Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was little understanding at the time of how much work was required to develop high-quality screenplays . |
| 2 | At the same time two of the nine popularly elected representatives , Akilisi Pohive ( leader of the dissident pro-democracy movement ) and Viliami Fukofuka , were each reported by the Times of Tonga to have returned about 12,000 pa'anga to the Treasury on the grounds that overtime payment for members of the Assembly was immoral and increased the financial burden on the people . |
| 3 | All of this adds to the time involved in the process and certainly adds to the fees . |
| 4 | One has to ask whether different pressure groups within the Roman Church became equally hostile to Galileo , or whether , as some believed at the time , he was a victim of a Jesuit plot — of an act of revenge for insults he had meted out to prominent members of that order . |
| 5 | Where there has been malicious tampering of a product , if this occurs before the time of supply by , for example , an employee of the manufacturer , the latter will be strictly liable . |
| 6 | But all this depends on the time you have left after giving your attention to the centre of the question . |
| 7 | This happened at the time when the long bow was finally succeeded by the musket and pike . |
| 8 | Well er to me it does n't quite ring true , it 's always been the boys ' ploughing match and it always will be as far as I 'm concerned but I think this happened at the time post war I ca n't say exactly which year , when the date was changed from easter time to August . |
| 9 | In years with more bees , there is clearly a different quality of pollination and this varies with the time in the season considered , but poorer quality pollination at other times is better than none , so that specialization with one pollinator per plant species is unlikely to evolve . |
| 10 | The gaunt picture on the back tells a story that few understood at the time : Marley was being eaten by cancer . |
| 11 | Some said at the time that Leviathan had been written for Cromwell , and indeed Hobbes did say that it supported a ‘ conscientious obedience to the present government ’ of the Protectorate . |
| 12 | Before it , the talk in the High Court corridors was that Meehan would be acquitted for lack of evidence , but it was a view that few held by the time it was finished . |
| 13 | The damper song This comes from the time when old fires had dampers attached to control the fire . |
| 14 | I mean I 've certainly been very much helped in the time at Sussex when I 've been working part time by the men that I 've worked with |
| 15 | It all depends on the time I can find to prepare it . |
| 16 | Apparently they do a commemorative gig every year at the same pub where we were all based at the time . ’ |
| 17 | I was only a boy then , and it all began at the time my father owned the Admiral Benbow inn , at Black Hill Cove . |
| 18 | As many observed at the time , the question could have similarly been asked nearly fifty years earlier with regard to the relative lack of support for the 1926 General Strike in the same county : as Sunley ( 1990 ) describes the two geographies , they have ‘ striking parallels ’ . |
| 19 | They 're all gone by the time you get into work and they ai n't back by time you go home . |
| 20 | British culture can often be fiercely nationalistic , as we all saw at the time of the Falklands war . |
| 21 | This , as many said at the time , was not a function which judges and courts could perform successfully . |
| 22 | Of course this was all photographed at the time , and they found the oldest plough in Europe . |
| 23 | I went from a er boy 's school and all that that implied at the time in England , strict discipline , uniforms , that sort of thing , to er High School , a mixed High School in Ohio where the atmosphere was totally different , much more relaxed , much more friendly . |
| 24 | The analysis showed that there were many similarities between the activities that are systemically desirable and those undertaken at the time of the study , but highlighted certain aspects of the organisation that needed strengthening to allow the Colleges to become more self-supporting once the ERA took effect . |
| 25 | There are other texts which answer different needs , both our own and those living at the time the texts were produced . |
| 26 | If we define them simply , primary sources are those written at the time by someone usually connected with the event . |
| 27 | I simply stopped because I did n't have anything more to say at the time . |
| 28 | However , the University reserve the right to vary the charges from those confirmed at the time of booking by giving notice to the Organisers not less than 10 weeks in advance of the commencement of the conference/courses . |
| 29 | That contrasts with the time when Labour was in power when pensioners ' incomes increased by a modest 3 per cent . |
| 30 | Purporting to describe the end of the world ( ‘ 1984 ’ ) , one of the track titles , was the chosen dat ) and sprawling wildly across musical styles , some might call this album preposterous ( several did at the time ) . |