Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] the time " in BNC.

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1 I was just a bit stoned at the time and it all poured out … .
2 It was held that there had been no breach of the condition as to title because that condition related to the time of the sale .
3 While the grave concern about the prevalence of crime noted by The Times was often articulated , it was not yet politicized .
4 ‘ Werner Keitel was an Abwehr agent employed at the time to select deep cover agents .
5 Compared with a supplemental dose of OPV , one dose of IPV administered at the time of measles vaccination at 6 or 9 months of age induced significantly higher seroconversion to one or more serotypes at the time of vaccination .
6 Later came the Farmans , aptly named ‘ cages à poules ’ , and the Caudrons , of which a French flyer remarked at the time that between these and the current German types ‘ there was all the difference between a lorry and a Rolls Royce ’ .
7 How we get all work done in the time ? …
8 Where an officer of government in the exercise of his office obtains payment of moneys as and for a charge which the law enables him to demand and enforce , such moneys may be recovered back from him if it should afterwards turn out that they were not legally payable even though no protest was made or question raised at the time of payment .
9 The position remained substantially the same as that described by Raymond Williams at the time of the earlier confrontation : " The consensus on which the English faculty did its best work ended about the time of Leavis 's retirement and new consensus has yet to be worked out . "
10 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 .
11 But this attitude changed from the time of Alexander the Great ( 336–323BC ) ( fig. 14 ) .
12 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 .
13 Michael made a good recovery , and was well enough to enjoy the international conference given at the time of his retirement .
14 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 . ’
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 In slang used at the time , to open your budget meant to speak your mind .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 The writ was issued two years ago following remarks made by the then BBC Cricket Correspondent during a BBC World Service broadcast at the time of the Fourth Test between England and the West Indies .
22 In the case considered the motion is transverse to OA , and so the curvature is that of the geodesic surface defined by the time direction and the spatial direction transverse to OA .
23 Traditional options are contracts written by stock exchange market makers entitling their clients to buy or sell quoted shares in some stock in the future at a price fixed at the time the option contract is purchased .
24 A news sequence made at the time of the invasion of Suez in 1956 may present gripping pictures , but is likely to say what the audience of the day wants to hear .
25 Civil War A Royal Armouries Exhibition sponsored by THE TIMES
26 This was the argument voiced by The Times on 8 October : ‘ The working of parliamentary institutions , of democratic responsibility , and of constitutional practice , demands it . ’
27 As a Scottish paper remarked at the time , it was not his first dismissal , ‘ Bremner has had more early baths than a miner on night-shift . ’
28 Two days later a new political movement was formed joining the defunct PSU and the Nouvelle Gauche ( a dissident communist movement established at the time of the 1988 presidential elections and led by Pierre Juquin — see p. 35979 for his candidature ) .
29 The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was a slickly-packaged Indian guru with a message tailored to the times .
30 If that is what it turned out to be , it is certainly not what those most concerned to secure or prevent the passage of the Bill thought at the time .
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