into my Walkman and then went through the reporting procedures for the fourth time in two days . |
| 19 | TWO players were sent off and four others booked as Antwerp , Belgium 's oldest club , reached the semi-finals of a European club competition for the first time . |
| 20 | Kirton spent a year as an All Black selector when Hart was out of favour and now seems embroiled in a television commentary career which largely involves tearing strips from the referee and running a one-man coaching clinic at the same time . |
| 21 | And then , of course , only on the day after you took the car to the car wash for the first time in months . |
| 22 | Luca Comani mopped up the Blue Seal Stakes for the sixth time in seven years with promising newcomer Queen 's View . |
| 23 | Foreign investors were allowed direct access into domestic stock markets for the first time from June 5 . |
| 24 | The impasse was eventually broken after the Prime Minister invoked an arcane constitutional device to create more PCP Senators [ see p. 37705 ] , and used a closure motion for the first time within Canada 's upper chamber . |
| 25 | In contentious cases , an NI inspector may require verification of the evidence of reimbursement , and that there were sufficient funds in the loan/current account at the relevant time . |
| 26 | ‘ Live ’ delivered a hit single in ‘ No Woman No Cry ’ and put Marley into the album charts for the first time . |
| 27 | It was under Dick Graham that Palace won promotion to Division Two to leave the lower reaches of the Football League for the first time in 39 years . |
| 28 | Scott , revealing details of the 500-page bid document for the first time , insisted the big selling point was the proximity of the sports venues to the competitors ' village , which would be in a canalside setting in the heart of the city . |
| 29 | Now available by mail order for the first time ( call for a brochure ) , we have 30 Make-Up Removers worth £7.25 each to give away . |
| 30 | At the first review date the completion dates are re-estimated and the new dates entered on the planned time axis in line with the review date on the elapsed time axis . |