Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other propositions may not be testable even in principle but may remain for the time as a necessary component of an overall paradigm . |
| 2 | Robert Bevan , one of their number , had worked at Pont-Aven and had known Paul Gauguin , and Sickert , whose sympathy with France went deep , owned a house in Neuville , on the outskirts of Dieppe , which he lent for a time to the Gilmans . |
| 3 | Her father was under clad for the time of year but was sweating heavily . |
| 4 | These courses could not be done in a shorter time so they were normally arranged for a time of year when there was less pressure of work on those participating . |
| 5 | It was invented by the Joseph-Robinson corporation , a particularly unscrupulous food company that operated for a time amongst the outer colonies of the planet Earth . ’ |
| 6 | The convoy was halted for a time by protesters at Dalreoch , on the Dumbarton-Helensburgh road , again at Helensburgh and on the third occasion at the protest camp at the gates to the base . |
| 7 | Hunt lived for a time as a tax exile in Marbella , sharing an estate with another ex model , Jane ‘ Hottie ’ Birbeck . |
| 8 | In the famous Middletown studies made by Robert and Helen Lynd the Lynds lived for a time in Muncie , Indiana , but were always known to be researchers . |
| 9 | A contemporary of Gundulić was Junije Palmotić ( 1606–57 ) , a Ragusan noble who lived for a time in Bosnia , and who drew upon the Slav folk tales as well as on contemporary Italian and ancient classical traditions for the abundant outpouring of songs , satires , verse epics and dramas which he composed . |
| 10 | ‘ We lived for a time in Washington DC , ’ she said slowly . |
| 11 | Much of the learning and practice of the Egyptians was absorbed by Greek physicians , one of the best known of whom is Dioscorides , an army doctor who lived during the time of Nero in the first century AD . |
| 12 | Broadly the period 1951–87 can be divided into four parts : 1951–64 , a period of comparatively little social policy innovation which may be regarded as a time of consolidation or stagnation , according to one 's political viewpoint ; 1964–74 , a period of fairly intense policy change stimulated by both political parties , in which considerable difficulties were experienced in translating aspirations into practice ; 1974–78 , a period in which rapid inflation and government by the Labour party without a parliamentary majority administered a severe shock to the political and social system , and to all who believed that there was still a need for developments in social policy ; and 1979–87 , when much more explicitly anti-welfare state Conservative administrations reinforced that shock by deliberately treating inflation as more deserving of its attention than unemployment , attacking public services which were seen as inhibiting economic recovery and seeking ways to ‘ privatize ’ public services . |
| 13 | This means that the model of continuous and homogeneous time which Lévi-Strauss had also argued against can not here be regarded as the time of history . |
| 14 | Conversely youth is depicted as a time of vitality and good health . |
| 15 | Elsewhere in the country , one polling station in the south was occupied for a time by Khmer Rouge troops , who eventually stole a UN car and left . |
| 16 | He mused for a time over alternative means of strengthening control , even on the possibility of a Minister replacing Citrine as chairman , but in the end he accepted the logic of the independent Morrisonian public corporation on which Labour 's nationalisation had ostensibly been based . |
| 17 | The couple returned to the Howard estate at Cardington in Bedfordshire at first but moved for a time to Lymington on the Hampshire coast later , for the sake of her health . |
| 18 | Through Hoskyns he had come for the time under the influence of the leader of anti-rational European theology , Karl Barth , who at this moment was back in Basle after being expelled from Germany by the Nazis . |
| 19 | If rates do fall about the time of the next Budget these loans appear to offer reasonable value . |
| 20 | In Rockingham and Whittlewood they appear to have been discontinued after the time of Charles I , and in 1789 the Rt . |
| 21 | He watched me , smiling but sharp , and for some reason — for no reason — I was reminded of a time at school when I had tried to make one friend betray another , and failed . |
| 22 | Buchanan 's Triangles clubmate Mark Tosh pushed hard to try and catch him on the five-mile run but the Derry man won in a time of 1.28.52 . |
| 23 | Are you so trapped in a time of royalty and titles that you ca n't envisage a world in which a woman has obligations ? ’ |
| 24 | The time allotted in different local education authorities for solving the kinds of issue described above ranged from no time at all , through one day every term , two hours once a month , to one afternoon , and in one case a whole day each week . |
| 25 | * Technical note : like last week to ensure a fair contest , all extracts have been given the same epistolary format that Bragg used in A Time To Dance . |
| 26 | The evidence for this assumption seems in the end to be the fact that Taskopruzade uses for the first time in relation to Molla Fenari a distinctly official-sounding title which appears to encompass the entire Ottoman state , namely ; but it must be reiterated that there is no evidence in Taskopruzade 's account to suggest that this appointment occurred in the time of Murad II rather than earlier , perhaps in the time of Mehmed I or even of Bayezid I. |
| 27 | Although he was alleged to have made huge profits from drug trafficking , Noriega 's bank accounts had been frozen since the time of his arrest . |
| 28 | The 1971 Act provides that all permissions must have conditions relating to the time within which the development must be started and approval of reserve matters sought . |
| 29 | With Samson we have to decide whether we should concentrate on the time of its circulation in the early 1670s or whether we should attempt to determine a precise date of composition . |
| 30 | The court , in deciding that W was not guilty , said that a supplier of goods does not commit an offence under section 1 if he does not know at the time of supply or offer to supply that the trade description was applied to the goods . |