Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the time on " in BNC.
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| 1 | As reported in The Times on 4 April , Bush called for forces within Iraq to unseat Saddam , anticipating a military coup mounted by disaffected generals . |
| 2 | Then , as Michael McCarthy reported in The Times on 9 September 1989 , ‘ Europe 's biggest reservoir was closed to people and animals after the discovery of a possibly poisonous bloom of algae in the water . ’ |
| 3 | In 1958 , Reginald Bassett lamented the fact ‘ that no study of the General Election of 1931 was made at the time on the lines of the extremely useful studies of the 1945 and subsequent General Elections sponsored by Nuffield College ’ . |
| 4 | The point is , you see , that I did not ask you to go and look at the time on that clock ; I merely asked you to study the numerals on it . |
| 5 | Geoclock UK is a shareware program that shows a coloured map of the earth together with the time and date ( which is based on the time on your PC 's clock ) . |
| 6 | Geoclock UK is a shareware program that shows a coloured map of the earth together with the time and date ( which is based on the time on your PC 's clock ) . |
| 7 | This was the argument voiced by The Times on 8 October : ‘ The working of parliamentary institutions , of democratic responsibility , and of constitutional practice , demands it . ’ |
| 8 | During 1970 and 1971 a series of articles and editorials appeared in the Times on the poor quality of TVZ transmissions , particularly on the Copperbelt . |
| 9 | Happily , a footnote in her diary for 19 December 1975 states that , ‘ His letter , condemning industrial action by the consultants , duly appeared in The Times on 22 December 1975 . ’ |
| 10 | Ruskin wrote to The Times on ‘ The Turner Gallery ’ , the day after Freeman 's letter and , as a postscript , said : ‘ I wish the writer of the admirable and exhaustive letter which appeared in your columns yesterday on the subject of Mr Scott 's design for the Foreign Office would allow me to know his name ’ . |
| 11 | We were engaged at the time on a pre-disturbance survey of HMS Hazardous , a man-of-war which sank in November 1706 . |
| 12 | The time recorded on two different watches , for example , can be perfectly associated : the time on one of them can be correctly predicted from the time on the other , but not because the time on one of them causes the time on the other ; altering the time on one of them would have absolutely no impact on the other . |
| 13 | In a letter published in The Times on March 2nd , the Cardinal said : ‘ Whatever stance individuals may take over the morality of the nuclear deterrent , there must be general agreement on the aim of preventing the spread of weapons to non-nuclear states . ’ |