Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regardless of the amount of time involved it seems likely that staff will always opt for more time if this is offered to them . |
| 2 | Only with the passage of time did the two channels come to be seen widely as part of a single public service system . |
| 3 | It only has the force of a recommended practice whereas I believe it should have the full force of a standard , but at least it is there and perhaps in the fullness of time it may attain higher status . |
| 4 | And so in the course of time , we come to speak of these rights as equitable rights ( because they have their origin in the protection of Equity or the Court of Chancery ) or equally we refer to them as " beneficial rights " because they tell you not who has the legal title ( the legal estate ) but who is entitled to enjoyment or the benefit of the land . |
| 5 | Labour present is Neil Kinnock , who speaks for 63 minutes and quotes Robert Frost about miles to go and promises to keep , and about a brighter dawn when poverty , privilege , fear , disease , woe , and war shall live only in the memory of time . |
| 6 | I was n't deceived , for Nour had been kind when I had been what he called ‘ good ’ , and I had thought that a new Nour had been born who was made for me , designed for all my needs and desires , and we would be unchangingly happy together until the end of time . |
| 7 | The prosecution laboured long on the amount of time the whittling had taken which therefore proved considerable premeditation . |
| 8 | ‘ it is , in my view , clear that the court , in considering whether a continuing situation of one or other of the kinds described in section 1(2) ( a ) exists , must do so at the point of time immediately before the process of protecting the child concerned is first put into motion . |
| 9 | A train — which , as Peter said , the law-abiding might wait ten minutes for — arrived and bore the boy away in the nick of time . |
| 10 | Anyway in the fullness of time er went to er |
| 11 | ‘ Like the U.S. cavalry , just in the nick of time , ’ he said . |
| 12 | One Candy owner , Eleanor Bellamy , has already died , and others have escaped from their smoke-filled homes just in the nick of time . |
| 13 | Enter Taligent with its promised solution for rapid applications prototyping and customization in a hardware-independent environment just in the nick of time . |
| 14 | ‘ Fish to fry , ’ she joined with him , and rolled her eyes , having seen the awful pun — typical of Dad — coming just in the nick of time . |
| 15 | Everything is made to change just in the nick of time , and even the return letter office suspends its laws that Jane Eyre may carry on a tale with effect . |
| 16 | Just by the coincidence of time : we visit her the same evening she 's burgled . ’ |
| 17 | Possibly in the nick of time , Israel began to export an appetite killer , consisting of pulverised algae . |
| 18 | The immigrant ship to South Africa , and all that followed , was still in the womb of time ; but at that moment I resolved that though I would grieve for Leslie for the rest of my life , I would yet to go forward , lighting my way by the torch of the incandescent spirit . |
| 19 | His memory of her , which for years , a traitor to grief and to their love , he had resolutely tried to suppress because the pain had seemed unbearable , had gradually been replaced by a boyish , romantic dream of gentleness and beauty now fixed for ever beyond the depredation of time . |
| 20 | The Atlantic has waged an unceasing war against this gaunt headland ever since the beginning of time , hurling its waves in fury at the unyielding rocks without respite ; there is always the noise of thrashing waters . |
| 21 | Because we know that the rules keep changing slightly during the course of time , it does not follow that there should be no rules . |
| 22 | As he studied the list of names of men who had evaded the Dragoons , the names of 2 Ayrshiremen took his attention , both for the length of time they had eluded ‘ justice ’ . |
| 23 | What I said was there was some discretion was in the hands of the Home Secretary when he brought forward that commencement date and what he would have in mind is of course the er er not merely what happens er er i er erm in the er er our colleague countries in the community on their commencing er their changes , er but also in the kind of time we would actually need , political parties would need , candidates would need , to run an efficient election campaign here . |
| 24 | But there are also maternal ailments attributable to the number of births , the ages at which women bear children and possibly also to the amount of time that elapses between births , presumably , among other things , because the reproductive pattern influences ability to meet demands that pregnancy and breastfeeding make upon the body . |
| 25 | The gain to a firm from reneging on the collusive agreement will depend partly on cost , demand , and capacity parameters and partly on the length of time for which a higher profit than that realized under the agreement can be earned before retaliation by the other firms takes place . |
| 26 | The extent to which the PCF was committed to popular front cultural politics can be appreciated both by the amount of time and energy that it devoted to the anti-fascist congresses , peace movements and revolutionary cultural associations of the period , and by its willingness to engage in the policy of la main tendue ( " the outstretched hand " ) in its relations with sympathisers of any persuasion , ideological or religious , willing to collaborate in its struggle against capitalist warmongering , imperialism , fascism and oppression . |
| 27 | The kitchen clock reminded him sharply of the passage of time , and urgency lent cunning to the rector 's stratagems . |
| 28 | ‘ We have a long way to go before we are able to record and translate accurately such imprints of ourselves left behind in the void of time . |
| 29 | So we can just , if we have look now at the effect of time on output to supply diagram , okay , in the short run supply will be very ine inelastic . |
| 30 | They had reacted badly to the amount of time she was forced to spend on organising the first meeting . |