Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 I had to make up for the ravages of time .
2 One had a recurrence of an old back injury involving a disc which bulged from between the vertebrae from time to time , causing intense pain , and the other was a young secretary with period pains .
3 Moreover , the findings challenge conventional assumptions about the amounts of time the different subjects should be allocated .
4 We went on to talk about the articles in Time and Tide that had so provoked Rebecca West , and Father D'Arcy observed how , in dealing with ‘ difficult ’ correspondents , it was important to strike the right note in replying .
5 Similarly , our analysis of how time was used across the curriculum provoked further challenges to conventional assumptions : that the way to do a subject justice is to give it more time ; and that ‘ balance ’ is about the proportions of time given to the various subjects .
6 It will break through the limitations of time and space .
7 They 'd put a terrible strain on the council : if they all wakened up , right down through the layers of time , there 'd be cavemen mouthing mindless questions in the barren , gameless desert of streets and traffic , and it would be the end of the world .
8 But , in an uncanny moment of premonition , I am able to see through the mists of time to Judgement Day .
9 Walking through the ancient forest of Wychwood , EV Thompson steps back through the mists of time .
10 Take a seat aboard a flying desk and spiral backwards through the corridors of time on an exciting journey of discovery ; the story of Oxford University is uncovered to reveal its remarkable impact on Western civilisation .
11 Tranmere striker Tommy Coyne has been sidelined by a flu bug , but Charlton remains optimistic that he can shrug off the effects in time for Wednesday .
12 These consists of the periods of time between the abdication of the king in 1931 and November 1933 , between November 1933 and the election of the Popular Front in 1936 , and from February 1936 to the outbreak of the Civil War in July 1936 .
13 First we have no intuitive grasp of the immensities of time available for evolutionary change .
14 It is a matter of deep regret that the Department of Social Security failed to provide copies of the instruments in time for the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments to consider them and report to the House .
15 Lead-isotope data suggest that the lead in galena was supplied from progressively higher levels of the basins through time .
16 There was , however , sufficient overlap between his illustrative and painted work for one to fertilise the other ; many of the drawings for Time Was Away afterwards provided the basis for paintings .
17 All the proposed solutions to the problem of defining a measure of the benefits per time period from owning a futures contract are open to objections .
18 In spite of the distances of time and culture , we also discover that we can learn from the great men and women of faith who lived before us .
19 One regular cross-examiner , Francis Stoner , compared taking part in the inquiry to clambering aboard a ‘ sanitized juggernaut , where there is a suspension of the laws of time , a vortex which can drain energy from people ’ .
20 Funding of the exports from time of shipment by way of advances against shipping documents with possible non payment insurance built in .
21 And , even if they are an adequate summary of the externals of time and chance to which all are subject , what about the inner life ?
22 Saturation occurs when the TL signal no longer increases significantly with the addition of further radiation ; this is due to the filling of the traps with time .
23 Because of the demands on time many part-time farmers were over-capitalised in machinery .
24 Indeed , a striking quality of the sonnets against time is their less personal quality .
25 Before initiating an incident , you weighed up the pros and cons of the costs in time .
26 As Karen 's lust for certainty increased , she threw in tantalising little snippets , altering some of the details from time to time .
27 One in particular strongly reinforced this strong sense of the essential unity of the whole body of believers , despite the accidents of time — the celebration of the feast of Corpus Christi .
28 Unlike the demands for time off from the farm , which is normally at short notice , the request for release for training courses could be made well in advance .
29 The problem was not absolutely insoluble : Milton , after all , had managed to begin his epic very near the beginnings of time , in Paradise Lost .
30 The root of the East German church 's involvement lies in the agonising sense of guilt and self-accusation among many clergy during and after the Second World War for not having spoken out against the Nazis in time .
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