Example sentences of "[noun sg] to the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wonderfully intense , concentrated in feeling , this performance brings one closer than almost any rival to the awesome times which gave birth to this extraordinary work . |
| 2 | So its recorded history progresses without a break to the present time , mainly as a culinary herb , but also having some medicinal value , as well as cosmetic and domestic use . |
| 3 | The assessment of the acid clearance time could be a useful alternative to the more time consuming and uncomfortable overnight evaluation of pH . |
| 4 | For Jenkins , who ousted Stephens last season only to lose his job through suspension and injury this winter , it will be a return to the big time after only one game in the past month . |
| 5 | And he is still expected to step up his ambitious attempt to land QPR striker Les Ferdinand and complete his plans for a return to the big time . |
| 6 | Don King is looking for a return to the big time with Tucker , who will be a tough opponent . |
| 7 | But such is his love for the game he has adorned for close on a decade that he never gave up hope of a return to the big time . |
| 8 | If you can translate the act to the big time of global rock ‘ n' roll there 's the chance of a lifelong career but it 's a deceptively hard trick to pull off . |
| 9 | Advice on time-zone transitions depends very much upon the kind of journey being made , so we consider the following possibilities : • A flight crossing only a few ( one or two ) time zones ; • A flight crossing several time zones , ( to the west or east ) and when the stop-over , before returning home , is short ; • A flight crossing several time zones to the west where there is sufficient time and need for adjustment to the new time zone ; • A flight as in the last example , but to the east . |
| 10 | The extent of their happiness as they read and wrote , and walked the Dorset lanes , was in proportion to the unsettled times they had often known until then . |
| 11 | Beryl Smith again drew attention to the strenuous time our trainers have , called upon as they are to travel so far and having to tackle what seems to be a non-stop training programme . |
| 12 | If your stay is longer , then you can attempt to promote adjustment of your body to the new time zone . |
| 13 | Can you begin to adjust your life-style to the new time zone in the days immediately before departure ? |
| 14 | Albanian historians believe that the modern Albanians developed from the ancient Illyrians and that there is a continuity of Illyrian settlement in their country from the Bronze Age to the present time . |
| 15 | Similarly if his host says ‘ Come early ’ , having just invited him for eight o'clock , he will interpret ‘ early ’ with respect to the last-mentioned time , rather than to some previously mentioned time . |
| 16 | chasing back to the local paper to the approximate time that we think they died see if they report enough about them . |
| 17 | Such confrontation could so interrupt the subconscious flow that he would , in fact , be brought back with a jolt to the present time and would be unable to continue with the regression at all . |
| 18 | All these contributions and more , in addition to the required time , must be forthcoming if the committees and interfaces are in fact to produce the close coupling and co-ordinated collaboration these firms need . |
| 19 | In contrast to the last time she had spoken to him , his mood seem positively sunny . |
| 20 | IBM Corp is expected to announce today that it is switching to what it calls value-based pricing for mainframe software , charging on either a per-user or elapsed time used basis ; the company issued a cryptic statement in response to the Financial Times story alleging that Louis Gerstner had put the break-up of IBM on hold , saying that Gerstner had not said such a thing for public consumption and that he had no plans to do so . |
| 21 | Thousands of newspaper and periodical articles are indexed in Research Index ; Index to the Financial Times covers the FT from 1981 on . |
| 22 | Every Sunday I also contributed a religious meditation to the New Times of Burma under the heading ‘ Thought for Today ’ , following on a Buddhist meditation for the preceding day . |
| 23 | But whereas before he had seen Scouting as a gateway of opportunity to the big time , 20 years on , the movement seemed narrow and provincial somehow , more concerned with preserving an America that was fast slipping away , if it had ever truly existed , than with helping to shape the country 's youth to face an uncertain future . |
| 24 | On balance , we would probably recommend the ABN in preference to the Financial Times . |
| 25 | Before deciding on a particular course , it is worthwhile giving a little thought to the best time to go and the subjects which the counselling should cover . |
| 26 | When sequences are similar the team will indicate their preferences so a rough cut can be made by the editor , who joins all the desired sequences together and cuts the whole thing to the exact time . |
| 27 | Yeah two obviously we , we , we we do need to , to clarify before the end of this week is , one is in relation to the paid time off a and two is the accessibility stroke suitability of the particular venue . |
| 28 | Well , er very good but erm last year I was very disappointed I did n't get invite , an invite to the old time musical which is most unusual , it 's the first time I 've ever been missed out , but I do n't know how it happened , our warden did n't have any of us invited , so I do n't know how it happened |
| 29 | As Institute president Ian Plaistowe said very wisely in his letter to the Financial Times , we should work towards recording similar events in similar ways ; my point was simply that we do not want to record different things in similar ways , and that is where judgment will come in : for example , some securitisations are valid , others not . |
| 30 | John Barnsley , director of tax services at Price Waterhouse , argued in a recent letter to the Financial Times that ‘ the tendency of the ACT system to encourage profitable investment in the UK rather than overseas might be seen as helpful , with the UK in recession and 3m unemployed ’ . |