Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took the Board of Trade ‘ ticket ’ to command his own ships and he invented an instrument for computing time at sea . |
| 2 | The practical problem of choosing a course of action is compounded by the difficulty of predicting the consequences of a particular pollution without spending a great deal of precious time on the problem : |
| 3 | Our strong regional and branch structure is a tremendous asset and I pay tribute to the many members centrally and regionally who give a great deal of voluntary time to the profession and their Institute . |
| 4 | The even stretch of well-employed time in that paradise begins to show irregular rents . |
| 5 | It is through the conception of historical time as a continuum that the past becomes a coherent object . |
| 6 | In the IBM case , IBM was considered by the Commission to hold a dominant position ( inter alia ) in the supply of two key products for a particular computer system , and was found to have abused its dominant position by refusing to supply other manufacturers in sufficient time with technical information to permit the interfacing of those other products with IBM equipment , particularly by tying in the supply of IBM software and hardware and by discriminating between users of IBM software . |
| 7 | Sometimes it helps if the person who is holding the horse , pats the horse on the neck in exact time to the farrier hammering on its foot — especially if it is the actual hammering that worries the horse the most . |
| 8 | Sporting achievement and participation is high at Jordanstown , with outstanding performances in recent times in hockey , Gaelic football , basketball and squash . |
| 9 | Sporting achievement and participation is high at Jordanstown , with outstanding performances in recent times in hockey , Gaelic football , basketball and squash . |
| 10 | But there had been no overall review in recent times of the problem of crime and criminals by an independent and authoritative body . |
| 11 | There was no privacy , the ‘ moving wallpaper ’ simply ran from the time they returned from industrial therapy to tea-and-bed time at about 9.15p.m . |
| 12 | It has been a common practice since ancient times to date official documents by the year of the rulers issuing them , or from within whose jurisdiction they emanated . |
| 13 | This latter development gathered momentum at different times in different places . |
| 14 | 5.15 Re-letting boards To permit the Landlord at any time during the last [ 6 ] months of the Contractual Term and at any time thereafter [ unless the Tenant shall have made a valid court application under Section 24 of the 1954 Act or otherwise be entitled in law to remain in occupation or to a new tenancy of the Premises ] [ ( or sooner if the rents or any part of them shall be in arrear and unpaid for longer than [ 28 ] days ) ] to enter upon the Premises and affix and retain anywhere upon the Premises a notice for re-letting the Premises and during such period to permit persons with the written authority of the Landlord or [ its ] agent at reasonable times of the day to view the Premises It is not unreasonable for the landlord to be entitled to erect a re-letting board at the premises within a reasonable period prior to the termination of the term unless the tenant proposes to apply for a new tenancy of the premises , provided that the board is in a position so as not to interfere with the tenant 's or any undertenant 's business being carried on at the premises . |
| 15 | The clause could be amended as follows : To permit the Landlord at any time during the last [ 6 ] months of the Contractual Term and at any time thereafter unless the Tenant shall have made a valid court application under Section 24 of the 1954 Act or otherwise be entitled in law to remain in occupation or to a new tenancy of the Premises to enter upon the Premises and affix and retain upon the Premises in a position so as not to interfere with the Tenant 's or any undertenant 's business being carried on at the Premises a notice for re-letting the Premises and during such period to permit persons with the written authority of the Landlord or its agent at reasonable times of the day on reasonable notice to view the Premises |
| 16 | The POND software , for example , displays complicated graphs on screen showing activity in the pond at different times of the year . |
| 17 | The words at reasonable times of the day should be inserted after the words to view the Premises |
| 18 | For instance , in good planning the teacher would take into -account , not only what the students would be doing and receiving in his subject and his periods , but with other teachers in other subjects at other times of the day . |
| 19 | The optimum balance between full- and part-time staff will differ widely , dependent on workload at particular times of the day and the established pattern of working hours in each location . |
| 20 | More recently , however , it has been found that bright light at other times of the day — in the evening , which also mimics the light in summer-time , and at noon , which does not lengthen daylight hours — has an effect also . |
| 21 | DNase I digestion patterns of actinomycin- tyr T DNA complexes at various times after the addition of an excess of calf thymus DNA . |
| 22 | The ERA became law on 29 July 1988 , though each of its many provisions will come into force at different times over the next few years . |
| 23 | There can not be many general booksellers who do not broaden their product range beyond books at certain times of the year . |
| 24 | Similar lava lakes to that of Halemaumau have been reported from many strange places : two of the most active volcanoes in Africa , Nyamlagira and Nyiragongo , have both had persistent lava lakes at different times in their history . |
| 25 | The engine that was fired-up in honour of the FlyPast visit , had clocked-up just over 90 minutes of running time at that point and sounded as sweet as a nut . |
| 26 | The Opposition may not like it , but does my right hon. Friend believe that there is a case for allowing a small part of parliamentary time for the Leader of the Opposition to be questioned ? |
| 27 | Quite a bit of spare time on the old hands . |
| 28 | bit of negative time in there . |
| 29 | The milk train became an essential fact of rural life , altering its rhythms by demanding the co-ordination of milking times with train departures . |
| 30 | In the event of equipment failures or software errors occurring , the lexicographers will lose no more than 17 hours of available time in any continuous three month period as a result of extra processing required to correct data damaged by the errors . |