Example sentences of "[prep] [art] time [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | As both parents spoke to him in Punjabi for most of the time this did not seem surprising . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | But for many cities jealousy of Milan was as powerful as hatred of the emperor 's control , and a rival faction formed under Pavia which was for a time loyal to Frederick — a map of the two teams shows in a fascinating way how difficult it was to love one 's neighbour in this world of riotous freedom and traditional internecine feuds . |
| 42 | For a time all seems to go well with her studies ; she triumphs over male and female competitors … |
| 43 | For stepping rates where the phase is only excited for a time similar to the winding time constant , however , the wave form [ Fig.5 .2(b) ] is considerably distorted by the nearly exponential rise and decay of the phase current . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Here Owen set about the great social reforms which made New Lanark for a time one of the most celebrated places in Britain ; he improved both the working and the living conditions of those on whose labour he depended , and proposed a system of universal co-operation in industry in place of the misery of exploitation . |
| 46 | Phil , a 17-year-old currently in borstal for a cheque book fraud , and for a time one of the most respected ‘ hard men ’ of the London Road End , had these comments to make about his role as an aggro leader : |
| 47 | For a time Russian influence increased . |
| 48 | For a time Soviet rule appeared to collapse in the face of support for the nationalist Azerbaijan Popular Front . |
| 49 | It is a fact that for a time last year , there were no statements at all being issued about Northern Ireland by the Labour Party headquarters . |
| 50 | Soon this was to be entered and then only Tibet and Ethiopia would remain for a time unresponsive to European politics , ideas and technology . |
| 51 | On his return to the Westminster he was for a time senior house officer in the department of clinical measurement before becoming anaesthetic research registrar . |
| 52 | They tell us that a stonemason 's third marriage at 57 was his happiest ; or that a retired doctor found ‘ life was for a time difficult ’ for lack of ‘ any special hobbies . ’ |
| 53 | The second big battle that Russell had in his unswerving pursuit of truth was with German idealism , mainly Hegelian idealism , which by a very curious aberration from the standard empiricism of the British people , took root in Oxford and Cambridge in the last half of the last century , and was almost for a time unchallenged . |
| 54 | Moreover , with a politically more secure government and fewer power cuts ( the benefits of new investment were gradually coming through ) , the threat of public exposure could not be as effectively used by the Boards against Whitehall , though the mandarins remained for a time concerned that Citrine was aiming at such an anti-government campaign . |
| 55 | This concept of ‘ legal despotism ’ had for a time considerable importance , at least in intellectual circles . |
| 56 | One or two , their horses killed under them , were held for a time unable to fall , and others slithered into the river , its shore by now churned into slime , and drowned there in their harness . |
| 57 | For a time briefer than the smallest period measurable by today 's clocks , the universe grew ever faster , as energy stored up in some hitherto unsuspected field of force was released . |
| 58 | Its return to Rome towards the end of the fourteenth century resulted in a schism with two , and for a time three , rivals for the papacy . |
| 59 | For a time this story of Jacob at the Jabbok runs true to plot . |
| 60 | 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 . |