Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun pl] [prep] time " in BNC.
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1 | By combining these two exercises , teachers are in a much better position to be able to say to the demanders , whether parents , government or somewhere in between : ‘ Given the resources of time , material , support and expertise , we are able to do A , B and C or C , D and E , but not A , B and E , let alone all five . |
2 | You might think , therefore , that this strategy is unrealistic , given the demands on time in the classroom . |
3 | These must reach Somalia within the next 10 days so people can plant the seeds in time for the rainy season . |
4 | The Agaw were Hamites and had inhabited the highlands since time immemorial . |
5 | ‘ According to our history , they discovered the power to drive the experiments in time , ’ the Doctor replied . |
6 | Unfortunately , Lola could not deliver the cars in time for Indianapolis and Mr Rahal failed to qualify for the race . |
7 | Our subject points towards wider horizons , offering a further dimension of perception and perspective , giving us at least the illusion that we transcend the confines of time . |
8 | Buses carrying replacement workers for the 340 sacked strikers entered the gates on time for their day shift . |
9 | Unlike so many others , a Swan stands the tests of time well . |
10 | Are we going to hide the ravages of time as cleverly as we can for a few more years , or gradually make the necessary adaptations in order to create a new image that is not a faded version of the old but corresponds in an attractive and lively way to the new stage in life which we have reached ? |
11 | Later we shall need to relate the squares of time intervals in different frames . |
12 | Benedict was near thirty , and yet his face and form had withstood the ravages of time and circumstance . |
13 | Despite a devastating 6–2 , 6–2 victory over Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere in the first round of the Virginia Slims Championships in New York , which left Maleeva insisting that the American is still playing well enough to be number one , Martina believes she can feel the winds of time beginning to blow . |
14 | They do this even though they may break the conventions from time to time . |
15 | The landlord must be given a specific date towards which to work ( with time being of the essence ) , which will obviously also be important from the tenant 's point of view as the tenant may be subject to seasonal trade variations in business and may wish , for example , to open the premises in time for the Christmas trade . |
16 | If they failed to reach the fuses in time , they 'd be killed with the rest on the wall , and only a little earlier than the men of both sides who would open fire , without doubt , claiming treachery . |
17 | Hall has made the covers of Time as well as the Village Voice , and ascended into ratings heaven ( only one rival tops his statistics : the evergreen Johnny Carson Show ) . |
18 | He said , but he said it does n't give us the excuse of not paying the invoices on time , and he said erm I have warned him for it this morning and he said he will process it , and he said the cheque will be in the post here on Monday . |
19 | But the women who have n't bothered with make-up — unless they 've taken superlative care of their complexions — have now got skin that shows the ravages of time . |
20 | Right so , you know , there are those who would teach that Jesus he would die for our sins and he 's forgiven us sins , but only those who come to him , Jesus died for the sin of the whole world , for every man , woman , boy and girl that has ever lived or ever will live , he died for the sin of the whole world , not just for those even who lived after his death , that 's why it talks about in the Old Testament people like Abraham looking for that day , and so Jesus who in , when he died , because he 's eternal , so we 've got the problems with time , God has n't got problems with time , he 's eternal and so his sacrifice , the sacrifice of him on the cross was effective for Abraham as it is for you , it was as effective for David as it was for Paul otherwise Abraham would never of had his sins forgiven because what happened with all the sacrifice with all the little lambs that were killed and all the goats and all the rest they only acted as a covering for sin , did n't take them away , it covered them , what for , until the moment when Jesus would come and would take those sins away and so when you think of David 's sin , his adultery and his murder , how does he get forgiven for that because Jesus died from the cross and he takes upon himself David 's sin and he takes upon him Abraham 's sin and Noah 's sin and Adam 's sin , just as much as your sin and the person who will be born in ten years time their sin also , all our sins er as Gloria just read there from , from one John to two they were all of him he has died for every one , well that 's his humiliation , hurry along quickly now his exhortation , the period from Jesus 's resurrection onward is referred to as to the , as the state of exhortation , now what does that term mean , well as Jesus according to his divine nature has always been , he was always every where , now in his human nature , before , be , sorry it 's not , it 's not on that one , but before he , he came to earth , he was every where , he was God , he was , he was omnia present that means he was every where at the same time , but he takes upon himself he 's su , he 's , he 's human nature and he takes upon himself the limitations and when Jesus is walking down second avenue in , in Jerusalem he 's not in Nazareth that 's why there were times when people came to er , to , to , came rushing out because they heard that Jesus was passing by , see he was n't there resident with them , he passed by , now he 's gone back to heaven and where is he , he 's in heaven , he , er whereabouts , where do you think Jesus is now , that resurrected body that was glorified that has gone back to heaven , where do you think it is |
21 | Even phonology seemed worth while now , whispering the sounds of time into the very material that poets used , the vowels jealously mutating , angrily fracturing as consonant groups shifted to their conditioned cues in wild adenoidal ecstasies . |
22 | My purpose was to see if I could write a novel with only two characters , preserving the unities of time , place and action ( it all happens in one day in John 's London flat ) , without any cheating through long flashbacks or such devices . |
23 | He was meeting Gilbert Verrall , the presenter of a TV series called The Footsteps of Time . |
24 | But every coin has a flip side ; although we might be better equipped to maintain health , we should recognise that we can not stem the effects of time . |
25 | There seems no reason why the heir to a title should not enter the Lords before time as a life peer . |
26 | The latter survived the bombings of World War II better than it survived the ravages of time after Leonardo 's highly original method of fresco working failed to live up to its inventor 's hopes , but it still remains one of the masterpieces of Renaissance art . |
27 | Such attacks were reinforcing the pressures on time and space which in a changing economy were restricting the room allowed to traditional recreational forms . |
28 | The twelve century church is suffering the effects of time . |
29 | Thus , where a lease contained a covenant to build certain buildings by a specified date and an obligation to keep them in repair , it was held that once the tenant had failed to build the buildings on time , no further covenant to build could be implied from the covenant to repair ( Stephens v Junior Army and Navy Stores [ 1914 ] 2 Ch 516 ) . |
30 | If you decide you want to a buy a new cooker and you go to the Gas Showrooms or the Electricity Showrooms and say I 'd like to buy that cooker there and I would like to spread the payments over time , normally nowadays twenty four months or thirty six months . |