Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European Community ( EC ) , for example , actually came into existence largely through an acute perception of French national interests by Jean Monnet , who was mainly responsible for creating the European Coal and Steel Community — the precursor of the Common Market — as a means of protecting French industry and especially French steel makers from their more efficient German competitors ; and it is widely recognized at the present time that national interests continue to play a major part in the debates and decisions of the Community . |
| 2 | ‘ Right place at the right time . |
| 3 | Why can I read you like a book , when we only met for the first time four days ago ? |
| 4 | The Great Powers thus pressed their territorial control outwards to encompass for the first time virtually the whole surface of the globe , to centralize the world on a few centres of power . |
| 5 | They were not all written at the same time , or in that order : I had to keep struggling to write my own work as Dana 's poetic demands became more and more insistent . |
| 6 | It is pleasant to think of the two new Cuddesdon students , pushing their bicycles up the hill together from Wheatley station that July day of 1927 , and so meeting for the first time . |
| 7 | He was hard enough to resist at the best times . |
| 8 | The players all played at the same time , and they were always arguing and fighting for hedgehogs . |
| 9 | When hiring tools from HSS Hire Shops you only pay for the actual time the equipment is in use ; in addition you have the HAE assurance that the tools you select are regularly maintained , and are in a safe condition . |
| 10 | Legends about the Babylonian and Persian period were revived — or perhaps invented for the first time — to encourage faithfulness to the Mosaic Law in the new conditions . |
| 11 | Thus was a sense of community fostered between neighbouring towns and villages , the impact of the disco being stubbornly resisted at the same time . |
| 12 | Perhaps come for the first time . |
| 13 | Police have said the men were not necessarily killed at the same time . |
| 14 | Oh let's not all talk at the same time ! |
| 15 | We have seen already that the small heads of some dinosaurs with elongated torsos were no doubt a built-in safety factor against crippling head injuries , while naturally restricting at the same time the development of intelligence . |
| 16 | Moments after the fighter had dipped its wings , the RAF ensign was gently lowered for the last time at Biggin Hill , Kent . |
| 17 | Another of the Fellowship slowly moved towards the battling Time Lord . |
| 18 | ( China , while not using its veto , nevertheless abstained , thus breaching for the first time the unanimity of the five permanent members of the Security Council in supporting resolutions on the Gulf crisis . |
| 19 | Dysmap works by solving a large number of simultaneous equations at specified time intervals , using the information already calculated for the previous time interval as the basis for the current series of calculations . |
| 20 | Tess generously tried for the last time to interest Angel in the other dairymaids . |
| 21 | The environment working group of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) is finally to meet for the first time — 20 years after it was first constituted . |
| 22 | Both knew that the other knew that Steve and Maria Luisa had n't just met for the first time . |
| 23 | It looked quite terrifying — but somehow enticing at the same time . |
| 24 | Yes , just happened at the wrong time . |
| 25 | He was just losing for the third time when Celia walked back in , Mitch behind her . |
| 26 | The Heath government fell in 1974 and the Box largely fell at the same time . |
| 27 | Just click at the right time |
| 28 | Now , physically close for the first time , he found it difficult to keep his eyes off her , living flesh and remembered image seeming to fuse into a presence both potent and disturbing . |
| 29 | The Brichardi have just bred for the first time and have a healthy brood of 20 or so fry . |
| 30 | He took this in suddenly one morning as he was charging a girl the duty on a camera , hitting the thought like an air pocket and ludicrously yawning at the same time with his mouth shut so that the girl noticed his face lengthening like a mule 's . |