Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as the introduction of spinning and weaving machines at the time of the Industrial Revolution in Britain destroyed craft jobs and created fragmented tasks which were performed by unskilled workers , will the new technology also be used to de-skill work ? |
| 2 | IMC employees — risk analysts and financial assessors like clones in their sharp plastic business suits and laced necklines — moved busily from one station to another , checking systems as the time for launch approached . |
| 3 | Certain institutions carried the same message : lineage welfare payments , for instance , and the solemnities of threatening vengeance and exacting a settlement , were adat ( customary ) , the way we have always done things , living reminders of a time when ‘ we did everything in this way ’ . |
| 4 | The purpose of the writer 's research ( Tweddell , 1988 ) was to examine practices in arts INSET for serving teachers at a time when the government 's intention to develop a coherent programme of INSET through GRIST was being initiated ( at Easter ) 1987 and to find out how the arts were faring in an educational climate which many observers were declaring inimical to the arts . |
| 5 | The RFU should also take the overdue step of encouraging the development of the game in state schools by paying teachers for the time they spend coaching . |
| 6 | Kim Philby had been a war correspondent in Salamanca , sending dispatches to The Times . |
| 7 | He 's a fine man , your dad , they 're well matched , " It 's great it happened , " the woman in the shop said , buying leeks at the time . |
| 8 | A bus has been turned into a mobile information centre , giving details of the times of services and other facilities provided . |
| 9 | This was , again as in the past , a genuine form of public entertainment ; printed programmes giving details of the time and place of the entry and of the carriages and costumes were sometimes sold to potential spectators . |
| 10 | Building this genetic algorithm for code-breaking has certainly left me in no doubt that evolution is quite capable of performing miracles in no time at all . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I began playing guitar professionally when I was about 15 or 16 years old , and was recording albums by the time I was 17 . |
| 12 | While most students not in receipt of a job offer were making applications and attending interviews at the time they completed the Initial destinations questionnaires , the fact that one third of students would be looking for employment at the end of the courses can only be regarded as a disappointing , and rather unexpected , finding . |
| 13 | Grant applications have to be made to the EC , the Rural Development Commission and the Department of the Environment , with approvals taking months at a time when speed is of the essence . |
| 14 | By the use of this technique , it will be possible to gain precise information about the nature of reading difficulties at the time of comprehension rather than relying on inferences made from memory performance . |
| 15 | I can only really remember one occasion when my husband knew that I was I was taking Pills at the time , I think I took about twenty eight in one night . |
| 16 | When will he get together with the Secretary of State for the Environment to put an end to the nonsense of capping , which is squeezing resources at a time of rapidly rising crime ? |
| 17 | Sharon 's boyfriend Matthew Stanton , 21 , was walking with her just behind the happy , giggling girls at the time of the accident early on Saturday evening . |
| 18 | If patients are receiving sulphonylureas at the time of admission there is no contraindication to their continuation , although one should be wary of the very long-acting chlorpropamide as hypoglycaemia is more likely . |
| 19 | Conversely slightly more of the action sample were receiving meals-on-wheels by the time of the second assessment but this is probably because more of the control sample were out receiving day care and therefore were less likely to require them . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , declining confidence in the pound , and perhaps in the ‘ Thatcher Revolution , ’ is severely constraining ministers at a time when — as a formidable faction in the Cabinet has recognised — the Government needs to give a higher priority to the quality of life if it is not to be swept aside in the 1990s . |
| 21 | No sense in bearing grudges at a time like this . ’ |
| 22 | Those convening conferences should facilitate the attendance of parents and children by : ( i ) arranging conferences at a time convenient to parents and children as well as the professionals involved ; ( ii ) ensuring that the family are prepared for the conference by the professional worker best known to them ; ( iii ) arranging for them to meet the chair in advance ; ( iv ) ensuring that the family are briefed in advance on the issues to be raised so that they can seek advice and prepare what they have to say ; ( v ) limiting numbers to those who really need to attend ( para 6.23 ) . |