Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the time and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edith Durham sought to redress the balance in dispatches for The Times and the Manchester Guardian and through indefatigable lobbying in Whitehall and elsewhere . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Mr Griffiths is the music critic of the Times and has written several books on music , including a study of Olivier Messiaen . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She was in the bedroom at the time and in an advanced state of pregnancy . |
| 9 | Salmon , who was close to Picasso at the time and whose interest in tribal art probably antedates Picasso 's , confirms this . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We were playing three piece at the time and we thought , ‘ What are we going to do ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ It was daylight at the time and the curtains in your brother 's office were drawn . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Another speaker , Michael Traber , WACC 's Director of Studies and Publications , said : ‘ It is the task of the mass media and theology to read the signs of the times and to interpret the changes that occur in the world in order to make sense of them . ’ |
| 20 | But he had been bitten by the newspaper bug , and various groups of disaffected newspaper people , including disgruntled employees and ex-employees of The Times and the Sunday Times , approached him with a number of implausible journalistic ventures . |
| 21 | Pages that had seemed worthless a few days before were now pored over , in the hope that they 'd yield some clue , encoded in the fanciful excesses of Chant 's idiosyncratic and ill-punctuated prose , that would lead him to some fresh comprehension of the times and their movers . |
| 22 | He wrote what must have been the one of the shortest letters of all time , and he wrote back to the editor of The Times and he said , dear sir , in answer to your question what is wrong with the world |
| 23 | The idea was enthusiastically received by the General Committee of the time and Laureen was asked to proceed . |
| 24 | Prince von Bülow during his tenure of the imperial chancellorship in 1900 – 09 took a higher view than any of his predecessors of the importance of the press and gave frequent newspaper interviews , while the German government , and William II himself , reacted strongly to the hostile attitude of the Times and its Berlin correspondent , George Saunders . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | 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 " . |
| 29 | Her approach is fruitful in that it explores major issues in women 's poetry of the time and its relation to the literary mainstream . |
| 30 | 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 . |