Example sentences of "[adj] the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under this head belongs every form of words by which , in speaking of a proposed measure of relief , an intimation is given that the time at which the proposal is made , whenever it may be , is too early for the purpose . |
| 2 | In we were fortunate in that the time of the introduction of L M S coincided with the all too brief period when this group was in control of the Council and as the window of opportunity opened to get off to a flying start |
| 3 | ‘ Is n't this the time of day Frenchmen meet their mistresses ? |
| 4 | ‘ But is n't this the time of year when the hay is almost finished . |
| 5 | Mr. Roy Hughes : With Welsh coalfields in a near terminal condition , with massive redundancies in the steel industry , including a major closure , is this the time for the Government to come forward with proposals to double the toll on the Seven bridge , our main access point ? |
| 6 | Tack into a gap once you have expended about half the time to the start from the buoy , then even if you sail back at the same speed , you can not be early . |
| 7 | Well I have been I 've been in bed half the time with |
| 8 | Both halves have their merits , but together their appeal will be limited to those teachers of computer science , who if lecturing on the impact of motor traffic on society , would spend half the time on the way sparking plugs work . |
| 9 | I mean , you slide around half the time on your bottom ( just like Joanne Conway ! ) . |
| 10 | No one here likes you , the way you sit off by yourself at meals half the time as if you 're waiting for someone who 's good enough for you . |
| 11 | My lesson lasted about half the time of Tony 's , terminating as he was explaining the purpose of the deadman 's handle to me when a gust filled his chute and hauled him off in fine style . |
| 12 | Though originally designed for the other end of the alimentary canal , it was ideal for my purposes ; it was virtually unbreakable and gave accurate readings in half the time of an ordinary clinical thermometer . |
| 13 | And as packing can take half the time of the total removal and even more in certain circumstances , most people opt for that . |
| 14 | The consequence of this ‘ friendly and useful ’ advice was that the parts healed in half the time after the second operation as they did after the first . |
| 15 | In the Calder Valley district , the Yorkshire Water Authority 's data showed the EC limits were met less than half the time in 1988 . |
| 16 | REM sleep can be identified with active sleep in the neonate , who spends about half the time in this state . |
| 17 | It 's not something I particularly thought an awful lot of until I came on crime prevention , because before that I was in police uniform with marked cars with the radio , although half the time in Harlow , the radios do n't work cos we 're getting . |
| 18 | The shorter the time to delivery , the smaller the absolute size of the basis , as expected . |
| 19 | The clearer the goals and the shorter the time in which they are to be achieved , then the greater the cohesion of the group . |
| 20 | 2 The time at which reasonableness is considered It is generally accepted that the relevant time at which reasonableness is to be considered is the time of entering the contract . |
| 21 | Cherry Vanilla was doing nothing — she was eating fruit and breaking out all the time as a result , Jane was doing nothing too — she 'd started a group called Queen Elizabeth which played little , low-life funky bars on the Lower Eastside , Tony Zanetta was working coding , which is a very ignominious job that out-of-work actors do in New York , and I was working at 16 Magazine as a tea boy . |
| 22 | Experimentation and development go on all the time as the company searches for new ways to capture and build on the knowledge already accumulated by its workers . |
| 23 | Given that private conversations between journalists and politicians take place all the time as the former seek their exclusives and the latter seek to further their policies or careers ( or to wreck other people 's ) , it is strangely perverse to ignore perhaps the most authoritative off-the-record source of all , Mr Bernard Ingham . |
| 24 | Far from being wrapped up in the Tour and excited by it , she looked all the time as if she would sooner be anywhere else . |
| 25 | Like Williams , Hill was defiant about his talent and ambitions , saying : ‘ I am not too disheartened because I am improving all the time as a Grand Prix racer and you have to remember it is my first season . |
| 26 | He waited a long while , looking out all the time for Caspar . |
| 27 | I wondered how these men had managed to endure thirty or more trips in what must have been far worse conditions than this ; in bad weather , being shot at , having to concentrate on map reading and peering through bomb sites , and watching out all the time for enemy fighters . |
| 28 | Some mothers answer all the time for the children , which makes the Committee think the child lacks initiative . ’ |
| 29 | We use them all the time for going places . |
| 30 | And although it may be true that readers of Hot Press for example , are n't led by sexual ignorance into seeing man and woman only as adversaries , there also are those girls who are forced to go to England all the time for abortions and they ca n't be that far from the world I depict . |