Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed foreign — not foreign to the place but a stranger to the times she lived in . |
| 2 | The FBL 's compulsory insurance requirement is intended to reassure shippers and consignees that they will be adequately and reliably compensated in the event of delay or accidental loss , from the time the goods were ‘ taken in charge ’ by the freight forwarder to the time of their delivery to the named consignee . |
| 3 | Most men take less than six minutes from the time of entry to the time they ejaculate . |
| 4 | Turnaround will be measured from the time a request is entered at the terminal to the time printing is logged as being completed by RSCS or the batch monitor . |
| 5 | He was proving himself to be not only an accurate witness to the times , but a respected one , too . |
| 6 | Conran suspects that the current vogue for de-mergers will eventually turn full circle and there will be a return to the times when it was thought that , |
| 7 | This , we hoped , would permit us to see the various stages of the project in operation from the time when a school began to plan its proposal to the time when the materials purchased with project funds were already in use . |
| 8 | The ‘ blood of the covenant ’ is a reference to the time of Moses . |
| 9 | It can determine that the trustee should be paid a percentage of the value of the assets realised and/or distributed , or by reference to the time spent by the trustee and his staff , and must have regard to the complexity or otherwise of the matter , any exceptional responsibility falling on the trustee , the trustee 's effectiveness and the value and nature of the assets dealt with by the trustee . |
| 10 | The police car can be said to be represented as a " welcome sight " , and there is therefore a reference to the time before its appearance which is not present in the sentence with the subordinate clause . |
| 11 | She said : ‘ We are trying to re-establish the Lord Mayoralty as it was before the city had its pantomime period , ’ a reference to the time the Militant-dominated council abolished the position of Lord Mayor and replaced it with a Labour chairman . |
| 12 | The general point here and I want to make is that er , these are n't officers ' promises these are the members ' promises and er , erm , we 've got to be careful that er when they 're all drawn together that we are n't making a hostage fortune , erm and so that I think it is very important members take aboard er what is suggested and test them themselves to see that they are realistic , I would also say that er as these promises are being considered by the various committees and I note a considerable variation in standards which will need to be addressed when the promises er , have come back to the Policy Committee , these are particularly in reference to the time required to respond to er , erm complaints etc , it 's no use having the Highways Committee wanting two weeks and incidentally on promise number two erm I think that er any up , somebody else 's point er straight forward wants to be deleted , erm the highways require two weeks to respond er , erm hearts and libraries want a , you know half a day , er and we 've got to get these er erm more or less synchronized I think , and whilst I 'm thinking Chairman on the last page er of the er favourite for , for first for agent authorities , but it does n't give any indication about the contact point and as most of our population live in the agent authorities that the er it needs to be expanded to give the contacts er points for the members of the public . |
| 13 | Although taxation was a common reason for convening representative members , it was by no means the only reason for doing so ; nor was it , in proportion to the time spent on it , the principal or most demanding business of parliament . |
| 14 | There are all sorts of comparatively small changes you can make which will transform your kitchen 's looks out of all proportion to the time and expense . |
| 15 | Yet some of the richness and wit of the Jacobean dialogue is threatened by its being spoken in thick Italian/New York accents — mastered better by some actors than others — and snatches of more modern speech , while essential for credibility , draw attention to the time warp . |
| 16 | COGSA , for example , applies from the time the goods are loaded on board the vessel to the time they are discharged ; i.e. , ’ tackle to tackle . ’ |
| 17 | Very good indeed : The Language of Truth , Art of the Calm , and the horrendously titled Ode to the Time our Memories forgot . |
| 18 | He looks forward with impatience to the time when he will be sent to Siberia ; his martyrdom ends with the beginning of his punishment " . |
| 19 | Detectives were granted the extension to the time allowed to question her German-born husband . |
| 20 | Police were twice granted an extension to the time allowed for questioning . |
| 21 | The explanation for this can not be sought in the tenses of the verbs that the testator has used , for they are all historic with respect to the time the will was made and ought on that basis to refer to no time later than that . |
| 22 | Section 5(9) states that Customs may make regulations with respect to the time of supply of services for a consideration the whole or part of which is determined or payable periodically ( known as ‘ continuous supplies of services ’ ) . |
| 23 | Note that the relative signs of the spatial components with respect to the time component are set negative , so that in the limit of zero mass eqn ( 4.10 ) reduces to the Minkowski metric equation of SR : . |
| 24 | Children are excited by it ; it helps reinforce the children 's understanding of and commitment to the time shift , and in this case introduces the idea of a journal as part of the fiction , thereby leading into writing-in-role activities . ) |
| 25 | And there is surely a limit to the time which this historic opportunity can endure . |
| 26 | This three year research project seeks to remedy this shortcoming by examing what solicitors do , from the moment a defendant first seeks legal advice to the time of disposition . |
| 27 | She revealed her side of the story to The Times . |
| 28 | On 18th August , 1859 , Ruskin sent a letter from Switzerland to E. S. Dallas , a leader writer to The Times . |
| 29 | In addition to the time lag while the act was being understood , it can take up to four years for an insolvency practitioner to lodge a report and then for a disqualification order to be made . |
| 30 | An alternative , favoured by those of a religious persuasion , was that A'Tuin was crawling from the Birthplace to the Time of Mating , as were all the stars in the sky which were , obviously , also carried by giant turtles . |