Example sentences of "for [adj] [prep] the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Insurers usually require a Statutory Declaration as to the solvency of the transferor husband at the time of the conveyance so the practitioner must consider whether or not it is practical to ask for this at the time of the conveyance ( see further Chapter 10 ) . |
| 2 | By the same token this raises the interesting possibility that , for much of the time at least , men view their knowledge as self-evident and many women may , in the absence of alternatives , come to interpret their own experiences in terms of the categories made available by male experts . |
| 3 | They do not need to do so — for much of the time at least — simply because things work that way in any case ’ . |
| 4 | The fears of the British textile industry preoccupied British officials for much of the time between 1948 and 1950 . |
| 5 | A fine attacking batsman , he had been in the England team for much of the time since making his debut in 1982 , but after his four centuries in the summer of 1984 he had disappointed too often and his average scarcely reflected his ability — in 57 Tests he had made just over 3,000 runs at 34 before the tour began . |
| 6 | Although we had been in the land of constant daylight for several days , the sun had been hidden for much of the time by high cloud . |
| 7 | Its growth rate has been outstripped for much of the time by that of France and even , in some recent years , by that of the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | The contra leaders , sitting for much of the time in Miami in their well-cut lightweight suits and their gold watches , had purposes in view , some of them not especially noble ; the rebels in the field were mostly tired , variously motivated , and confused . |
| 9 | Dahl for much of the time in Dresden , in the same house as the German Romantic painter Caspar David Griedrich , and both were dazzled and bewitched by the golden luminosity of Italy . |
| 10 | Profit predictions for 1992 at the time of flotation in 1989 were around £20m . |
| 11 | We took so much stick for those at the time from the diehard ‘ Blues Mac ’ fans . |
| 12 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |
| 13 | In fact one of the great things about this walk is that it keeps for most of the time to the shoulder of the fells so that they fall away steep sided below you giving you clear views out and down . |
| 14 | For most of the time since 1986 , many parent companies would have done better putting their money safely in a bank deposit than risking it in the securities markets . |
| 15 | Although it can not be entirely free of period distortions , it shows more modest fluctuations in fertility than the TFR and in particular gives an estimate of fertility of over 2 children for most of the time since 1972 , not the 1.8 or so given by the IFR . |
| 16 | For most of the time since 1965 it has been contained in a separate channel isolated from the rest of criminal justice policy-making . |
| 17 | A mother in her early twenties in Coventry , who has been unemployed for most of the time since leaving school , said : |
| 18 | Unlike the UK , the Netherlands has for most of the time since 1950 pursued a consistent policy of reducing and limiting the prison population ; overall it is difficult to argue that this reduction in punishment has adversely affected the Netherlands ' crime rate , which has risen in a roughly similar manner to that in the UK over this period ( Downes , 1999 : 33–41 , 194–5 ; NACRO , 1991a : 93 ) . |
| 19 | Once arrived , the guests found themselves , for most of the time at least , caught up in a ritual of entertainment which was so smoothly organized as to be unnoticeable and , given the Empress 's indefatigable energy , so tiring as to eliminate any possibility of boredom . |
| 20 | Also for most of the time at this period in their affair Boy was either slightly drugged , or drunk , or exhausted ; and he was in a permanent state of sexual tension , for either he had just come from O's bed or he was on his way to it . |
| 21 | He lived for most of the time at his family seat at Laxton Hall , Northamptonshire , with his wife and only daughter , and frequented St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf in London . |
| 22 | Suppose , for example , you have a so-called extraverted personality , this means that for most of the time in most situations you will tend to think , feel and behave in outward going ways . |