Example sentences of "[adv] the time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the time of molecular revelation of rare diseases would be the proper time to introduce general health insurance to the United States ? |
| 2 | Perhaps the time of his Occultation — whatever that might be — was almost upon them . |
| 3 | Well , it 's only the time of the month . ’ |
| 4 | Like facsimile messages ( fax ) , it has the advantage of being less expensive than the telephone , as an entire message can be composed before transmission , with only the time of transmission attracting an external cost . |
| 5 | Early March was scarcely the time of year for pleasure-sailing , but the young women insisted on going along ; and wrapping up warmly , they went down to the harbour and found fishermen to row them out in one of their high-prowed cobles . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , it 's just the time of the month . ’ |
| 7 | He had been taken to the fourth floor at exactly the time of his appointment . |
| 8 | Surely not the time of the month ? |
| 9 | This is usually the time of year she asks for my subscription to the Church of England Orphans and I wonder if she has forgotten me . |
| 10 | Both these distinctions imply that registration in storage continues long past the time of reception of information . |
| 11 | ‘ Certain highly technical factors , intelligible only to the expert and with which I will not take up the time of this inquest , have led me to conclude that Subject A had been dead for more than nine years and less than twelve . |
| 12 | Yet schools are prepared to tie up the time of senior staff , in effect the resource equivalent of at least a full-time head of department post , with the vaguest responsibilities for taking difficult pupils away from classrooms . |
| 13 | ‘ In any case , I have looked up the time of your flight . |
| 14 | I have details here of scores of cases , but as I can not take up the time of the House in referring to all of them , I will pick one or two examples . |
| 15 | I apologise for taking up the time of the House . |
| 16 | If the Home Secretary does not want the Bill to do serious damage to internal discipline in prisons , resulting in matters that should be dealt with by internal disciplinary procedures going to court and taking up the time of the criminal justice system — making it far more difficult for prison governors to run their prisons — he had better look again at that clause and amend it . |
| 17 | The whole story is complicated by the fact that this was also the time of break-up of the supercontinent Pangaea . |
| 18 | One advantage of wind power is that it would tend to generate best when weather is bad which is also the time of peak need for electricity in many countries . |
| 19 | That point in time was also the time of the appropriation . |
| 20 | I think that 's what Priest , I mean I do n't know , Priest probably has a whole history of how he got is Esquire style , but Vincent went over there and had something to do with it , and I really think that taking the old style stuff and giving it a new spin helped , and the difference between what we 're doing and what the California crowd was doing — and this was also the time of punk rock — was that we were using traditional typefaces and they were |
| 21 | Snizort thought that this was probably the time of day that the Beastline enjoyed best ; supping at the long oak table , making plans to regain Tara , drinking spiced wine or mead . |
| 22 | Further loss was expected during October — traditionally the time of the deepest holes . |
| 23 | The next day he went back to the factory and found out the time of the funeral . |
| 24 | I had no interest in charitable works , or in clubs devoted to flower-arranging , debating futile motions or even poetry-reading , seeing such activities as being designed to fill out the time of future ladies of leisure . |
| 25 | However , in mid-1940 , just about the time of Dunkirk — but quite unconnected with it expansion of the milk supply to children took on a new urgency as the Ministry of Food belatedly worked out a national food policy for an island race threatened by the submarine . |
| 26 | I 'VE always been fascinated by prehistory , particularly the time of man 's first settlement in the northern Dales . |
| 27 | Even the time of day is relevant . |
| 28 | Frequently they give her the exact day they decided life was not worth living , and sometimes even the time of day the decision was made . |
| 29 | Something that effects even the time of the year all sorts of things . |
| 30 | Maybe because the teddy boy fashion was just beginning to edge back in ; it was around the time of Roxy Music 's Spaceman Ted look . |