Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] the 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 | Hinkley Point A , for example , even with the benefit of the ‘ mechanized army ’ so lyrically portrayed by The Times correspondent , took seven and a half years to build instead of its projected five , and went about 25 per cent over budget ( £34 million ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Reading and eating were always metaphorically linked at the time . |
| 9 | The other diner was plainly downstairs in the bar and did not appear during the whole of the lunchtime and had still not appeared by the time I had finished and paid my bill . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | He said what he most probably felt at the time , which was the heat of the moment . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Ipswich for example , was providing a full service and has now actually gone to the times that we 're providing . |
| 17 | They are most readily shown at the times when the young are hatching and again when they are fledging . |
| 18 | You may find that she will need to lean on you a little for several months to speak and act for her in matters she can not give her full attention to , because she will be quite rightly absorbed for the time being in grieving , which is mentally and emotionally very hard work indeed . |
| 19 | It is important to hold on to our hats and remember that it was quite well reviewed at the time . |
| 20 | The advent of commercial and domestic freezing equipment means that what we eat is no longer limited by the time of year — although whether you consider the flavour of food which has been deep frozen for any length of time to be as good is another matter . |
| 21 | If the load conditions change , however , the timer period no longer corresponds to the time taken to reach the overshoot position and the resultant response is poor . |
| 22 | It is more than probable that during the period of Haymo that the Church at Halling was repaired and enlarged ; the chancel and tower being a century earlier however was most likely built during the time Laurence was Bishop , 1251–74 . |
| 23 | The result is that the hammer or the bullet is pressing against its target for a period , perhaps about a hundredth of a second , which is very long compared with the time which is required to conduct the energy away from the point of impact in the form of waves of sound or stress . |
| 24 | Of course , in the High Court , a case of particular significance may be reported , but the law report will almost certainly not appear before the time allowed for appealing has passed . |
| 25 | Certainly not compared to the time he got caught messing around on the roof of Battersea Power Station trying to nick the lead . |
| 26 | Thus the time taken to unroll a carpet is very short compared with the time interval between the arrival of successive consignments . |
| 27 | Her nerves were very nearly shredded by the time they ordered coffee . |
| 28 | Until that late date , the Cecils successfully opposed any move to enclose the fields , for reasons which were never fully disclosed at the time . |