Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have just arrived here with everything we have soaking wet and so we must just sit still till our clothes are dried and I take the opportunity of the idle time to write to you — |
| 2 | A new civil code which came into force in The Netherlands on 1 January this year introduced a number of changes , among which was the reduction of the statutory time limit within which criminal proceedings must be initiated against thieves or holders of stolen property from thirty years to twenty . |
| 3 | The material is impounded until the expiry of the ordinary time within which an appeal may be instituted , after which it may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of . |
| 4 | If an abatement notice , served in compliance with s.93 of the 1936 Act , is not complied with at the expiry of the specified time , or the local authority thinks that the nuisance , although abated , is likely to recur , s.94(1) of that Act provides that it is the duty of the local authority to institute summary proceedings for a nuisance order , in order to obtain compliance with the notice or otherwise abatement of the nuisance . |
| 5 | The minister did not believe that Tameside Council could properly implement the change within the limited time available . |
| 6 | Whether this clamour is loud enough to bring about so fundamental a change in the EEC at the very time when Community institutions wish to move in the opposite direction is a question which needs now to be addressed . |
| 7 | The rate of shell growth was determined by measuring and marking the edge of the shell at a recorded time , returning the mussels to their natural habitat , then remeasuring the shell dimensions after 1–5 years of in situ growth . |
| 8 | I sold it and used the money for a good time . " |
| 9 | It is also our intention — this differs from what has been the case for a long time — that they will be fully manned units . |
| 10 | Then suddenly he sees Piquet go into a spin and does n't get back into the field for a long time . |
| 11 | We will continue to from two three we will continue to dig the foundations in the mean time we hope the concrete the concrete will be arriving on site to complete those footings . |
| 12 | The buyer is then entitled to repudiate the contract within a reasonable time and get his or her money back or return the horse and claim damages . |
| 13 | The company called the public inquiry at Weeley , after Tendring District Council failed to give a decision on the plans in the required time limit . |
| 14 | Having called the election at a bad time , defending the 13-year record , and with an anti-Government trend growing significantly , the Conservatives have found it difficult to say clearly why they should go on and on . |
| 15 | Bills are certificates containing a promise to pay a specified sum of money to the holder at a specified time in the future . |
| 16 | Is the certificate worth the extra time and considerable effort involved on top of implementing a TQM programme ? |
| 17 | The one unambiguous method of obtaining such cells it to disaggregate embryos to single cells and observe the cultures at a defined time interval as discussed in Section 3 . |
| 18 | Although the London Borough of Southwark agreed to maintain the level of funding to some of the projects for a short time after the demise of the I. L. E. A. , that support can no longer be guaranteed . |
| 19 | He had been standing in the kitchen for a long time . |
| 20 | They played rummy with Patsy in the kitchen for a long time because Mother and Father went across the road to Dr and Mrs Johnson 's house . |
| 21 | The snag is , scientists do not yet know whether patients taking the drug for a long time are better off with a little testosterone , or none . |
| 22 | They knew he was out of the boardroom at the right time . |
| 23 | He did n't make it to the course on the next day , was sacked , and always maintained that if he had n't given up the drink for those ten days or so and ‘ dried out ’ he would not have got so drunk , would have been on the course at the appointed time , would not have lost his job , and would have have carried for yet another Open Champion . |
| 24 | In the course of a short time the farmer was sufficiently restored to relate his own story , as already recited , and in gratitude for his miraculous escape ordered a silver collar to be made for his friendly protector , as a perpetual remembrance of the transaction . |
| 25 | I would not want to rule out closer contacts with the Iranians at the right time . |
| 26 | She had the light on the whole time and the radio blaring . |
| 27 | ‘ I really have n't had a chance to press my claims and I sincerely believe I am pushing uphill to get back into the side for a long time . ’ |
| 28 | Captain Allan Border said : ‘ Obviously I feel a bit sorry for Jonesy because he 's been in the side for a long time . |
| 29 | It is a convention in Elizabethan drama that slander is always believed , which can be explained perhaps from the necessities of the limited time available , or is perhaps a truth about life ( how many of us instantly disbelieve bad report ? ) . |
| 30 | The work had dropped off yeah , and then I were on the , on the labour for a short time and erm then I got a job next door to where I lived , straight next door . |