Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 31 | I think there should be a more stringent system of entry into the drama schools so that there is a higher standard of work achieved by the time they come to join the profession . |
| 32 | But this attitude changed from the time of Alexander the Great ( 336–323BC ) ( fig. 14 ) . |
| 33 | In the same way , he might have looked at the conflicts between institutions , genres and styles during the 1890–1930 period ( for instance , between old-fashioned vaudeville and new syncopated styles ; or between the requirements of public dance and private listening ) , rather than just the more homogeneous synthesis established by the time it ended . |
| 34 | Michael made a good recovery , and was well enough to enjoy the international conference given at the time of his retirement . |
| 35 | The responses could be analysed for differences in opinion depending on the time since the respondent had suffered from the illness or between those who had ever and those who had never suffered from the illness in question . |
| 36 | He states : ‘ What Hale is saying is that for the purpose of the law of rape the consent given at the time of the marriage ceremony can not in law be revoked . ’ |
| 37 | The difference lies in the time the animal spends resting between meals ( Bayne and Scullard , 1978 ) . |
| 38 | The first two are necessarily variables , in that their meaning depends on the time and circumstance in which they are used ; ‘ style ’ , however , can be defined as possessing a constant and specific property . |
| 39 | Yet , however serious the crisis seemed at the time , and for all the interest which it has subsequently generated , it was essentially a passing thunderstorm . |
| 40 | When contemplating the history of the palazzo you have to wonder whether there might not have been some truth in an ancient prophecy made at the time when Alessi began work on the building . |
| 41 | Evidently , in response to a suitable input triggering pulse , a monostable multivibrator creates a rectangular output pulse of amplitude and duration related to the time constant RC . |
| 42 | FIFA president Joao Havelange and general secretary Sepp Blatter were holding a crisis meeting at the time with UEFA officials and French federation president Jean Fournet-Fayard , who had been urgently summoned to Zurich . |
| 43 | In slang used at the time , to open your budget meant to speak your mind . |
| 44 | I want this whole this place tidied by the time I get back please ? |
| 45 | It was thought that a similar equation would govern the proton , which was the only other particle known at the time , and that would be the end of theoretical physics . |
| 46 | This rule now removes the doubt that often existed about the duration of a notice , when the period started at the time of submission to the council . |
| 47 | Q : What were you and your husband doing at the time ? |
| 48 | Gist of this intelligence ( with , of course , the utmost care to protect its source ) must have been conveyed to all regional commands in the United Kingdom , and from there filtered downward , for this moment coincided with the time when Leslie declared his willingness to perform almost any task in order to help repel invaders . |
| 49 | Two days after the debate , on 6th August , 1859 , a leader appeared in The Times which not only questioned Scott 's suitability for the appointment , but also the new attitude of the professional architect towards his client . |
| 50 | Shigeru Tokinoya , who was in charge of textbook screening at the time Professor Ienaga 's book was banned , said : ‘ All of our corrections should have been upheld … |
| 51 | Will the rain come at the time the crops need it ? |
| 52 | What is certain is that the two parts of the community continued to the time of Lanfranc 's death and beyond to face each other with unconcealed hostility . |
| 53 | The digesta version , contrary to its usual practice , seems to have struck out more unnecessary detail than the responsa , such as the lengthy description of the debts and the circumlocution referring to the time the will was made . |
| 54 | The judgment in this case , Cresswell and others v Board of Inland Revenue ( 1984 ) , contained robust comment on the need to move with the times : |
| 55 | Sterling said at the time , ‘ In my opinion , no one has yet caught the real spirit of Alice on the screen . |
| 56 | One source was a body working at the time of the publication of Barlow , in association with the National Council of Social Science : the Hygiene Committee of the Women 's Group on Public Welfare which met between 1939 and 1942 . |
| 57 | In so far as they have a derivation , it is from the post of Senior Teacher established at the time of the Houghton Review - but seniority , per se , is not a management function . |
| 58 | Although the two never met , they both forged a figurative style out of the Abstract Expressionism raging all about them — not the most popular move to make at the time . |
| 59 | The date of the coronation — an event regarded at the time as a rushed and shabby affair — has inspired comment , for it was the 13th , the thirtieth anniversary of the battle of Flodden . |
| 60 | There was a lot of evidence accumulating at the time about lateralization of function in bird brains — for instance , it appears that chicks respond behaviourally in different ways when they view things with left and right eyes , while in song birds like canaries and zebra finches , the ‘ song centre ’ is located in a left-hemisphere region , rather close to our IMHV . |