Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elf had arranged that Jackie take me around Monaco and the experience — of living through what a grand prix driver lives through every time he races — remains engraved on my mind . |
| 2 | Each spurt in investment has for a time been halfway successful in boosting harvests and production , but policy to date has failed to grasp the nettles of productivity , variety , distribution and responsible land use . |
| 3 | Nationalism was , is and will be : it is , as Tom Nairn put it , the Janus-face looking at once forward to liberation and progress and backward to reactionary and often mythical notions of the past ; it is a force which should never be identified with the nation-state , a concept which nationalism has for a time inhabited , as a hermit crab inhabits a shell , but is evidently beginning to evacuate as the sovereign nation-state shows clear sign of obsolescence . |
| 4 | The problem of bridging the gap between early experience and later personality has for the time being been shelved , and questions are being asked instead about what is indeed the logically prior problem : whether and in what way infants of various ages are affected by specified environmental happenings . |
| 5 | Indeed , some verbs seem to have no lexical content beyond one which is aimed at providing some kind of reservation about applicability of the adjectival property , examples being become and turn which place a temporal restriction on the adjective 's applicability ; the subordinate property only holds after the time indicated by the tense of the verb . |
| 6 | Sir Matt writes of the time he became United 's manager , in 1945 : |
| 7 | The difference lies in the time the animal spends resting between meals ( Bayne and Scullard , 1978 ) . |
| 8 | The main limitation of this pragmatic approach lies in the time and collection dependency of the resulting tool . |
| 9 | That is , it lives from the time it 's conceived and created , for some fifty or sixty years , it varies , and then the work dies . |
| 10 | Pretreatment of human colon adenocarcinoma derived HT-29 cells with DMJ resulted in an expression of the 105 kD β 1 precursor chain and of smaller forms of the α 1 , α 3 , α 6 , and α v integrin subunits in a time and dose dependent manner . |
| 11 | All of this adds to the time involved in the process and certainly adds to the fees . |
| 12 | Professor von Hayek , a luminary much admired by the Prime Minister , writes to The Times suggesting that if attacks are made against the forces in the Falklands , Britain should retaliate on the Argentine mainland . |
| 13 | If the load conditions change , however , the timer period no longer corresponds to the time taken to reach the overshoot position and the resultant response is poor . |
| 14 | This is a date and time serial number and corresponds to the time given by your computer 's system clock at the point you pressed the Enter key . |
| 15 | Secondly , I know that this committee has over a time been concerned about the resource needs |
| 16 | It will also cut training needs at a time when people no longer want to serve long apprenticeships . |
| 17 | In marketing terms it 's a tremendous card to play erm our marketing line in the States was always ‘ we speak your language , a common heritage , a common culture erm almost a common language ’ and erm the special relationship really exits at a time like this to a very marked degree , and we shall be playing that for all it 's worth , certainly . |
| 18 | Since his recent appointment Mr Clayton has at no time had access to any medical evidence relating to the nine children . |
| 19 | We shall even consider him in whatever new role he has at the time . |
| 20 | The objective is to ensure that all employees accept their individual responsibilities within the context of the law as it stands at the time . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps a trained nurse is n't quite what one wants at a time like this , ’ Sophia agreed . |
| 22 | Her claims to be heard are based on her spiritual topic matter and the historical accident that she writes at a time when she believes more has been revealed about the divine and therefore she possesses ‘ more information ’ than previously . |
| 23 | The insider must also know that the information he holds at the time of the trades in question is unpublished price sensitive information . |
| 24 | The crew were involved in low level tactical training exercises at the time of the accident . |
| 25 | Fatigue contributes to the fall-off in performance that occurs as the time spent awake ( or on duty ) increases . |
| 26 | If it occurs after the time of supply then he will have a defence , although the retailer will be liable for breach of the implied terms under ss13-14 of SGA 1979 and analagous provisions in contracts of supply . |
| 27 | Whatever the meaning for those twelve disciples on that short mission ( and the Spirit may well have come upon them temporarily as he did upon the Old Testament of God to equip them for a special purpose ) , it is hard to mistake the shadow this event casts towards the time of the Church , when men sent out by Jesus ( ‘ sent one' is the root meaning of the word ‘ apostle ’ ) would be equipped by the Spirit given them by Jesus , for carrying out Jesus ' own mission in the world . |
| 28 | The treatment of slaves … anything and everything that happens from the time of enslavement in Africa through the Middle Passage and the final sales and treatment in bondage . ’ |
| 29 | If goods have not been delivered within 30 days following expiry of an agreed time limit or if there is not an agreed time limit within 60 says from the time the carrier took over the goods , this shall be taken as evidence of the loss of the goods . |
| 30 | After distinguished service in World War II , first as an ambulance driver , then in R.A.F. Intelligence , Cooper embarked on a career as one of the art world 's most persistent gadflies , finding his pulpit in the form of unsigned book reviews in the Times Literary Supplement . |