Example sentences of "[prep] the time [coord] the " in BNC.

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1 Though the inspector made no note of the time nor the wavelength of the broadcast , he remembered its contents .
2 it 's no wonder he looks so depressed most of the time but the
3 ‘ The trains between Montreal and Toronto are late three-quarters of the time and the new engines break down regularly .
4 For these exercises , the front bed will be set to knit for most of the time and the back bed , with its electronic selection , will be creating the pattern .
5 The success of this particular work pattern relied not on a formal structure , but on the economics of the time and the close personal relationships created within the team .
6 A stubborn Armagh defence clearly frustrated Portadown 's attacking edge for most of the time and the visitors took full advantage of their rare intrusions into Portadown territory .
7 because of the time and the
8 On setting down a note , agreed if possible , an estimate of the time and the number of witnesses to be called should be filed .
9 And if you cast your minds way back to Tuesday you will remember that what I said was that the Americans were trying to create a system of limited government er and yet one which er protected the liberties of individuals not all individuals , not black individuals especially but of individuals , this was the rhetoric of the time and the main device that they invented to do this was something called the separation of powers and they argued that , where political power is concentrated , the potential for abuse is greater so that where executive and legislative powers are held in the same hands , as they are in our system of government , the , there is more prospect of government encroaching upon the rights of individuals .
10 With reference to the three-dimensional search space shown in Figure 1.1 , we are building a recursive graph along the time and the knowledge-level axes .
11 Then , under hypnosis , they were regressed fourteen days to the time or the showing of the film and they were able to watch it again in their minds only — but this time , of course , they were aware of the questions in advance and so they knew what they had to look out for .
12 ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East .
13 He had been shooting since he was about five years old ; there were few clubs or competitions around at the time but the Scorton was one of the leading ones .
14 Of course the debate in government and Parliament was crucial but it was not the only way in which the educational reform was tested at the time nor the only way to assess it later .
15 You are faced with half a packet of dusty dried peas , the unopened naan bread mix that seemed such a good idea at the time and the smoked oysters left over from last year 's Christmas hamper .
16 Steve Douglas 's Fanzine ‘ Go for It ’ started this year , and from a piece of folded photocopied paper , it eventually went on to become a printed glossy skate mag covering much of the skate scene at the time and the next few years for which the Farnborough scene played a major part if not the main part .
17 She was exactly three months pregnant at the time and the shock caused her to miscarry .
18 Lowe happened to have a Manly Rugby Club official building his house at the time and the official acted as an intermediary between Lowe and Ofahengaue .
19 Russia and Cuba were expanding their activities in Africa at the time and the generals were demanding every man as a counterweight in Europe against the Warsaw Pact armies .
20 Unfortunately , an engine and five coaches were on the bridge at the time and the ninety passengers were drowned .
21 Later research shows this story to have been unlikely : the Court was not at Wilton at the time and the Earl of Pembroke was not on speaking terms with Laud .
22 He argues that there must be an accumulation of ‘ circumstances ’ and ‘ currents ’ that ‘ fuse ’ into a ‘ ruptural unity ’ that involves not only the level of the relations of production but also the conditions of existence prevailing at the time and the international conjuncture ( Althusser 1969 : 100 ) .
23 They are said to have disagreed on the ceremony of ordination for a bishop , Rome requiring at least three other bishops to be present while the Celtic Church required only one — a plausible enough position , given the difficulties Ireland posed to travel at the time and the small number of bishops in the country anyway .
24 He was living in Redruth at the time and the long drive up to the parsonage seemed a very good place for the test .
25 TWW had n't long lost the franchise at the time and the early plans by Harlech , as they were then unwisely called , for news presentation in Bristol just were n't working out .
26 The establishment of the welfare state and a large nationalized sector ( at the end of the 1930s/1940s period of change ) was due to the political balance in the country at the time and the need of UK industry for a rational provision of education , health and economic infrastructure at the core of the economy .
27 Anyway , I 'd been staying with them in darkest Kensington , at Mr Gibbon 's very grand , three-storeyed town-house in Ascot Square , just off Addison Road , and working at a branch of Mondo-Food on Victoria Street ( they were trying a new line in Haggisburgers at the time and the manager thought my accent would help shift them .
28 They were having a mission at the time and the preacher told Mother that it would have done her far more good to go to chapel than knit a quilt .
29 Attempts have been made to regularize the position and , in 1966 , the Russell Report on the Supply and Training of Teachers recommended that , by 1969 , a professional training requirement should be introduced for all new entrants into the further education colleges , a recommendation that was never implemented because of the urgent need for teachers at the time and the shortage of money .
30 ‘ It was daylight at the time and the curtains in your brother 's office were drawn . ’
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