Example sentences of "[prep] the time [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the time he has parted with the nobler characteristics of his humanity for the sake of a planetary power of locomotion . |
| 2 | And the model incorporates an adjustable time lag in the volcanic and solar influences to allow for the time it takes the temperature of the atmosphere and oceans to respond to outside influences . |
| 3 | ‘ For pity 's sake just sit there and try not to do anything silly for the time it takes me to fill two bowls with cawl . ’ |
| 4 | So that 's it — we deduct five overs and three runs for the rain interruption , plus another eight overs and four runs to make up for the time it 's taken us to work it out . |
| 5 | The snow is much worse as I finally move out , and the only consolation for the time it has taken is being alone , and arriving late so that the others have already begun on the tent and wood collecting . |
| 6 | But direct observation does give you the colours and you do become more accurate , even though sunlight and shadows move so fast during the time it takes to paint such a scene that the particular arrangement that caught your eye in the first place has long since gone by the time the picture is finished ! |
| 7 | Indeed it is perhaps a pity that he did not take his own advice , after writing in the New Guide ‘ for the author of the present work might with greater ease , and probably with more advantage to himself , have worked up for the amusement of the eye a number of drawings and paintings during the time he has been engaged in this matter of mere utility ’ . |
| 8 | The rate at which it does this is measured as a " time constant " — defined as the time it takes for the output to return 63 per cent of the way to baseline , after a shift in input voltage level . |
| 9 | It is a more complex tension between the time it takes for any educational system to assimilate innovation , and the pressing need of computer manufacturers and software publishers to market new products . |
| 10 | Editor , — New patients registering with our general practice often complain about the time it takes us to get their NHS notes from the family health services authority . |
| 11 | Complain about the time it takes for the Beano to reach me . |
| 12 | Now and again life will give you this exact shape but 99% of the time it does n't and has to be reinvented . |
| 13 | Most of the time it falls on the troops from the sky , while they try to sleep in some half-filled trench . |
| 14 | The result is a flatter seven-layer management structure , the closure of seven factories , a tightening of the time it takes to bring products to market , and a concentration of effort on selling to industry sectors in which the company has established expertise . |
| 15 | As with most projects in Hollywood , there was always an overlap between one and another , sometimes of a year or two simply because of the time it takes to get an idea , or a script or a novel , written , financed , budgeted and into production . |
| 16 | It is a little known but true fact that a two legged creature can usually beat a four legged creature over a short distance , simply because of the time it takes the quadruped to get its legs sorted out . |
| 17 | ‘ There are very great difficulties in actually compelling people to come back here to give evidence — the crew for example — to a formal sheriff 's inquiry because of the time it takes to set up . ’ |
| 18 | And for much of the time it follows the Minchmoor Road , an ancient drove road which was also used by Scottish monarchs staying at Traquair House . |
| 19 | Unaided by technology ( but possibly assisted by an abundance of cheap labour and a convenient absence of red tape ) the Mark II establishment was up and running in a quarter of the time it has taken the current version to proceed from the stage of the second catastrophic fire in 1980 to opening its doors . |
| 20 | ‘ I just go in like a bull at a gate and most of the time it works . |
| 21 | It is cheaper than telephoning and a lot of the time it works . |
| 22 | Most of the time he spends in suspended animation in an interdicted bubble of the warp , summoned here only when intruders arrive — hence his confusion . |
| 23 | Raskolnikov lives with his pain , but most of the time he does n't focus on it . |
| 24 | A driver is sensitive to minute shifts in the pressures on his hand and in the rhythm of the engine , with an intensity of concentration which when tiring he sustains by an effort of will ; but most of the time he does not ponder alternatives , apply principles , or make decisions , his hands are as though moving of themselves . |
| 25 | Most of the time he does n't even know what elements he is trying to combine . |
| 26 | Round-the-World yachtsman Chay Blyth , 51 , is being sued for divorce by his wife , Margaret , on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour because of the time he has spent at sea . |
| 27 | Granted , he does have five- bedroom house in Bayswater ; he is married to one of the most powerful women in publishing ; but his children go to state schools , a good deal of the time he wears clothes from Marks & Spencer and he does not drive a car . |
| 28 | A lot of the time he needs space just for himself , to move on his own . |
| 29 | The rest of the time he worries , and argues , and sulks , and attends Luton Town open evenings ( although his ferocity is such that he is no longer very welcome at these ) . |
| 30 | For most of the time he appears amiably tipsy , but occasionally plunges into hidden depths — of agony and even some kind of distorted ecstasy . |