Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | It supports the principle of increasing energy prices so that consumers pay the full environmental cost of the resources they use , although it acknowledges that increases would have to be phased in over time , preferably in line with international agreements . |
| 32 | A little later , at 7 p.m. , the whole scene was lit up from time to time by electrical discharges , and at one time the cloud above the mountain presented ‘ the appearance of an immense pine tree , with the stem and branches formed with volcanic lightning ’ . |
| 33 | Mr Heseltine has been forced to pull out of a Birmingham conference on global technology today as a contingency to allow the final details to be tied up in time for presentation to the Cabinet . |
| 34 | We have also reached back in time , using memories of grandparents from more than 600 interviews and autobiographies , to try to sense how later life may have changed over two or more centuries . |
| 35 | Secondly , if the company is insolvent when the charge is registered out of time , it is vulnerable to challenge by the administrator or the liquidator . |
| 36 | The court has no jurisdiction to order that a charge registered out of time has priority to a charge which has already been registered . |
| 37 | My hon. Friend , who has been courteous and kind in meeting delegations led by me and by other hon. Members to discuss the problem , has pointed out from time to time that the scheme is the responsibility of the county council . |
| 38 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |
| 39 | Yes , we had stumbled back in time all right , to those days of portion control when catering managers were gods , working miracles of loaves and fishes on ever smaller plates filled with dry greenery and tomatoes cut like starfish . |
| 40 | He was told to imagine that he had travelled back in time to the afternoon of the abduction and was watching the events unfold on a television documentary . |
| 41 | A week in a one-star hotel in Madrid can be set up by Time Off ( 01-235 8070 ) for £227pp , with an optional day tour to Toledo for £26 or to Avila and Segovia for £33 . |
| 42 | UN information sources reported in November that a new Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab region and Europe ( CEDARE ) , proposed by UNDP 's regional Bureau for Arab States and Europe , was expected to be set up in time for the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development . |
| 43 | Sandra had just arrived back in time to hear Mrs Foster 's grim assessment of the situation . |
| 44 | A new Expert book has been brought out in time for Christmas . |
| 45 | Hoops used to be brought out from time to time , to become a craze , then be forgotten again . |
| 46 | Research programmes were being stretched out in time and slowed down , and experiments were having to be cancelled as priorities were reassessed . |
| 47 | Hanging back as he strode off to get it , she protested worriedly , ‘ I really think it might be best not to — and I do n't know quite how it is , but although you all seem to move without speed , not to hurry , I feel as though I 'm being rushed along without time to draw breath ! ’ |
| 48 | Opposition Members have said that the council tax is too complex and difficult to be rushed through in time for 1 April 1993 . |
| 49 | Tony had just returned from Iceland , his epic cycle tour , and I was back from Switzerland , buoyed up by time spent working at the Research Station on the Jungfraujoch . |
| 50 | ‘ We 've simply run out of time in trying to reach an agreement with all concerned ’ said tournament director , Alex Meyer-Wolden , who nevertheless remains hopeful that he will be able to stage a mixed event in 1992 . |
| 51 | Already the Five Nations have almost run out of time . |
| 52 | You may well run out of time — or steam ! |
| 53 | okay well I think we 'll er , we 'll probably have to stop this as we 've run out of time , let me , let me ask the people here one final question , are you in love right now ? , button one for yes and button two for no my goodness , sixty two people are rushing home , the other thirty eight |
| 54 | On which note we have to leave it , I 'm really sorry because we 've run out of time . |
| 55 | I 'm , I 'm run out of time now |
| 56 | Okay , erm on this sheet , I do n't think , well we wo n't go through it now because we 've run out of time . |
| 57 | ‘ I was swept out of time . ’ |
| 58 | The Swifts then came to life with Beattie 's 25-yard free kick just over and Robinson 's forward burst barely cut out on time . |
| 59 | I felt , by doing that , I had effectively stepped back in time and discovered the one thing that should have been thought of before we even harnessed electricity . |
| 60 | I felt that I had stepped back in time to share in the 400 year old ceremony in this charming village . |