Example sentences of "[prep] the time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the litigant in person has not actually suffered pecuniary loss in the preparation of the case ( which this sum would compensate ) the court will only allow up to £7.50 per hour for the time reasonably spent in preparation . |
| 2 | The student may want to find out more about the kind of parts he/she may play in the future , or indeed may have played during the time already spent at drama school . |
| 3 | Some heads of department believed that the self-appraisal report was the product of departmental discussion , but that it was discussion which had taken place over the last few years rather than during the time specifically set aside for the self-appraisal . |
| 4 | I think of that week as the time before everything went mad . |
| 5 | Somewhere in the period between the time that early man first made for himself a ‘ god ’ , and the time when evidence of ‘ god ’ worship was left for later generations to find , the use of ‘ gods ’ for purposes which were largely intended to create unfair privileges , and were therefore a source of evil , gradually crept in and became a widespread part of the social scene . |
| 6 | She sa she said that in someone said about the time today but I 've forgotten . |
| 7 | The detective inspector went on , in tones totally devoid of emphasis , ‘ Unfortunately Dr Iverson went out after the dinner-party to pay a late visit to a man with pneumonia about whom he was worried an so can not tell us anything about the time immediately after the guests had left . |
| 8 | It was tough , but we got through the time somehow . |
| 9 | You you mentioned that er after the time presumably when the the winter began to come on , erm became more of a an obligation how did you keep motivated to turn up ? |
| 10 | It is reported on the front page of The Times today that the common agricultural policy — that squalid policy which is costing British families an average of £18.50 a week each — will destroy the world free trade talks , which have been going on for four or five years , and involve just about every country in the world . |
| 11 | Thomson recreates the Australian Fifties with more than a cursory skill and catches the censorious , more petit bourgeois than the English tone of the times well enough to convince . |
| 12 | The personal column of The Times once carried the following advertisement , ‘ Statue required , size approximately four-feet-seven-inches to five feet , reproduction of Michelangelo 's David , without fig leaf . ’ |
| 13 | But his concentration was poor these days : he could hardly keep his mind on anything for more than a moment … and even when he heard what the Padre said it made no sense … " the Editor of The Times as wise as God Himself ! " |
| 14 | However , he would be right most of the time even if the central dogma is wrong , and protein sequences could be translated into DNA sequences , because most ‘ acquired characters ’ would not involve the synthesis of new kinds of proteins . |
| 15 | One problem of the past year has been the length of time it has taken me to accept that I need to work in the bookshop most of the time even though I know this work has to be done and though I enjoy it ( most of the time ) . |
| 16 | Most believers , it is likely , find it difficult much of the time even to remember what it is they are supposed to believe . |
| 17 | Get good keep of the time here do n't we ? |
| 18 | A hollow-eyed Maltote had taken a strangely exhausted Ranulf off to their own lodgings so the clerk and his wife had dined by themselves in the small hall below and spent the rest of the time here in their bedchamber . |
| 19 | War Diaries , situation reports and other records of the time vividly convey the chaos prevailing throughout the area in those days immediately following the end of the war , as British units encountered this mass of fugitives fleeing , blocking roads or -seeking to surrender , mixed in with the Tito 's partisans and in eastern Carinthia with the advancing Bulgarians of Tolbukhin 's 3rd Ukrainian Front . |
| 20 | This display of aesthetic preference is not absolute , but probabilistic : given a choice between two colours that we know from learning experiments they can distinguish reliably — purple and blue , for example — the bees will choose their favourite , purple , only 70 per cent of the time rather than 100 per cent . |
| 21 | okay , again I mean these are things that talk about confirmation I mean quite honestly I 'm I 'd be quite happy if we had offices where people talk to each other ninety per cent of the time rather than send memos and faxes to each other , and on the whole we are really talking about inside the office with the people who we work with I mean obviously clients as well trying to find something different , we tend tend to find that it 's very very easy sometimes to make a phone call it 's much easier to make a phone call and to talk to that person and give them the personal touch . |
| 22 | She had spent most of the time upstairs trying to look more than OK , and had despised herself all the while for even trying . |
| 23 | PS Nutty 's got a good pair of legs if they 're any use to you , why do n't you slice your way over here to see them ? do n't think he 'd miss them as he 's legless most of the time anyway . |
| 24 | Although a ‘ mature ’ lady , I am a supporter of ‘ save the terrace ’ and can not agree that seats are necessary — fans will stand up most of the time anyway , as we did last Sunday , and seats are more of a hazard when leaning over to see what is happening on the pitch . |
| 25 | British-born speakers tend to use London English most of the time anyway , and there appears to be no requirement to use Creole to respond to Creole utterances , at least from adults : |
| 26 | Much of the general comment has been that quality improvement is just common sense and that we have been doing it all of the time anyway . |
| 27 | Well I speak to myself most of the time anyway . |
| 28 | Apart from offices , we spent most of the time outside . |
| 29 | The powerful states of the time normally were empires , and had been for many centuries , though a few shadowy forerunners of the nation state could be seen by 1500 . |
| 30 | Not being for the direct benefit of a particular class of persons it is in the general enlightened opinion of the time wholly for the benefit of the community , although such benefit be intangible . |