Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middlesbrough lost 3–2 after extra time to Dynamo Dresden after leading 2–0 in the final of a youth tournament in Austria . |
| 2 | He favoured elaborately tied cravats in white cambric , but these were too difficult for the middle-class man of Victorian times to be bothered with . |
| 3 | The allocation of broadcasting time to the various languages was a delicate and controversial issue . |
| 4 | Mrs Thatcher turned from being the least popular Prime Minister of modern times to becoming an Iron Britannia , a new Boadicea , the very embodiment of toughness , triumph , and grim resolve . |
| 5 | It was scored by Ally McCoist after he reacted quickly to a cross from Nevin that evaded Malta 's blanket defence and was the first of modern times to be recorded by Scotland at Ibrox . |
| 6 | Our strong regional and branch structure is a tremendous asset and I pay tribute to the many members centrally and regionally who give a great deal of voluntary time to the profession and their Institute . |
| 7 | The Centre 's displays illustrate the changing landscape from geological times to the present date . |
| 8 | It was a port from Norman times to the 19th century , and has an 11th-century castle perched high on the cliffs above the River Wye and a pretty church with a Norman nave . |
| 9 | Recently opened at the Museum of London 's Treasury is ‘ Treasures & Trinkets ’ — jewellery from pre-Roman times to the 1930s . |
| 10 | American history , from pre-Columbian times to the present , is told through more than eighty works of art with accompanying texts in English and Spanish by Edith Pavese in United States History in Notable Works of Art , ( £25 , $29.95 ) . |
| 11 | It is only a short way from this position to punishment of artists whose views are seen as heretical , a tendency which led in medieval times to burnings at the stake and , more recently , to the horrors of the Maoist ‘ cultural revolution ’ . |
| 12 | The performing arts ( including cinema ) receive particular attention , as also contemporary Chinese literature and the development of popular fiction from medieval times to the present . |
| 13 | There is little legend attached in early times to the name of Theseus ; and his build-up at this period as a companion and analogue of Herakles seems as a propaganda-figure for the Athenian democracy . |
| 14 | They moved nothing except their eyes , but they moved in perfect time to the footsteps , marking the position , flicking backwards and forwards as the human crossed the room above . |
| 15 | It was not a habit of the Holy Spirit in biblical times to be identified with the views of the majority ! |
| 16 | What Athens wanted from Egypt is not stated by the sources , which are very bad ; but Egypt was a supplier of corn to other states , from biblical times to the Roman Empire . |
| 17 | An introduction to a wide-ranging survey of Western Art from Roman times to the present . |
| 18 | The County Museum , in a fine town house with a pleasant garden , has permanent display galleries which tell the story of Oxfordshire — its people , buildings and landscapes — from early times to the present day , and a changing programme of temporary exhibitions . |
| 19 | In 1859 , when the Origin of Species had come out , the evidence from fossils was suggestive but very incomplete : geologists had sought to characterize strata by their fossils rather than to follow family trees through from early times to the present . |
| 20 | Bell 's application of the methodology of sociolinguistics in real time to an extensive body of written and broadcast data suggests an interesting and practicable way of studying the gradual diffusion of a linguistic change from an identifiable point of influence . |
| 21 | Sometimes it helps if the person who is holding the horse , pats the horse on the neck in exact time to the farrier hammering on its foot — especially if it is the actual hammering that worries the horse the most . |
| 22 | Covering artists from Byzantine times to the nineteenth century , it should allow scholars to establish underdrawing styles for individual painters . |
| 23 | formerly an area on the north bank of the Thames between Waterloo and Westminster bridges , belonging from ancient times to the borough of Lambeth ; according to legend it was bequeathed to the borough by a pedlar on condition that his portrait , and that of his dog , should be preserved for ever in one of the parish church 's stained glass windows . |
| 24 | Chronicles the grim spectrum of religious persecution from ancient times to the present . |
| 25 | This is in clear contrast to the divergence model in Indo-European studies , and as a result of this contrast , the shape that emerges from historical language description ( from ancient times to the present day ) is not so much a pyramidal shape ( with gradual convergence at the top ) as a funnel shape ( the kind that is used for pouring liquids ) , as in figure 3.1 . |
| 26 | Aspects of the history of string , wind and percussion instruments from ancient times to the present day , with particular regard to instruments of Western art music . |
| 27 | Marxism came in good time to the Socialist Workers ' party after study , after reading the books from Europe , from international contacts , from the travels of our comrades , from the contact with the Communist International . |
| 28 | To join the Party Club , send off your child 's name and birthday date in good time to : Party Club from Stockingfillas , Tennant House , London Rd , Macclesfield , Cheshire SK11 0LW , and you 'll receive the two books and an order form six weeks before the big day . |
| 29 | Of course , the various families of homoclinic orbits to the origin can not cross ( at any point in parameter space the two trajectories which tend in backward time to the origin are unique and can be part of at most one homoclinic orbit ) and the dotted lines representing homoclinic orbits to the points also can not cross ( for similar reasons ) . |
| 30 | If one extrapolates the results of the sum over histories from imaginary time to real time , one finds that the beginning of the universe in real time can be very different from its end . |