Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of commissioning artists to decorate ceramics in their own individual styles was a tradition first established in the 1770s when Josiah Wedgwood employed the services of noted artists of the time . |
| 2 | He checked his watch ; fifty-five minutes from the time he had replaced the phone in Mr Patel 's fruit store . |
| 3 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 4 | Political maps of the time show how complex the situation really was when Rodrigo began to exercise an influence . |
| 5 | Harbour commissions , like so many other improving economic institutions of the time enabled by act of parliament , undertook a steady upgrading and extension . |
| 6 | For the dominant , there may be a more flexible perimeter , depending upon the political tactics of the time . |
| 7 | The company 's infiltration of the UK market was accelerated by the migration of a variety of British musicians to the infamous German clubs of the time , where they would perform rock'n'roll covers for audiences consisting largely of US Forces personnel . |
| 8 | If you take our recommended holiday insurance with the Eagle Star group and your baggage is not delivered within 12 hours from the time of arrival at your holiday destination due to delay or misdirection in delivery , you are covered up to £100 for essential purchases . |
| 9 | In the event of the Insured Person being deprived of baggage for at least 12 hours from the time of arrival at holiday destination due to delay or misdirection in delivery , the Norwich Union will pay to the Insured Person an amount of up to £75 for emergency purchase of essential items of clothing and requisites subject to certification of such delay , misdirection and expenditure by the HCI Representative . |
| 10 | There was no single incident that Loretta could pinpoint as the cause , merely a series of minor hold-ups ; and Bridget had mislaid her car keys , causing them to set off a few minutes after the time they had agreed . |
| 11 | The engine was recorded as having a total time of 302.30 hours at the time of the accident . |
| 12 | Approximately half a century later , Irenaeus , Bishop of Lyons , issued his violent and dogmatic attack on the prevalent heresies of the time , Adversus haereses . |
| 13 | You 're sure to spend a good few hours at the time playing this fun sports sim — so do n't for get the suntan oil ! |
| 14 | That change of historical focus would allow composers who did not so much ‘ negate ’ , as work through the social conflicts of the time ( such as Verdi , Elgar , Liszt ) to be readmitted to the ‘ progressive ’ ranks . |
| 15 | Although they began to be replaced in the more advanced parts of China by bronze coins by the middle of the first millennium B.C. , they still circulated in some provinces at the time of Marco Polo 's visit during the late thirteenth century . |
| 16 | Some of these straight orthocone nautiloids achieve considerable dimensions , several metres long , and they must have been formidable predators on the other marine animals of the time . |
| 17 | The village children were reading at least some words by the time they were six . |
| 18 | But the weather deteriorated and the wind increased to around 30 miles-per-hour by the time Jack was out and shot a 76 , giving us a three-stroke advantage over the Bear . |
| 19 | Important theoretical influences at the time were the writings of Bernstein , Illich and Freire . |
| 20 | In four patients abdominal pain , controlled by analgesics , persisted until death at 2 , 2 , 8 , and 12 months from the time of diagnosis . |
| 21 | In other words to break his deemed domicile a person leaving the United Kingdom must be outside of the United Kingdom for three years counting three lots of 12 months from the time he left the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | These show a remarkable grasp of the prevalent styles of the time that were adopted by both Italian and English composers , and especially by J C Bach . |
| 23 | Other interesting trades of the time were shoemakers , a weaver , a straw-hat maker , a druggist and a castrator , plus the more usual ones . |
| 24 | Despite that , I managed to speak 322 words in the time left to me by Labour Members and Ministers . |
| 25 | One of the most popular motifs at the time the shop opened was of swans and lions , which came from an old , heraldic design ; another was a Persian print showing a fantastical dog in a jungle of giant thistles . |
| 26 | erm the advertisements themselves called a great caused a great furore because erm Tampax was a fairly new invention and because of the sexual and social mores of the time they were n't considered very nice . |
| 27 | He seemed to have resolved his sexual hang-ups for the time being and was content with his lonely existence . |
| 28 | The rebuilt database will reflect all completed transactions at the time the error was detected . |
| 29 | The question enrages China , which gobbled up Tibet in 1951 ( to few protests at the time ) . |
| 30 | A paper by David Whitaker claims an 86% hit rate for Bookseller entries with public libraries at the time of ordering titles , and 80%–100% hit rates at the time of cataloguing . |