Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] time [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she had devised a hook for time with Lucy . |
| 2 | For example , it will be insufficient to have merely a single deictic index for time of utterance , yet how many time indices we need seems to depend on the utterance itself : ( 100 ) Do n't shoot now , but now , now and now ! |
| 3 | In contrast to peoples who believe that their communities have existence through time through rules of corporation , the Piaroa do not understand ‘ community ’ and the relationships of which it is comprised as a political given that allows for continuity through time . |
| 4 | As we have seen , the Conservative Party made much , prior to the ‘ 79 General Election , of the increase in crime during time in office of the 1974–79 Labour Government . |
| 5 | In place of Aristotle 's association of time with motion and his appeal to the uniform daily revolution of the heavens as its basis , St Augustine turned , not as Plotinus had done to the concept of the ‘ world-soul ’ , but to the human mind for the ultimate source and standard of time . |
| 6 | When Calder-Marshall and Malcolm Lowry first met it was the latter who felt flattered , but though Calder-Marshall was a generous friend , there is something poignant in Gordon Bowker 's comment in Malcolm Lowry Remembered that he has ‘ given a great deal of time to writing and speaking about him ’ . |
| 7 | Soon this mood of despair evaporated under the influence of serene letters from Helen , who flourished among the intimate circle of artistic Bohemian young people — including the poet Charles Dalmon and the actor Franklin Dyall — who lived in Hammersmith and spent a great deal of time at Mrs Logan 's large house which had been furnished and decorated in William Morris style . |
| 8 | The secondary school to which they went on would then have an accurate record of what they could do , and could save a great deal of time at present wasted in the transition from one school to another . |
| 9 | ‘ I can hardly be expected to have a great deal of time for gardening , ’ she said , ‘ I am forced to pay out money for gardening help . ’ |
| 10 | The latter was more likely ; he did not seem to have a great deal of time for God . |
| 11 | I spent a great deal of time with housemasters ( see Chapter 22 ) and hence I became interested in the kinds of problems they encountered and began to follow-up the children I saw regularly in their offices . |
| 12 | Both the Lord Lieutenant and the Chief Secretary were politicians and had to spend a good deal of time in London attending Cabinet and Parliament ; therefore the Under-Secretary , who was a Civil Servant , was the effective head of British Administration in Ireland for most of every year . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're spending a good deal of time in New York now , Mark . |
| 14 | My wife and I were very happy ; we had a house outside the town , though I had to spend a great deal of time in Berlin . |
| 15 | Added to this of course , was loss of time for repairs . |
| 16 | A programme of teaching is required , taking place outside the diabetic clinic at times convenient to the patients , avoiding loss of time from school and work . |
| 17 | We think , on principle , that an action does not lie for a compensation to a witness for loss of time in attendance under a subpoena . |
| 18 | : the study of time in relation to the history of the Earth . |
| 19 | Separating the effect of age from the effect of time of birth on the strength of the relation between birth weight and blood pressure is thus difficult . |
| 20 | So we can just , if we have look now at the effect of time on output to supply diagram , okay , in the short run supply will be very ine inelastic . |
| 21 | Desperate to halt the march of time on face and figure , Streep is directed to a large Gothic mansion where mysterious Lisle Von Rhuman ( Isabella Rossellini in large gilt choker and very little else ) sells her the Elixir of Eternal Youth . |
| 22 | THE MARCH of time in Ulster has transformed the British soldier , as these pictures reveal . |
| 23 | KEVIN Keegan has lodged a substantial bid for an unnamed player but wo n't tie up the deal in time for Saturday 's home game with Brighton . |
| 24 | One of Stirling 's problems was that he was not content to let others do the raiding from time to time , though he had proved his own courage and nobody would have thought the worse of him had he decided to concentrate on sorting out the many administrative problems that beset L Detachment . |
| 25 | McNab is expected to recover from a stomach bug in time for Wednesday 's game in Italy and with fellow midfielder Dave Martindale shaking off ‘ flu , Rovers ’ squad is beginning to bulge . |
| 26 | " It is n't , after all , as though we had any reason for not having them , because now that Amelia and Magnus and Gabriel are all married there 's plenty of room , and my parents are anyway worried , politically speaking if you know what I mean , about having so much empty house ( though he 's hardly the kind of tenant that that kind of consideration would provide ) , and he even pays some rent from time to time . |
| 27 | Clean out the feeding compartment from time to time . |
| 28 | All these uneasy feelings that were at the back of her mind from time to time . |
| 29 | Only poor Webb , still in plaster but determined to be back in the side in time for Italy , can feel discouraged by the way he brought it off . |
| 30 | Installation of the handrail will increase the safety for Health Physics staff carrying out surveys and for maintenance staff who have to work on the roof from time to time . |