Example sentences of "[noun sg] of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They drive you mad , ’ I said , thinking of the time I was about to murder my husband with the pressure-cooker , ‘ did he do exercises in bed ? ’ |
| 2 | It was the picture of public squalor which accompanied private affluence that made the most immediate impact on the thinking of the time . |
| 3 | Secondly , a comparison indicates the centrality of housing to the political thinking of the time , and the extent to which some novelists , notably Dickens and Disraeli , became actively involved in practical measures . |
| 4 | I 'm just , you know thinking of the time . |
| 5 | Partly he 'd be in because he was really into leather himself and partly he was there because his girlfriend of the time , Nora — who now lives with Johnny Rotten — was in the shop just about every day . |
| 6 | They are also extremely vocal , calling and bellowing a good deal of the time . |
| 7 | Sceptics might feel that they betrayed a lack of informed thought on the issue of objectives ; and certainly a good deal of the time of the economic planners , the Treasury , the Ministry and the industry over the following decades was to be devoted to the search for more meaningful objectives and standards of performance to supplement these minimal statutory requirements . |
| 8 | Granted , he does have five- bedroom house in Bayswater ; he is married to one of the most powerful women in publishing ; but his children go to state schools , a good deal of the time he wears clothes from Marks & Spencer and he does not drive a car . |
| 9 | He was difficult sometimes — maddening sometimes — but he had , I always thought , a curious innocence of character so that you could n't be angry with him for long — and I found him always stimulating to be with — talkative , bursting with ideas and comments — and for a great deal of the time — just plain good fun to be with . |
| 10 | Indeed he seemed to have to keep rushing off to have a word with this person and that ; Helen found herself on her own a good deal of the time , glimpsing him across the room in spirited conversation . |
| 11 | Robert Burrows , now promoted to the rank of major , was ill the Red Shield , acting as a welfare officer with the troops , and away from home a good deal of the time . |
| 12 | A good deal of the time he or she can get it the first time . |
| 13 | ‘ Was the bulk of the time devoted to the important or the trivial agenda items ? ’ |
| 14 | The adequacy of the time provided for discussion at Validation Events will be monitored closely during the validation of Phase 2 Pilots and the experience gained over both pilots will contribute to the framework established for the post Pilot stage . |
| 15 | Similarly , he performed at various locations in the States , reading his poetry to the accompaniment of Maury Kay , a well known jazz musician of the time . |
| 16 | Like the others , K 19a ( rediscovered not long ago ) was much influenced by the most successful London musician of the time , J C Bach — son of J S Bach . |
| 17 | ‘ Rassilon had become the first President of the Time Lords of Gallifrey . |
| 18 | Negative attitudes to ageing may , in part , be the result of the time lag between social change and a change in people 's attitudes . |
| 19 | The typical Orbison single contained more drama and incident than the average 90-minute movie of the time , and ‘ Running Scared ’ was one of his finest . |
| 20 | The best known mayor of the time , Shaikh Muhammad Ali Ja'bari ( who had led the West Bank notables to accept Hashemite rule in 1948 ) , offered to act as an intermediary between the Israelis and Amman — a role which , as Amman was quick to perceive , greatly enhanced Ja'bari 's standing as ‘ the leader ’ of the West Bank population . |
| 21 | An indication of the time spent on work which is not directly productive , such as working in the yard or stores , driving or travelling . |
| 22 | The image will also include some indication of the time , place and emotional tone associated with the experience . |
| 23 | and when I see the buses now running around , they seem to run everywhere I do n't on earth what kind of running board they 've got because in my day it was so well regulated that erm you just recorded certain intermediate stages and I quote Witton and Rushmere you get , used to get Witton Terminus , Norwich Road Bridge , Sherrington Road , Barret Corner , Electric House and you gave an indication of the time that those buses should be passing those times . |
| 24 | The Jewish High Priest of the time acceded to this and urged compliance from the populace . |
| 25 | The kanun , included in a late seventeenth-century anthology ( 1095/1684 ) , purports to reflect the practice of the time of Suleyman , but that the kanun in the form published by Uzuncarsili dates from Suleyman 's time must be rejected on the grounds both that many of the kadiliks mentioned did not attain mevleviyet status until the late sixteenth or seventeenth centuries and that two of them Kandiye ( Candia ) and Kamanice ( Kamenets-Podolskiy ) — did not come into Ottoman hands until 1080/ 1669 and 1083/1672 respectively . |
| 26 | The truth , both for Owen and Marx , is likely to be this : that in the pervasive optimism of the time , it was natural for the revolutionary to suppose that the change to usher in the new order was at hand , whether prompted by an Owenite vision of human perfectibility or by the culminatory movement of the perfecting Marxist dialectical materialism . |
| 27 | Another character who received his name through an advert of the time was " Soapy " Watson . |
| 28 | It is for only about two days either side of the time of ovulation that fertilization and conception can take place . |
| 29 | The Bulgarian Communist Party renamed itself the Bulgarian Socialist Party on April 3 , calling the decision a clean break with " the dictatorship of the time before Nov. 10 , 1989 , which was a dictatorship not only over the people , but over the party as well " . |
| 30 | Feeble recovery in the 1590s was cut short by the famines of 1601–03 and the prolonged disruption of the Time of Troubles . |