Example sentences of "[prep] [art] time [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laurie Mains , the All Black coach , was plainly displeased at Schuler 's decision , for it came about the time that Mains was hoping rugby league scouts might not be chasing his All Blacks in the next few months . |
| 2 | ‘ I fought here 22 years ago , about the time this kid was about to get potty-trained , ’ he said . |
| 3 | The launch of the Linn CD player , an exotic two-box player priced at ten pounds less than £2600 , comes just a decade into the era of CD , and at a time when record player sales are on their uppers , and W H Smith , the UK 's largest purveyor of prerecorded music , is pledged to withdraw LPs from its stores by about the time this issue hits the newsstands . |
| 4 | About the time this match took place , Tonks was in the IRB meeting room alongside the French delegate and was not impressed that they had not made him aware of the game — if they in fact knew about it . |
| 5 | After a time this gentleman leant forward and tapped Baldwin on the knee . |
| 6 | After a time this ability becomes as instinctive as is the power of singing or whistling a note of any pitch desired , but it should be obvious that horn parts should keep to ‘ vocal ’ intervals or stepwise movement as far as possible . |
| 7 | But most of the time such punishment is wasted because it does not produce repentance or reform . |
| 8 | Unless Wordsworth 's poetry is studied in the context of the economic history of the time many important points will be missed , and the intention of whole poems may be misconstrued . |
| 9 | ‘ They 're built to cope with the largest demand , although most of the time that demand is simply not required . |
| 10 | We now see that the intermittency factor is most appropriately defined as the fraction of the time that vorticity fluctuations are occurring . |
| 11 | It 's a convenient unit , perhaps a useful way of thinking about it is in terms of the time that light takes about eight minutes to reach us from the sun . |
| 12 | I watched both them and Mathews closely throughout both days while he was giving evidence , and for most of the time all three of the judges had their heads and eyes down on the notes they were keeping . ’ |
| 13 | Most of the time this isolation is what I seek , but today I just feel lonely . |
| 14 | Half of the time this gives rise to tritium and a proton , and ( almost ) the rest of the time gives helium-3 and a neutron . |
| 15 | For most of the time this involved consecutive interpreting , i.e. making notes of what the speaker said and then at the end ( of perhaps an hour 's talk ) repeating the speech in the target language . |
| 16 | For most of the time this works imperfectly and simultaneous interpretation of BSL to English is frequently marked by the interpreter requesting repetition or further information from the deaf person . |
| 17 | As both parents spoke to him in Punjabi for most of the time this did not seem surprising . |
| 18 | erm And a lot of the time this gentleman would have been sorting through the data , finding out who owed how much money , writing them polite letters , and this is the sort of thing you can do very quickly with a computer . |
| 19 | The weather forecast for Nottinghamshire all parts will stay dry today and although there 'll still be a good deal of cloud for much of the time some bright or perhaps sunny intervals are possible . |
| 20 | All parts will stay dry today and although they 'll still be a good deal of cloud for much of the time some bright or perhaps sunny intervals are possible . |
| 21 | We would teach the electronics necessary to devise the tests and how it worked and things like that , and sure enough by the end of the time some of them had built devices , well all sorts of devices . |
| 22 | Fortunately , 90% of the time these problems can be cured , but there are times when , despite the cause being visible , the treatment is less evident . |
| 23 | For much of the time these small market towns may well have appeared sleepy to travellers who were familiar with the hustle and bustle of the big cities , but every week on market day and more especially at the time of the annual fairs they were transformed by an influx of visitors . |
| 24 | A description of 1678 is so close to the kind of situation which Mayhew would give of London in the mid-nineteenth century , that it must be taken as applying just as much to the eighteenth : a poor woman that goes three days a week to wash or scoure abroad , or one that is employed in nurse-keeping three or four months in a year , or a poor market-woman who attends three or four mornings in a week with her basket , and all the rest of the time these folks have little or nothing to do . |
| 25 | For a time all seems to go well with her studies ; she triumphs over male and female competitors … |
| 26 | For a time many of these refugee families were housed in five halls belonging to three Presbyterian , a Methodist and an Anglican church in the Rathcoole area . |
| 27 | For a time this story of Jacob at the Jabbok runs true to plot . |
| 28 | Cambridge were left high and dry for a time this afternoon as Oxford followed in the footsteps of many a champion boxer and left the opposition waiting at the official weigh-in . |
| 29 | There are some , like erm , oak trees live five or six hundred years if they 're lucky , pines can live for a thousand years , giant tortoises for two hundred , well these are quite impressive figures , but let's face it it 's not very long , erm , compared with the time that evolution has been at it . |
| 30 | I 'll start from the time that darkness came on . |