Example sentences of "[prep] the time in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Landlord Bill Long , who has since moved to another pub , gave evidence in support of the defendant , verifying that he had been within his sight for the time in question , except for a brief spell when he was collecting glasses . |
| 2 | I have proposed that , on the reasonable assumption that resources remained more or less constant for the time in question , the price exacted for ( phyletically ) growing larger was to become rarer , thereby increasing the probability of extinction ( Hallam , 1975 ) . |
| 3 | Combe Bank could be regarded as an attempt to reduce the four-corner-towered form of , for example , Lord Burlington 's Tottenham Park to the scale of a villa ; at Whitton Place he appears to have been one of the first Palladian architects to employ the three-sided bay-window motif ; and his stable block at Althorp , Northamptonshire ( 1732–3 ) , with its portico derived from St Paul Covent Garden is exceptional for the time in its exploitation of the bold simplicity of the Tuscan order . |
| 4 | In breaking it up , he segregates those disturbing causes , whose wanderings happen to be inconvenient , for the time in a pound called Ceteris Paribus . |
| 5 | During the time in the playground the teachers and head need to be listening to parents and children , spreading irresistible enthusiasm and showing interest in peoples as individuals . |
| 6 | Many women feel fitter and healthier during the time in which a baby is carried than at any other time and a number of tendencies towards minor illness vanish during the period . |
| 7 | The speed at which they have moved is commendable , especially as the time in which an appeal can be made is ticking away . |
| 8 | Did I ever tell you about the time in the Persian Empire when- ’ |
| 9 | In this section are described ways of getting back into practice and of improving flying skills by making better use of the time in the air . |
| 10 | To beguile some of the time in Malvern , they went to the cinema . |
| 11 | I 'm told that the television is on most of the time in my house — the police can detect it — and I want to say something to Liam , if he 's watching . ’ |
| 12 | In fact ( the myth persists ) , even if the slim person does not especially like these foods , he or she sticks with them for a large part of the time in order to maintain a trim figure . |
| 13 | The contra leaders , sitting for much of the time in Miami in their well-cut lightweight suits and their gold watches , had purposes in view , some of them not especially noble ; the rebels in the field were mostly tired , variously motivated , and confused . |
| 14 | In fact MI5 was wasting its time because Khrushchev and Bulganin were well aware of this and spent much of the time in their suite holding nonsensical conversations that appeared to include tantalising references to important matters but were in reality pure rubbish . |
| 15 | Suppose , for example , you have a so-called extraverted personality , this means that for most of the time in most situations you will tend to think , feel and behave in outward going ways . |
| 16 | He was on the run for forty-three days , sheltering for part of the time in a cornfield , being fed occasionally by sympathetic French farmers , but was hunted down and sent to captivity in Belgium . |
| 17 | ( Such a longing , incidentally , tends to forget certain unpleasant features of the time in question : for black Americans a reassertion of eighteenth-century values would mean a return to slavery . ) |
| 18 | A clinical smell like solvent that reminded her instantly of the time in hospital when she gave birth to Sousan . |
| 19 | As the aircraft were left out ‘ dispersed ’ most of the time in English or in tropical rain these compartments soon became little damp boxes , often with a puddle at the bottom . |
| 20 | With all his theological subtlety and insight into human behaviour he accepted the common views of the time in attributing to the saints in Heaven a concern for their worldly rights which , if they had not been part of an eternal order of the universe , would have disgraced a schoolboy . |
| 21 | His parents will be able to spend much of the time in the ward with him . |
| 22 | Dahl for much of the time in Dresden , in the same house as the German Romantic painter Caspar David Griedrich , and both were dazzled and bewitched by the golden luminosity of Italy . |
| 23 | During infancy children tend to be kept most of the time in the small , dark interior of their hut , where they are rarely allowed to crawl on the floor , rarely spoken to or played with ( though always kept near the mother ) , and where few objects for play are available . |
| 24 | Oh there 's a char , there 's a lovely char here , these lovely chars er actually spend most of the time in big cold lakes and they 're a , they 're a population in they normally respond in December from about December the second to the fifteenth and they 've probably been isolated since fourteen thousand years ago , with that every population has gone slightly different to , to the next one . |
| 25 | I think if you ha , if you look at Burns in the context of the time in which he lived , he was not an exceptional drinker or an exceptional womanizer , we 're a lot like him |
| 26 | A long , low , back variant appears 78 per cent of the time in Andersonstown as opposed to 68 per cent of the time in Braniel . |
| 27 | A long , low , back variant appears 78 per cent of the time in Andersonstown as opposed to 68 per cent of the time in Braniel . |
| 28 | If your students want to study spoken English , you will spend part of the time in the classroom working on examples of the spoken language . |
| 29 | that 's something else which you might find , a lot of the time in er literature about interaction with children , you might find that er where parents are asking their children to do something , like if they 're playing a game , you might find some You 'll find that mothers and fathers talk differently to sons and daughters er so you start off with a direct ac action like Put that one there , if they 're playing lego or something , straight prom Put that on there down to er Would n't it be a good idea to put that on there down to Could you put that on there or Let's put it on there . |
| 30 | At first he stayed up in his room most of the time in the evenings , reading and playing his harp . |