Example sentences of "[adv] the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the time of molecular revelation of rare diseases would be the proper time to introduce general health insurance to the United States ? |
| 2 | Perhaps the time of his Occultation — whatever that might be — was almost upon them . |
| 3 | So the time for meals should be determined by when people get up , when they go to bed and other things that they want to do during the day . ’ |
| 4 | Well , it 's only the time of the month . ’ |
| 5 | Like facsimile messages ( fax ) , it has the advantage of being less expensive than the telephone , as an entire message can be composed before transmission , with only the time of transmission attracting an external cost . |
| 6 | Bottom Deck games , including tennis and quoits , helped to while away the time during the voyage . |
| 7 | Bored GIs waiting for the war with Iraq to begin whiled away the time with fellow female soldiers . |
| 8 | Bored GIs waiting for the war with Iraq to begin whiled away the time with fellow female soldiers . |
| 9 | You see , he does n't just speak to us for small talk , he does n't just speak to while away the time with , with conversation . |
| 10 | He whiled away the time by contemplating the stained glass lancet windows behind the preacher and the holy table . |
| 11 | Early March was scarcely the time of year for pleasure-sailing , but the young women insisted on going along ; and wrapping up warmly , they went down to the harbour and found fishermen to row them out in one of their high-prowed cobles . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , it 's just the time of the month . ’ |
| 13 | He had been taken to the fourth floor at exactly the time of his appointment . |
| 14 | This is usually the time of year she asks for my subscription to the Church of England Orphans and I wonder if she has forgotten me . |
| 15 | When contracts were exchanged , the conditions of sale would stipulate the time for the delivery of an abstract and thereafter the time for the raising of requisitions upon it . |
| 16 | ‘ Hardly the time for taking on avoidable hazards . ’ |
| 17 | But then , with a shrug , he went back inside : this was hardly the time for sneering at pillars . |
| 18 | ‘ Hardly the time for compliments , but thanks all the same . ’ |
| 19 | Quite apart from that , and even if the lights are fused properly , it will take double the time on the night itself . |
| 20 | Both these distinctions imply that registration in storage continues long past the time of reception of information . |
| 21 | This is also the time for everyone to enjoy an extra special dinner . |
| 22 | The whole story is complicated by the fact that this was also the time of break-up of the supercontinent Pangaea . |
| 23 | One advantage of wind power is that it would tend to generate best when weather is bad which is also the time of peak need for electricity in many countries . |
| 24 | That point in time was also the time of the appropriation . |
| 25 | I think that 's what Priest , I mean I do n't know , Priest probably has a whole history of how he got is Esquire style , but Vincent went over there and had something to do with it , and I really think that taking the old style stuff and giving it a new spin helped , and the difference between what we 're doing and what the California crowd was doing — and this was also the time of punk rock — was that we were using traditional typefaces and they were |
| 26 | ‘ Not only do we measure the movement by the time , but also the time by the movement , because they define each other . |
| 27 | Snizort thought that this was probably the time of day that the Beastline enjoyed best ; supping at the long oak table , making plans to regain Tara , drinking spiced wine or mead . |
| 28 | The conference in 1968 on the transmission of schizophrenia , reported by Rosenthal and Kety , brought together researchers from each camp , and is probably the time at which all sides came to agree that both genetic and environmental factors must be implicated in some way . |
| 29 | Further loss was expected during October — traditionally the time of the deepest holes . |
| 30 | However , in mid-1940 , just about the time of Dunkirk — but quite unconnected with it expansion of the milk supply to children took on a new urgency as the Ministry of Food belatedly worked out a national food policy for an island race threatened by the submarine . |