Example sentences of "[prep] [art] time [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 Lysates were precleared with normal rabbit serum and equal amounts incubated at 37°C for the times indicated .
2 Newman in one of the Tracts for the Times drew up a form of service , to be used on the anniversary of Ken 's funeral , whose central message was ‘ He gave to Caesar the things that be Caesar 's and to God the things that be God 's . ’
3 For health reasons she returned to England in 1883 , but her husband 's appointment in 1886 as Italian and Greek correspondent for The Times drew her back to Italy , where she lived in Rome until 1897 .
4 In terms of the law , the Secretary of State is empowered to lay down all aspects of the curriculum , except for the time devoted to each subject and the style in which it shall be taught .
5 The daytime drybulb temperature and vapour pressure deficit of air after regulation at each 7.6m along the chamber were a mean 26°C ) during the time sampled leaves of oats and mustard expanded and 20.6°C ( N= 24 ) and 1.13kPa ( N= 19 ) during wheat growth .
6 To measure oesophageal body motility , variables measured were : ( 1 ) amplitude of contraction ( mm Hg ) , defined as the difference between the baseline pressure and the maximal pressure during the pressure event ; ( 2 ) duration of contraction ( s ) , defined as the time elapsed between the start and the end of the pressure event ; ( 3 ) area under the pressure curve ( mm Hg×s ) , calculated from the sum of all pressure values between the start and the end of the pressure event , multiplied by the sampling interval ; ( 4 ) propagation velocity ( cm/s ) , defined as the speed of a contraction and calculated from the delay time and the distance between the sensors ; ( 5 ) contractility ( mm Hg/s ) , defined as the maximal increment between consecutive pressure values divided by the sampling interval ; ( 6 ) total contractions ( No/24 h ) , defined as pressure curves that are not rejected as artifacts ; ( 7 ) propagated contractions ( No/24 h ) , defined as contractions that are detected by a proximal pressure transducer and followed by a contraction at the distal sensor .
7 I witnessed this phenomenon in tragically symbolic form several months after The Times had published my series .
8 It took all the courage he had to thrust his head and shoulders into the mouth of that entrance , but he closed his eyes and twisted and turned and after a time tumbled out into a great stone chamber , lit with a soft light of its own that dimmed the glitter of his shining key .
9 This process involved the addition of doses of lime and soda ash which after a time led to precipitation of the hardness salts .
10 Only after a time did I force my attention to the other problem — Gharr 's demand for the phetam in return for Mala .
11 A correspondent of The Times thought it was ‘ like the first hearing of a great symphony ’ , and Harold Laski , never one to be outdone in either flattery or hyperbole , wrote to Baldwin that it was ‘ the greatest speech a Prime Minister has ever made ’ .
12 Another aspect of the times had made its debut .
13 Her every move had been followed by jaundiced and world-weary senior politicians ; she had noticed a gleam of lust in the good eye of a privy Councillor , and Peter Riddell of The Times had made a note of her name .
14 Peter Riddell of The Times had written a piece about the Young Conservatives .
15 I 'll bet if the offices of The Times got vandalised , we 'd hear about it , all right . ’
16 As a September 1958 edition of The Times pointed out , Black people ‘ are charged with all kinds of misbehaviour , especially sexual ’ .
17 You and I and the editor of the Times Lit .
18 Signs of the times appeared in a number of different places .
19 William Turner , a botanist of the time remarked that " it restores natural heat , and comforts the vital spirits , and helps the memory , and quickens the senses " .
20 Butler 's role at Crystal Palace was thus largely a supportive one and he seldom gained much publicity , but fans of the time recognised him as a useful contributor to the Palace cause .
21 The overall effect was that the world 's largest and richest city of the time contained the world 's most extensive slums .
22 It had been reported by the colliery official and er the colliery manager of the time thought it was n't even important enough to actually stop men going in to that district to work .
23 There were several technical innovations but the spirit of the time made it likely that the man of the moment would be someone in whom technical boldness and artistic pretension would be sustained by the need to preach .
24 The magazines of the time carried article after article laying down the law of correct and essential dress in which to be seen on ocean crossings and cruises .
25 The new ‘ Queen Anne ’ manner of the time seemed to be a style that would permit greater freedom of planning and lacked the associations with religion evoked by neo-Gothic forms .
26 That nearly a quarter of the time observed these clients had no staff present is surprising and should cause managers to re-examine ward organization and staff morale .
27 On this occasion Mr David Butler will have an even finer collection of predictions to record in his book about the election than he did in 1970 , when almost every distinguished political correspondent of the time echoed Peter Jenkins of the Guardian in asking ‘ Why is Labour winning with such apparent ease ? ’ , just before Ted Heath won by a majority of 43 .
28 A glowing profile by a local journalist of the time said : ‘ There 's nothing of the ruthless businessman in him .
29 Likewise in physics pupils were offered ‘ a starvation course on the precise measurement of physical quantities … [ for , as an influential text of the time began ] ‘ Physics is essentially the science of measurements ’ ’ .
30 Dempsey 's manager Tex Rickard was , as another outstanding black heavyweight of the time recalled , ‘ determined to keep the title white ’ ( Gains , no date , p.54 ) .
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