Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For our answer we have made an arbitrary assumption that he uses his car for 80% of the time for business and that half the repairs etc. relate to that car . |
| 2 | Depressed production , costly for Leyland at the time , is good news for investors now because it has endowed the Stag with scarcity appeal . |
| 3 | Summerill is staying on as chairman for the time being . |
| 4 | He was blindfolded for part of the time , which had the effect of making him ‘ look inside of himself ’ and he admitted that he was not ready for the experience and some of the discoveries he made . |
| 5 | If a large meeting breaks into small groups for part of the time , any of the following ideas could be used : |
| 6 | This , as Economist journalists discovered , proved to be a highly unorthodox meeting , as two outsiders , neither of whom were bound by the Privy Counsellor 's oath of confidentiality , were in attendance : ‘ Chaired by Mrs Thatcher , [ the meeting ] was attended , unusually , for part of the time , by two outsiders : Sir John Cuckney , Westland 's chairman … and Mr Marcus Agius , a director of Lazard 's , Westland 's financial advisers . ’ |
| 7 | The key worker should be on hand for part of the time to settle in the new resident . |
| 8 | He was on the run for forty-three days , sheltering for part of the time in a cornfield , being fed occasionally by sympathetic French farmers , but was hunted down and sent to captivity in Belgium . |
| 9 | In Joan Halton 's attempt to be more whole , she needed to know more about her desire to come first , at least for part of the time , rather than always maintaining the veneer of premature maturity she had felt forced into adopting as a child . |
| 10 | Yet his real home for part of the time he was Marje 's lover was with Meli Meitner in her Kensington apartment . |
| 11 | A red semi-regular variable in the Great Bear , with a range from 6.8 to 9.1 and a rough period of 198 days ; for part of the time it is an easy binocular object . |
| 12 | provided the pupil is mainly taught programme of study material within the range of levels appropriate to his or her key stage , schools may teach the pupil for part of the time at a level falling outside the key stage … |
| 13 | As far as Comfort knew , they had returned to the States for the duration , although in fact they had been in London for part of the time , working for the Free French , and back in France for most of the rest . |
| 14 | Initial training courses for secondary school teachers frequently consisted of methods or subject studies , for part of the time , and formal work in each of the four ‘ foundation disciplines ’ for the rest . |
| 15 | Because Mr. Thorpe resides for part of the time in London , he decided to try another Health Authority . |
| 16 | I have so far had 4 people interested in travelling from the UK , and another 3 who would like to join us for part of the time in NZ . |
| 17 | Brighton caused controversy by proposing to teach full-time and sandwich students together for part of the time . |
| 18 | Targets for M3 were an important part of monetary policy from 1976 to 1985 , and for part of the time other broader measures ( similar to the modern definition of M5 ) were targeted . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | and then he kept , he was on , will you come and work for me will you come , I was working for Holmes at the time |
| 21 | Thank you erm well that was a very interesting introduction usual political statements there are many of interest to this County Council and its services , erm their worth repeating as part of the time just to add to the with the labour party er for us prices . |
| 22 | It should therefore be emphasized that the first objective within the UGIX project is to improve access to existing GlS by converting the current function-orientation of the native system interface to a task-oriented interface usable by a spatially aware user ( see Fig. 7.2 for a taxonomy of interfaces for ARC/INFO at the time of writing in 1990 ) . |
| 23 | This order is consistent with the established relationships between subjects at the time that the scheme was first published ( 1876 ) , but produces some strange collocations for today 's literature . |
| 24 | This time the four definitive gricers ' bibles of the time come in one small , hardbacked ( and thus very easily pocketed ) volume with many pictures and full shed lists ( complete with the names of Loco Superintendents and Chief Mechanical Engineers ? ) which would have been important information for spotters of the time . |
| 25 | He was lost for words at the time , and had to apologise and thank the donors later in private . |
| 26 | Our young Tominah friend had disappeared by sunset , and it was well after dark by the time Abu returned , together with Ranteallo , jerking about in the front seat like a clownish version of his own Tau-Tau . |
| 27 | It was after midnight by the time he was able to continue his journey . |
| 28 | It was after noon by the time we actually got sorted , much to the annoyance of the lady from the Public Relations company who had hired us . |
| 29 | pH >7 was used to define abnormal alkalinity in the oesophagus because in normal volunteers the pH of the oesophagus is between 4 and 7 for 96% of the time . |
| 30 | Sixteen students were not looking for work at the time of the survey . |