Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] time and " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , aspects of the time and place of the discourse in ( 5 ) are important because they have a bearing on what the speaker says in the fragment ( forty years after the described event took place , but still in Stornoway ) . |
| 2 | They were constrained by s I mean like what they wanted to do was constrained by the practical sort of necessities of the time and even if they had wanted to have a more vigorous policy of land reform |
| 3 | Their very excellence makes heavy demands on the time and energy of their teaching faculty , so people who stay long in such places rarely produce the books and articles commonly published by their counterparts in bigger universities , and are therefore often little known outside their own institutions . |
| 4 | The capacity rules are just part of a now long list of rules and regulations that surround university life , and make extra demands on the time and freedom of academics . |
| 5 | Then someone she did like , Mr. Middlemass , the Document Examiner , with his jacket slung over his shoulders , leaping up the stairs three steps at a time and calling out a greeting to the desk . |
| 6 | With these restrictions , anaphor resolution will consist of an alternation in which the focus process suggests one or more candidates at a time and the reasoner evaluates them , deciding whether they are plausible and , if there is more than one , which is the best . |
| 7 | You 're going up two squares at a time and you 're going one two three and it 's usually when you get to around where I tend to do it is erm sort of eight and ten . |
| 8 | Heat two tablespoons of oil in a frying pan ; fry four or five burgers at a time and cook for 2–3 minutes on each side until well done . |
| 9 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 10 | the only battleship I know about is the girl friend go away for about three months at a time and you 'd say of where 's Norman , oh he 's er working and then we all knew he 's working for a he 'd put them in the computer systems right the way throughout the ships |
| 11 | It is a tribute to EMI engineers of the time and their faithful successors today that this and the even earlier ( 1937 ) version of Sibelius 's Fourth Symphony come up sounding so truthful ( CDM7 64027 2 ) . |
| 12 | And , as to institutional extensions , the culminating sentences of the Introduction propose appropriate measures of action : " The enrolment of a fraternity of itinerant preachers on English literature … would be a step in accord with other movements of the time and with our national tradition of unpaid public service " . |
| 13 | I was still living with my parents at the time and I 'd not long passed my driving test — with Bernie 's assistance — so I borrowed my old man 's Austin Cambridge one Sunday morning and drove over to Nick 's . |
| 14 | You were allowed up to three visitors at a time and had to sit opposite them at individual tables . |
| 15 | Shocked granny Vera said last night : ‘ I was washing up cups at the time and he told me he did n't agree with what I was doing . |
| 16 | Perez says he is well aware that expert systems have n't lived up to the promises and claims that were being made for the technology three or four years ago , but claims Neuron Data was well aware of its limitations at the time and was already busy putting Open Interface together . |
| 17 | Conversely had we had the profits last year which would have generated taxable profits then we would n't have needed to have done that , so that 's one reason why it was not disclosed on floatations at the time and floatation was not regarded as an asset . |
| 18 | We thanked the WO officials for the time and trouble they had taken to discuss all these issues with us . |
| 19 | ‘ The rallies were a spontaneous reaction to the troubles of the time and it was the first time there had been any movement like it in Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | What happens is , as the R N A strand goes through the the genetic code is read out three bases at a time and this is a , is a table which reproduces all the three base combinations you can have , and shows you which amino acids they code for . |
| 21 | He was staying up for four or five days at a time and then crashing for four or five days . |
| 22 | In Dynmouth the antiquated and inadequately heated Essoldo showed the same film for seven days at a time and the shops were totally uninteresting . |
| 23 | It felt an ordinary place , but my father 's friend , Billy Llewelyn , could play the saw , grow black carnations , go without sleep for three weeks at a time and expand his chest from thirty-six inches to fifty-two inches in three breaths . |
| 24 | Seeing the cramped , coffin-like quarters in which fifty men had to live , eat , sleep and fight , often in appalling weather for up to six weeks at a time and knowing how marginal were their chances of survival , I could n't help but admire the resolution that had kept them fighting , their morale undimmed , until the very end . |
| 25 | He was away for weeks at a time and would return laden with gigots of Algerian lamb , jars of oil , sacks of pulses ; Madame ran the propriété , which was large , and not labour-intensive ( words that entered Frederica 's vocabulary ca. 1960 ) . |
| 26 | I could describe the run I took down our drive later that night , key in hand ; the nature of my flight upstairs , twelve skips at a time and the sight of my mother's-help , helping this particular mother to find her pretty Victorian loo with a tight black sheath dress covering her head — but I wo n't . |
| 27 | Because of the difficulty of assessing software before purchase i.e. the lack of objective reviews at the time and the fact that no " on approval " facilities were available , several bad purchases were made when software was first acquired . |
| 28 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 29 | His lively personality won him many well-wishers at the time and those fans did n't forget him on his birthday . |
| 30 | They were known to our predecessors at the time and were expounded by them as clearly then as we can demonstrate them now ; for the reasons were implicit in the facts of the world in 1900 . |