Example sentences of "[prep] the time [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it might be more appropriate to wait until nearer the time to send a memo , I do n't know . |
| 2 | He said the intention was that beds in intensive care units were managed so that the were occupied 70pc of the time leaving a 30pc capacity to take emergency cases like road accident victims . |
| 3 | Guides of the time constructed an apparently more active leisure consumer , concerned with fashion , health , individual sports and style . |
| 4 | The farthing was still a useful unit of currency and the coins of the time had a grace and beauty which have since disappeared . |
| 5 | He di n't really impress me , but — The Leeds team of the time had a great defence , I do n't think Best ever scored against Paul Reaney , who he regards as his most difficult opponent . |
| 6 | Any trawl through the columns of local papers of the time catches a number of cases of cruelty to apprentices which to our age , shocked by revelations of child abuse , suggests the tip of an iceberg . |
| 7 | Undoubtedly the risings were connected with each other in so far as the news of the initial outbreak in Essex seems to have sparked off further unrest in adjacent counties , and later in more remote parts , and it is certain that the general circumstances of the time created an atmosphere which was ripe for revolt , but the differences of aim among the different groups of rebels suggest that each had its own grievances which it hoped to right by force . |
| 8 | However , it must be acknowledged also that the conditions of the time have an important part to play in determining the feasibility of any particular type of exchange rate system . |
| 9 | Now we were using a rather old radio set at the time called a TR9 that was not one of the better things that our radio and radar boffins produced for us in the early days of RT air-to-ground and vice-versa . |
| 10 | Hodge had fostered relations with the Korean Democratic Party ( KDP ) , which at the time took a pro-American stance and preferred a continuance of the American occupation to any suggestion of trusteeship . |
| 11 | Jokes circulating in Bavaria at the time told a different tale . |
| 12 | And the people who were farming Blind Beck at the time killed a pig and sent down a lovely pork pie to us . |
| 13 | The researcher who collects data on everything under the sun , just because it seems so easy at the time to ask a few more questions about this and that , usually rues the day when the analysis of all the answers has to be carried out . |
| 14 | Pallister recalled : ‘ What some people in the game said at the time left a bad taste in my mouth . |
| 15 | The murder trial jury heard how Carter at the time serving a sentence for robbery had subjected Darren Brook to a ‘ barbaric ’ ordeal , which included forcing him to write a suicide note . |
| 16 | The film showed his Ferrari jerking right ( Ferrari never carried out an inquiry , but Niki 's chief mechanic at the time conjectured a snapped rear left tie-rod ) , crashing through the chicken wire into the embankment — it was one of several dozen such places at the Ring and spectators were few — bouncing back onto the track , its petrol tank flying through the air . |
| 17 | In 1840 Thomas Wilkins , who was at the time running a successful baking business , took over the mill in the centre of Bourton then known as Lower Valley Water Mills . |
| 18 | The bomb exploded , apparently prematurely , in an empty bank building near a concert hall where the band of the Blues and Royals was at the time giving a charity performance in front of some 350 people . |
| 19 | For the remainder of the Thirties , Parks developed his unique talent for catching beautiful women in mid-air , as it were , and the pictures that appeared in the pages of Harpers Bazaar at the time represent an important stage in the development of naturalistic fashion photography . |
| 20 | A study of the assault made on our plans at the time reveals a number of points that were put forward as incontrovertible arguments against what we were proposing . |