Example sentences of "[prep] [art] time [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any change would be gradual and for the time local parties were left with a free choice . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I fought here 22 years ago , about the time this kid was about to get potty-trained , ’ he said . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The boys talked nostalgically about the way fighting had been a part of their fathers ' world ; ‘ about the time old man MacIlroy , half-pissed , had taken on ali the men folk of his very extended family , at his sister 's wedding , and stili had time to call for more beer . |
| 7 | After a time teaching in a Scottish school , Fettes , the degree got him a fellowship in mathematics at his own college of Magdalene ; where he remained the rest of his long life — teaching mathematics , holding various college offices , going every week to Emmanuel Congregational chapel , and becoming after a time one of its deacons or church officers . |
| 8 | After a time this gentleman leant forward and tapped Baldwin on the knee . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Now , the government has shifted the focus of curriculum planning from availability ( the options system ) to entitlement , and has unwittingly ensured ( by filling most of the time available with the statutory curriculum ) that the dimensions , skills and themes of this entitlement can be met most easily inside the foundation subjects , and not outside them . |
| 11 | She must also become more efficient herself in the use of the time available . |
| 12 | This part of the meeting can take a large proportion of the time available . |
| 13 | Much of the time available to the other language tutors appointed had to be spent of the vital tasks of practical translation work and the making of term banks and so on — leaving little time for broader ‘ language awareness ’ issues to be addressed . |
| 14 | Yet the urge to press on , paradoxically , could lead to questioning becoming not more but less effective and therefore a somewhat inefficient use of the time available . |
| 15 | We must further admit institutional constraints in the form of the time available to study Renaissance writing on a degree course . |
| 16 | of the time available in Committee should be spent on clauses 1 to 14 , which deal with further education funding councils . |
| 17 | But most of the time such punishment is wasted because it does not produce repentance or reform . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is his estimate of the time necessary to switch from the current system for collecting national insurance to one based on annual assessment . |
| 20 | But most of the time colonial appointments were made in a way that reflected friendships and pressures in London . |
| 21 | ‘ They 're built to cope with the largest demand , although most of the time that demand is simply not required . |
| 22 | We now see that the intermittency factor is most appropriately defined as the fraction of the time that vorticity fluctuations are occurring . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | Targets for M3 were an important part of monetary policy from 1976 to 1985 , and for part of the time other broader measures ( similar to the modern definition of M5 ) were targeted . |
| 26 | ‘ We took Laura to one evening reception where she spent most of the time entertaining folk in the kitchen . |
| 27 | Henry Miller spoke of the time unseen powers dictated the Tropic of Cancer to him . |
| 28 | Most of the time sensible princes deliberately took steps to avoid so chancy a business . |
| 29 | Most of the time this isolation is what I seek , but today I just feel lonely . |
| 30 | 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 . |