Example sentences of "[adj] in the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point it is replaced by different patterns , some of which are different in the time sequence of the light flashes from the one that he/she has previously seen . |
| 2 | He seemed especially interested in the times he had Vulcan out at night , as he did so often last year . |
| 3 | The successfully transformed supermarket chain and multiple retailer Tesco — ranked 22 in The Times 1000 and employing 71 000 — similarly described headhunters as good servants but bad masters : their work should be closely defined and controlled by the client . |
| 4 | He had changed so much in the time they 'd spent together . |
| 5 | It does , but the stars , although they 're moving fast by terrestrial standards , are moving very slowly by comparison with the vast distances we 're talking about , and they do n't change their distances by very much in the time that we 're watching . |
| 6 | Lynda Philamore , head of assessment and recruitment at British Airways — ranked 26 in The Times 1000 and employer of 44000 — was exceptional in this survey in expressing almost entirely negative views about the executive search industry , despite the publicity surrounding the success of headhunted chief executive Colin Marshall . |
| 7 | David Tagg at Grand Metropolitan , the drinks , hotels , brewing , retailing and food-producing giant ranking number 10 in The Times 1000 and employing nearly 150 000 , spoke cheerfully of his general liking of headhunters . |
| 8 | It seems likely , in short , that they have erred through applying principles which are valid for a later period but were not yet operative in the time of Molla Husrev . |
| 9 | analyse the impacts of that sector on the environment , both beneficial and adverse ; where possible place values on them ( ambitious , and perhaps not often feasible in the time available ) ; consider whether policies in that sector contribute to sustainable development in the long term . |
| 10 | Sainsbury 's , ranking 17 in The Times 1000 with 82 000 employees , when considering appointing a senior departmental director , chose to use headhunters for ‘ political reasons rather than convenience or speed ’ because they could then be informed in detail about the market for candidates . |
| 11 | Adrian Gozzard , formerly Director of Human Resources of Plessey , the telecommunications and electronics giant ( number 93 in The Times 1000 and employer of over 30000 ) , who has had long and extensive experience of search , has turned time and time again to headhunting firms , despite having used a full-time , in-house recruitment manager , and working hard on internal management development . |
| 12 | Everyone was keen to work hard at seeing as much as possible in the time given — including some places not normally open to the public , for which Martin Randall had made special arrangements . |
| 13 | All those who were kind enough to offer me hospitality wanted me to see as much as possible in the time when I was not teaching . |
| 14 | Under these conditions your anxiety will be greater , as you are keen to earn as much money as possible in the time allowed . |
| 15 | On the other hand , he is suspicious of nutshell knowledge and footnote knowledge , and he wants as full an explanation of everything that is relevant as is possible in the time allowed . |
| 16 | Some of the increase must be due to migration as the maximum increase biologically possible in the time would be a doubling of the population . |
| 17 | They followed as far as possible in the time available , the practices and procedures of the permanent parliamentary boundary commission , indeed of the six members of the committees , five were members of the parliamentary boundary commissions and they were appointed to the committees after consultation with the opposition parties . |
| 18 | In what ways do you think that daily life was more pleasant in the time before this migration to the towns than it was afterwards ? |
| 19 | A similar gender difference was apparent in the time spent helping someone who lived in a separate household ; here 32 per cent of women but only 22 per cent of men spent ten hours or more each week on care-giving ( Green , 1988 , p. 21 ) . |
| 20 | ( Hobbes 's thought was eminently practical in the time of the English civil war . ) |
| 21 | Retail giant Kingfisher — number 51 in The Times 1000 with over 56 000 employees — has been , according to Peter Samuel , Director of Organisation and Management Development , a wide and extensive user of search . |
| 22 | The tradition of Anglo-Austrian co-operation against France , wearing thin in the time of Walpole and strained unbearably by the peace settlement of 1748 , was also submerged by the events of the 1750s . |
| 23 | Confectionery , food and soft drinks manufacturer Cadbury Schweppes — ranked 60 in The Times 1000 and with nearly 27500 employees — was also prepared to give credit to headhunters . |
| 24 | And you can always catch me , if making an interview is difficult in the time |
| 25 | As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness , |
| 26 | The present texts indicate that the 70 souls of Joseph 's day had risen to two or three million at the time of the Exodus ( Numbers 1 ) and to at least five million in the time of David ( 2 Samuel 24:9 ; 1 Chronicles 21:5 ) . |
| 27 | Unemployment has risen by nearly 1 million in the time that the hon. Gentleman has been Chancellor and Prime Minister , but still he refuses to do anything useful to stop that remorseless rise . |
| 28 | The Rutland jurors swore on 7 December 1299 that all the vills and lands outside the bounds they then set out had been afforested in the time of King John . |
| 29 | Anonymity lasted until 1967 in The Times and for nearly as long in parts of the other quality papers . |
| 30 | These were as unquestioned in the time of Jenkin and Darwin as our speciesist assumptions of human rights , human dignity , and the sacredness of human life are unquestioned today . |