Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the beauty and the loving care with which many a smaller city had been built and adorned in the early days of the Greek cities is a vital element in the history of the Greek city , obscurely pointing to a time , not of peace — for in Greece the lion never lay down with the lamb , and neighbouring cities constantly fought each other — but of more equal prosperity . |
| 2 | Whereas Aristotle did not enquire into the mental process by which we perceive time , because he believed that our minds must necessarily conform to the time of the physical universe , St Augustine took the mind 's activity as the basis of temporal measurement . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Certainly not compared to the time he got caught messing around on the roof of Battersea Power Station trying to nick the lead . |
| 5 | Once the power supply is restored , the time required to correct data damaged will not add to the time required for recovery from systems errors described above . |
| 6 | The Session would not agree to the time ; and that seems to have been the end of it . |
| 7 | The epoch of blue shift is usually confined to the time when the object is still inside the event horizon . |
| 8 | Thus , the time taken to identify a /t/ will be directly related to the time taken to identify the word in which it occurs ; and , as we have seen , this time depends on the word 's recognition point . |
| 9 | The excavations on the south side of the High Street in 1961–2 also revealed the earliest version of Watling Street , probably dating to the time of the conquest , with associated timber-framed buildings ; the road was originally 2.7 m ( 9 ft ) wide , although it was soon widened to 6.7 m ( 22 ft ) , and a central stone-built drain effectively divided it into two carriageways . |
| 10 | We are now coming to the time of the year when paddlers start competing again in marathons and it would be nice to remember the ancient Greeks who started it all off . |
| 11 | The time taken to reach the highest speed is small compared to the time spent operating at this speed , so a large switching angle is chosen . |
| 12 | As outlined earlier , Tiger and Fox suggest that there is an innate ‘ male bonding ’ stemming from millions of years ' history and ultimately linked to a time when men co-operated in order to hunt . |
| 13 | Drinking with meals the correct way can actually be ‘ slimming ’ , in that it can helpfully add to the time it takes to consume high-fibre meals . |