Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other Windows word processors show the text re-aligning in real time , which slows the process down a little . |
| 2 | The uproar in the kitchen continued for some time while Nanny pressed his face against her coat and added her own voice to the tumult . |
| 3 | Addictive disease causes the sufferer to return at some time to the substance , process or relation-ship of addiction despite various disturbances of function and despite previous negative consequences . |
| 4 | The noise continued for same time and as the male laughter increased I realised the parcel must be a large one . |
| 5 | As it happened , though the tension continued for some time after the building of the Berlin Wall in August to stop the flight of East Germans to the West , the two sides had to settle for a stalemate . |
| 6 | But three of the poems which follow were published in 1807 — Alice Fell , Stepping Westward and Elegiac Stanzas — and when we consider that the major part of The Prelude dates from this time there seems no reason to challenge the usual critical dictum that this was Wordsworth 's major creative period . |
| 7 | if it 's a many-one , watch out , cos you 're going to need , what you 're going to have to do if you need the inverse function at any time , |
| 8 | The Revenue has for some time been concerned about what is done with the money . |
| 9 | But nobody could get the movie made at that time , and the question now was whether Val was n't too old for the part . |
| 10 | Three pound fifteen shillings yeah and that 's how , that 's how the work went at that time but as I say these boatmen erm they used t they used to sit down on lock gates day in and day out and did n't have a ship to come in but I 've kno kno known them to row down the river at high tide or it 's before high tide and there 'd be another erm , there 'd be other boatmen there , one was called , he went down , he used to go down and get 'em going , there used to be a race between these two families or the and the first one got the boat , the first one roped it in you see , or wh what we call roping in , moor mooring the ship up , that was |
| 11 | The work done at this time did , however , serve to educate the permanent officials in the new approach to economic policy . |
| 12 | A new , precoded , form was completed for each new activity undertaken ; the research instrument therefore differed from the more conventional diary approach in which the work done in specific time periods is recorded ( Mintzberg , 1973 ; Stewart , 1988 ) . |
| 13 | As the law stood at that time local authorities could place limits on the number of pupils in each of its schools , and the Secretary of State said that he had no power to intervene in the Dewsbury case . |
| 14 | A possible intervention of the King 's Proctor to upset the divorce had for some time been lurking in the Government 's mind . |
| 15 | All those who went through the ordeal had at some time survived an accident or illness when their lives had been despaired of . |
| 16 | As Duclaud-Williams ( 1978 ) suggests , the operation of rent rebates and other principles embodied in the Act tended at that time to swing the balance further in favour of home buyers and away from the two rented sectors . |
| 17 | As one moves south , the circles of latitude at constant distance from the North Pole get bigger , corresponding to the universe expanding with imaginary time ( Fig. 8.1 ) . |
| 18 | The 1947 Press Commission had already pointed it out — but the proportion sharing at that time was only one-fifth . |
| 19 | This was a time of very rapid warming at the end of a little ice age and if we can understand how the climate changed at this time , we 're much better able to predict future climatic perturbations as the earth warms up due to the addition of greenhouse gases . |
| 20 | What stance is the opponent using at any time ? |
| 21 | What you 're getting is a representation of how the band feels at that time . |
| 22 | In most countries north of the Alps wine was the luxury of the rich , even though most of the wine drunk at this time was what we should call ‘ vin ordinaire ’ ; and even communion wine ( which had done so much to foster the growth of the northern vineyards ) was drunk less and less by the laity in these centuries , until communion in one kind became the rule . |
| 23 | I would imagine that the site had at one time been occupied by a large merchant 's house as four of the houses were built over a medieval cellar . |
| 24 | This , as described earlier has helped the Governors recognise with clarity the need to invest in non-contact time for teachers and appropriate training for all staff when change is envisaged , if the proposed development is to be absorbed fully into the ethos and curriculum of the school . |
| 25 | Sometimes we may need to make changes which we reserve the right to do at any time . |
| 26 | The Senate reserves the right to discontinue at any time the studies of any student whose academic work proves unsatisfactory . |
| 27 | The grant of a right of way over a road will include the following ancillary rights : ( 1 ) the right to stop for such time as is necessary to load and unload vehicles ( McIlraith v Grady [ 1968 ] 1 QB 468 ) but only where there is no other convenient place to stop London and Suburban Land v Carey ( 1991 ) 62 P & CR 480 ) ; and ( 2 ) the right to a sufficiency of vertical space immediately above the road for the purpose of loading and unloading ( VT Engineering Ltd v Barland ( Richard ) & Co Ltd ( 1968 ) 19 P & CR 890 ) . |
| 28 | Historically , the town looked at one time as if would become the main centre of Thames Valley affairs . |
| 29 | They resolved that , if the money was now obtainable , it should be applied to assist the funds of the journal designated at that time the Veterinary Record ( not connected with the present journal of that name ) which was edited by professors of the College . |
| 30 | In-house facilities management and development generates about 25% of revenues , £1m comes from long-term software support , the rest comes from on-site time and materials consultancy and development work . |