Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prime Minister Mouloud Hamrouche , who was to stand for election for the first time , said that the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) might consider entering into a coalition with one of the secular opposition parties , either before or after the election . |
| 2 | The need for insolvency at the relevant time does not apply to transactions at an undervalue entered into less than two years before the individual is adjudged bankrupt . |
| 3 | In a separate housing initiative in the north-east , plans were revealed for housing co-operatives in Grampian to build homes for rent for the first time . |
| 4 | She hadgone to Banbury social services for help at the same time as her cousin Ian Barnes . |
| 5 | In 1786 , when Robert Burns was preparing his poetry for publication for the first time , he took his manuscript to Glenconner and read his poems to the Tennant family for their approval or otherwise . |
| 6 | But the explanation could have been phrased in a different way : it was precisely because she was pregnant that Ms Webb would be unavailable for work at the critical time . |
| 7 | You may refuse to believe it 's happened to you : some people who 've been made redundant pretend everything 's the way it was and set off for work at the same time , then spend hours hanging around the streets , teashops or libraries until they can go home at the usual time . |
| 8 | Advice on time-zone transitions depends very much upon the kind of journey being made , so we consider the following possibilities : • A flight crossing only a few ( one or two ) time zones ; • A flight crossing several time zones , ( to the west or east ) and when the stop-over , before returning home , is short ; • A flight crossing several time zones to the west where there is sufficient time and need for adjustment to the new time zone ; • A flight as in the last example , but to the east . |
| 9 | The second distinction between the results here and those of Kreps and Wilson is the behaviour of play in the infinite time horizon case . |
| 10 | The problem is one of the continuing dominance of traditional models of assessment at the same time as trying to introduce other models based on quite different educational premises . |
| 11 | Even the bookmakers lost faith in the world champion who began the event without the status of favourite for the first time in three years . |
| 12 | But whereas before he had seen Scouting as a gateway of opportunity to the big time , 20 years on , the movement seemed narrow and provincial somehow , more concerned with preserving an America that was fast slipping away , if it had ever truly existed , than with helping to shape the country 's youth to face an uncertain future . |
| 13 | The young man 's car , a Jensen Interceptor was out of action at the relevant time . |
| 14 | It is impossible to experience both fear and peace of mind at the same time . |
| 15 | Whether jury after retirement should be allowed to hear tape recording of interview for the first time — practice |
| 16 | But it seemed Lucie had lost a lot of weight since the last time they had played it . |
| 17 | It was not until 1966 that the transcontinental standard-gauge line was completed , thereby connecting Sydney to Perth without break of gauge for the first time . |
| 18 | It was during this period that the boroughs of Bethnal Green , Stepney , Mile End and Poplar witnessed a net loss of population for the first time . |
| 19 | A MANCHESTER United starlet of the 1980s is plotting the downfall of Prescot for the second time in seven days . |
| 20 | Third , the political turbulence of the seventies born of economic failure and increasing unemployment , destroyed consensus and brought " conviction politics " and real choice back to the fore with a vengeance : the Conservatives rediscovered old roots in their opposition to state intervention and their commitment to the free market ; the Labour Party rediscovered socialism and attacked the free market of capitalism at the same time as they were eager to fashion an interventionist state ; the specifics of nationalist sentiment ebbed and flowed in unpredictable ways ; and only the Liberal-SDP Alliance seemed eager to try and recreate the moderate consensus politics and policies of the fifties , and they did this despite growing signs that the social and economic conditions that made those policies viable had ceased to exist . |
| 21 | We can assess all the relevant factors for you , and produce the right amount of cash at the appropriate time . |
| 22 | He 's won awards for his skill , now he 's putting that to the test and hopefully earn a bit of cash at the same time . |
| 23 | Their mission to take troops and weapons to any theatre of war in the quickest time possible . |
| 24 | COLIN Montgomerie experienced the torture chamber of Baltusrol for the first time yesterday and insisted the time had come for Europe to demolish America 's stranglehold on the U.S. Open . |
| 25 | After weeks of private anguish followed by questionable closed-door lobbying of the leading minds of the Royal College of Science , Darwin found himself forced to go public on the issue of evolution for the first time , when both their papers were read at the Linnean Society of London on that momentous July evening of 1858 . |
| 26 | Whether divorce operates in the same way as widowhood in this regard is really a matter of speculation at the present time . |
| 27 | Any contribution , no matter how small , is very much appreciated and I am sure that you and your colleagues will have a lot of fun at the same time ! |
| 28 | By way of background to what follows , I must first state my position on two related issues , since they are issues that may arise over and over again in the discussion of education at the present time . |
| 29 | The success of any navigation is governed by the ability to supply the right amount of water at the right time . |
| 30 | It is difficult , at the best of times , to balance on a broomstick , but when you are trying to carry a heavy bucket of water at the same time , it is virtually impossible . |