Example sentences of "[prep] the time [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And then , after the war , the newly formed High Council set themselves up as the Time Lords . ’ |
| 2 | Here dating becomes more and more problematical as the time spans become longer and longer . |
| 3 | This rather skeletal account of the phenomenon of hysteresis , suggesting a connection between the time paths of the actual and the equilibrium unemployment rates , needs to be substantially fleshed out . |
| 4 | The difference between the time values for calls and puts may be taken as an indicator of market sentiment about the future progress of the share price . |
| 5 | Add to this the fact that ‘ 65 per cent of workers in the UK are now part of a working couple ’ , according to , and the tensions between the time demands of home and work can lead to even greater stress problems . |
| 6 | Alex Stein has already been in touch with you , however I would formally confirm that we would be interested in such a publicity campaign for Council Tax at about the time bills are being issued in April . |
| 7 | Using this marker , Howard Ochman and Allan Wilson of the University of California , Berkeley , concluded that the two species diverged about 130 million years ago , ‘ intriguingly ’ ( they wrote ) about the time mammals originated . |
| 8 | They have , however , put on their habits for various demos , vogued onstage at an Edinburgh Larks In The Park festival , dominated the dancefloor at Sign Of The Times parties , made Derek Jarman a saint , performed weddings , house blessings and baptisms , and now granted THE FACE a nihil obstat . |
| 9 | The nature of the times sheds important light on this . |
| 10 | Although all things are not possible all of the time students possess a considerable measure of initiative in programme design . |
| 11 | The myths of Gallifrey talk about nameless horrors infesting our universe which were only defeated through the might of the Time Lords . |
| 12 | It was the mark of the Time Lords of Gallifrey . |
| 13 | ‘ Rassilon had become the first President of the Time Lords of Gallifrey . |
| 14 | I 'm more concerned about erm future possibilities , not least the possibility that the , if we fight the next European election under first past the post system then of course there will need to be a further set of boundary changes in the very near future arising from the parliamentary boundary commission proposals and I hope that again that the minister will take the change in in his remarks a little later , to assure the house that this was , because of the time constraints and there are reasons for that that I 'll come to , but because of the time constraints that this was in fact just a one off proposal because its sad that party political considerations that the minister has eluded to , the difficulties that Conservative party had over the Maastricht bill , caused our boundary procedures to be tampered with at all in the U K. At the same time as we 're seeing er a welcome expansion of democratic forms in the rest of the world in erm Eastern and central er Europe , in South Africa for instance we see the erosion of these forms in the United Kingdom . |
| 15 | I 'm more concerned about erm future possibilities , not least the possibility that the , if we fight the next European election under first past the post system then of course there will need to be a further set of boundary changes in the very near future arising from the parliamentary boundary commission proposals and I hope that again that the minister will take the change in in his remarks a little later , to assure the house that this was , because of the time constraints and there are reasons for that that I 'll come to , but because of the time constraints that this was in fact just a one off proposal because its sad that party political considerations that the minister has eluded to , the difficulties that Conservative party had over the Maastricht bill , caused our boundary procedures to be tampered with at all in the U K. At the same time as we 're seeing er a welcome expansion of democratic forms in the rest of the world in erm Eastern and central er Europe , in South Africa for instance we see the erosion of these forms in the United Kingdom . |
| 16 | For 80 to 90 percent of the time things go well . |
| 17 | In interview , the head of science offered these illuminating insights into the way the library project had stimulated book awareness and book selection among staff in his department : A lot of the time teachers did n't know what was available and said " The science shelf is over there " , but they had n't actually looked at the titles of the books before … they were quite pleasantly surprised . |
| 18 | In Neugebauer 's view , it originated on purely practical grounds by continual observation and averaging of the time intervals between successive arrivals of the Nile flood at Heliopolis , the rising of the Nile being the main event in Egyptian life . |
| 19 | There are many laboratory techniques for measuring time in speech , and measurement of the time intervals between stressed syllables in connected English speech has not shown the expected regularity ; moreover , using the same measuring techniques on different languages , it has not been possible to show a real difference between ‘ stress-timed ’ and ‘ syllable-timed ’ languages . |
| 20 | Thus throughout the following the average of any quantity Q signifies where s is large compared with any of the time scales involved in the variations of Q. |
| 21 | Because of the time differences across the globe , Australians are among the first people on Earth to herald the New Year . |
| 22 | Much of the time parents are quite unconscious of their ‘ reinforcing ’ behaviour . |
| 23 | These are far-ranging debates on the state of the economy , though for some third of the time members have actually talked about taxation . |
| 24 | Each segment then has a basic cost rate for a standard spot , in each of the time lengths allowed . |
| 25 | Have you noticed that by and large , not all the time of course but I should say that eighty percent of the time birds face that way ? |
| 26 | The recommendations from NICMA are quite simple , as Irene explained : ‘ Reward good behaviour — most of the time children are good . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ This is n't very helpful because nobody chooses depression and most of the time sufferers are not in a position to help themselves , ’ he added . |
| 28 | Secondly , there should be a real assault upon the incompetence and inefficiencies of our courts , which would result in a reduction of the time men and women are held on remand and reduce pressure in that way . |
| 29 | Much of the time pupils will work on sources that have been carefully selected by the teacher . |
| 30 | LITERALLY BEHIND THE TIMES Books are still subject to resale price maintenance , sale or return is the norm , and only a third of all retailers have embraced electronic point of sale techniques . |