Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been better , a long time ago it had been better , when their loving had made Frank , and better up to the time of Adam 's birth . |
| 2 | Some nectar-eating ants cut down on the time they spend searching for food by using their body clock to alert them to mealtimes . |
| 3 | Consultants say most children with cancer have a good chance of recovery , but this new service , costing £750,000 a year , aims to improve treatment and research and cut down on the time spent on the ward . |
| 4 | If you are having a mains garden lighting circuit installed , it makes sense to have power points suitable for power tools such as mowers and hedge trimmers put in at the time . |
| 5 | The company memory of the late launch of a profitable product will convey more merit than the prompt launch of a failure , whatever the arguments put up at the time . |
| 6 | The Anglo Scotia lace factory was built around 1870 — a Gothic four-storey building of extravagant design for such a purpose , with castellated turrets and parapet recalling some of the fortress-like factories put up around the time of the Luddite riots . |
| 7 | I think that the hon. Gentleman will know what I mean when I say that in the context of coming towards the end of a particular available time , whether it is the time for talks or the time for a general election , there is reluctance among certain parties — and I make this remark generally — to turn their cards face upwards if there is any danger that other people will not have turned their cards face upwards by the time the whistle blows . |
| 8 | it would normally , if I recall correctly at the time , there would normally been a memorandum listing new charges for each development |
| 9 | ‘ The work of the diocese will go on and we look forward to the time when he can be back with us and working amongst us again . ’ |
| 10 | Look forward to the time when you rocking horse is all finished and you will be able to stand back and watch your children or grandchildren happily riding this beautiful heirloom that you have created , and you will be able to say with pride and satisfaction , ‘ I made that . ’ |
| 11 | Form the moment they wake up until the time they go to bed , whether they are playing with friends or at school , their minds and bodies are always active . |
| 12 | I set out at the time the details of the areas where we would see new and better facilities reopening , and those better facilities have reopened . |
| 13 | Peer back to the time of William the Conqueror who gave the Isle of Holderness to a knight ‘ well tried in feats of arms ’ , Drogo de Bevere . |
| 14 | Sometimes it 's free ( or , to put it another way , you pay only for the time you access the system ) , at other times you pay per ‘ page ’ of information you read . |
| 15 | There are few children who do not experience the death of a much-loved grandparent or pet when they are quite young , and yet so often they are excluded from all the changes that go on at the time of a grandparent 's death , as though in some way this will leave them unaffected . |
| 16 | Such patients often differ only in the time taken to reach hospital , and to claim that they differ in any more fundamental way is pure sophistry . |
| 17 | Humans are not the only animals to display the habit known as pair-bonding — the practice whereby parents stay together throughout the time that their offspring require to attain adulthood . |
| 18 | If hon. Members who are called before 7 o'clock keep broadly to the time limit , it may be possible , in the interests of the whole House , for the occupant of the Chair to relax that limit later in the debate . |
| 19 | If you go back to the time United Biscuits felt they had to close their Liverpool factory , the bishops up in Liverpool marched on Hector Laing and tried to persuade him to put the decision off . |
| 20 | The Australian Aborigines make a clear distinction between the works of art they consider their own and those they claim go back to the time of their creation , popularly referred to as the Dreamtime in all literature about Aborigines . |
| 21 | Grievances against the federal Government of the republic of India go back to the time of independence , when many Sikhs felt that Nehru and his Congress party reneged on solemn undertakings . |
| 22 | By this means , a student who suffers badly from " exam nerves ' may benefit from having obtained good essay or project marks ; conversely , students who dislike preparing written work on their own but who respond well under the time pressure of an " unseen " exam may also do well . |
| 23 | If you wish to apply for such a pass , please do so at the time or order , giving the following details and indicate whether or not your order is dependent on the allocation of a Vehicle Pass : Date required , Vehicle registration number , Vehicle type , Drivers ’ name or organisation , Number of persons with disabilities and total number of passengers . |
| 24 | We live back in the time of fairy tales . |
| 25 | Think back to the time before you were you . |
| 26 | And you know , for you and I , so often , imagine , think back to the time when you did not know Jesus Christ how easy it was to blame God for this and for that , if there 's a God of love in heaven why does n't he do something about it ? |
| 27 | If I could also ask those of you who have n't decided on a confirmation name , I think really by the time we meet again you should . |
| 28 | But there were perfectly good ways of preserving food without refrigeration , which were followed even more diligently than we do nowadays in the time of the deep freeze . |
| 29 | That 's what I says to her , like on Friday when you come in by the time we 've got yo got you summat to eat and a bath and your petrol and everything ready for the next week filled your car up , that we could call in then but like if we have Saturday night you can either go to bed , sleep on floor or do virtually what you want cos you do n't have to go on Sunday if you do n't want . |
| 30 | In the meantime , you can continue to do hand work in the quiet moments and these serve also as the time to embellish your quickly-made basic garments . |