Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the time and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mytho-history of this kind provides a cosmological setting for the time and space of ordinary experience but , in addition , by exhibiting the contrast of possibilities , it offers a rationale for the complex rules and conventions which characterize " our " particular way of doing things . |
| 2 | For example , aspects of the time and place of the discourse in ( 5 ) are important because they have a bearing on what the speaker says in the fragment ( forty years after the described event took place , but still in Stornoway ) . |
| 3 | They were constrained by s I mean like what they wanted to do was constrained by the practical sort of necessities of the time and even if they had wanted to have a more vigorous policy of land reform |
| 4 | Their very excellence makes heavy demands on the time and energy of their teaching faculty , so people who stay long in such places rarely produce the books and articles commonly published by their counterparts in bigger universities , and are therefore often little known outside their own institutions . |
| 5 | The capacity rules are just part of a now long list of rules and regulations that surround university life , and make extra demands on the time and freedom of academics . |
| 6 | She was in the bedroom at the time and in an advanced state of pregnancy . |
| 7 | Salmon , who was close to Picasso at the time and whose interest in tribal art probably antedates Picasso 's , confirms this . |
| 8 | We were living in Surrey at the time and I was sharing a double bed with my brother , who 's five years older than me . |
| 9 | We were playing three piece at the time and we thought , ‘ What are we going to do ? ’ |
| 10 | Handloom weaving was an important cottage industry at the time and Charles was sent to Kilbarchan in Renfrewshire to learn the trade ; that was why Robert Burns referred to him as ‘ Wabster ( weaver ) Charlie ’ in the poem Epistle to James Tennant . |
| 11 | You mentioned Christopher , what er the last time it 's , I 'm going back a little while , the last time I was talking with Janet he , she was a bit unhappy , I think he was in er a teaching practice at the time and she was wondering how he was going to go on . |
| 12 | He worked for the KGB at the time and he knew everything because he was involved in the secret inquiry that was set up into the ‘ incident ’ , as he called it . |
| 13 | Early Viennese modernism at the time and just after the time of the Secession of 1898 , parallel to the rise of the mass popular political movements , challenged this habitus of the Bürgertum from ‘ below ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ It was daylight at the time and the curtains in your brother 's office were drawn . ’ |
| 15 | David Gilford , for instance , hits the fairway with his tee shot at least 80% of the time , Tony Johnstone gets up and down from greenside bunkers around 90% of the time and , just as remarkable , Colin Montgomerie hits 77% of greens in regulation . |
| 16 | Well I went to work on the Saturday morning at six and we were dredging until half past twelve , then we would , then do repairs till five o'clock at night and then five o'clock at night , when the other crew had gone home , when I start to stay there then from five o'clock Saturday night till Monday morning six o'clock all the time just to keep watch on the dredger , I used to sleep mind you during part of the time and erm used to have a big old tortoise stove down the cabin and make good fire . |
| 17 | The idea was enthusiastically received by the General Committee of the time and Laureen was asked to proceed . |
| 18 | Heilbroner ( 1974 ) , examining the human prospect in the mid-1970s referred to an ‘ erosion of confidence ’ as characteristic of the mood of the time and attributed it in part to ‘ a fear that we will be unable to sustain the trend of economic growth for very much longer ’ , and the recognition that we face ‘ a hitherto unimaginable prospect — a ceiling on industrial production ’ . |
| 19 | It is a tribute to EMI engineers of the time and their faithful successors today that this and the even earlier ( 1937 ) version of Sibelius 's Fourth Symphony come up sounding so truthful ( CDM7 64027 2 ) . |
| 20 | Disputed claims can be an unnecessary drag on effective management of construction projects in that they absorb an enormous quantity of the time and energy of trained staff in unproductive activity |
| 21 | And , as to institutional extensions , the culminating sentences of the Introduction propose appropriate measures of action : " The enrolment of a fraternity of itinerant preachers on English literature … would be a step in accord with other movements of the time and with our national tradition of unpaid public service " . |
| 22 | Her approach is fruitful in that it explores major issues in women 's poetry of the time and its relation to the literary mainstream . |
| 23 | There are all sorts of comparatively small changes you can make which will transform your kitchen 's looks out of all proportion to the time and expense . |
| 24 | In that way , you get the best return on the time and effort you put into revision . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Aunt Ilsa was in the library ; she had a heavy cold at the time and I am tempted to say we discovered her poring over a map , but the inelegant truth is that she was searching the shelves for a misplaced book when we entered . |
| 27 | He was working at ICI Billingham at the time and it had become habit , from his days as a London businessman , to wear a flower . |
| 28 | He stayed in digs in a colliery village at the time and found it equally possible to integrate easily into the local community . |
| 29 | The lads were having lunch at the time and when ‘ Jacki ’ leaned over to shake hands with Peter Grant , his tie fell into a bowl of soup . |
| 30 | I was still living with my parents at the time and I 'd not long passed my driving test — with Bernie 's assistance — so I borrowed my old man 's Austin Cambridge one Sunday morning and drove over to Nick 's . |