Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The noise continued for same time and as the male laughter increased I realised the parcel must be a large one . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 , |
| 7 | The Revenue has for some time been concerned about what is done with the money . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | The work done at this time did , however , serve to educate the permanent officials in the new approach to economic policy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A possible intervention of the King 's Proctor to upset the divorce had for some time been lurking in the Government 's mind . |
| 13 | All those who went through the ordeal had at some time survived an accident or illness when their lives had been despaired of . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The 1947 Press Commission had already pointed it out — but the proportion sharing at that time was only one-fifth . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | What stance is the opponent using at any time ? |
| 18 | What you 're getting is a representation of how the band feels at that time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Sometimes we may need to make changes which we reserve the right to do at any time . |
| 21 | The Senate reserves the right to discontinue at any time the studies of any student whose academic work proves unsatisfactory . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 11.1 Save as provided in clause 11.2 no agent adviser or other person acting for the Landlord has at any time prior to the making of this agreement been authorised by the Landlord to make to the Tenant or to any agent adviser or other person acting for the Tenant any representation whatever ( whether written oral or implied ) in relation to the Site or the Premises or to any matter contained or referred to in this agreement |
| 25 | In the game beginning at that time , which is a proper subgame of the original game , it is not in the best interest of the non-deviating firm actually to minimax the other . |
| 26 | Fluorescence is said to occur where emission ceases almost immediately after withdrawal of the exciting source and where there is no thermal cause , whereas in phosphorescence the emission decays for some time after removal of excitation . |
| 27 | And erm come here a young girl and a baby , and helping to install her in in on one of the flats , and just sort of e th there was something erm happened to be wrong with one of the rubbish chutes at that time , and we were actually kicking our way through rubbish on the stairs , erm near the chute to get erm to come up . |
| 28 | Its magical chain is about 18ft long , allowing the Daemonette to reach the central stairwell and most of the half of the room in which the chair stands at any time ; when the adventurers arrive , the chair will be as shown on the map . |
| 29 | The Court of Appeal , overruling the High Court judge , granted the injunction on the ground that in ‘ the balance of convenience ’ the wish to strike at this time was more than counterbalanced by the financial loss to the employers and the inconvenience to the public . |
| 30 | Plans for the opera continued for some time : |