Example sentences of "[prep] the time [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It achieved cult status throughout the world when Steven Spielberg used one of the cars as the time machine in his ‘ Back to the Future ’ film trilogy . |
| 2 | Here is known as the retardation time and is a measure of the time delay in the strain after imposition of the stress . |
| 3 | In many cases it is extremely difficult to carry out tests under truly controlled conditions , because the external conditions are changing throughout the time period in question . |
| 4 | We have to escape from the time warp in which , unfortunately , some people are still caught after three election defeats in a row . ’ |
| 5 | He stole the show and became the epitome of the American anti-hero , the spit-in-your-eye champion of counter-culture whose irreverence captivated and finally liberated his audiences from the time warp in which they had been trapped since Montgomery Clift , Marlon Brando and James Dean began it in a rather less volatile manner in the early Fifties . |
| 6 | In that case there had been a failure to make an application to appoint an independent surveyor within the time limit in the lease . |
| 7 | Er well I was in the time office in the first place , the men used to er cl check in , they used to bring the checks you see ? brass checks , numbered . |
| 8 | This lag is due to the time lag in the seasonal increase in total radiation , as also pointed out in reports of spring blooms in areas from Lofoten and southwards . |
| 9 | Metre is a perceived regular pulse ( analogous to the time signature in music ) . |
| 10 | Museums also helped to focus attention on the time dimension in natural history by displaying spectacular collections of fossils . |
| 11 | The daring magnitude of this conception has since been obscured by its almost routine enactment in a series of African countries in the 1960s , but it should never be forgotten that India was the test case , and that at the time success in the execution of such a plan seemed far from assured : only a year before Mountbatten 's appointment the then viceroy , Lord Wavell , had been pressing on the Cabinet his ‘ Breakdown Plan ’ , which consisted simply of the phased evacuation of the British from India without any serious attempt to ensure that a viable , much less friendly , government was installed in their place . |
| 12 | Many of the delegates were later to become officers , and although Eva did not realise it at the time people in high places were again taking note of her presence . |