Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The " Hallelujah lasses " had been used to raising their own voices in protest and employing some fairly dramatic methods to attract attention from the time Catherine Booth took up the cudgels on behalf of women in the early days of the movement . |
| 2 | Availability is the percentage of time for which the plant is mechanically capable of producing full rated output of electricity , whether or not such output was called for to meet demand at the time . |
| 3 | Museums also helped to focus attention on the time dimension in natural history by displaying spectacular collections of fossils . |
| 4 | Although just over half of a sample of teenage mothers in 1979 — 80 had had some kind of family planning lesson at school , only a quarter had attempted to use contraception around the time they conceived . |
| 5 | Father Anstruther , the former vicar who lived rather too near , was to do duty for the time of Mark 's absence — not an entirely satisfactory arrangement but the best that could be made . |
| 6 | The time for repairs , it would seem , was about to give way to the time for offence , if not injury . |
| 7 | Instead he was back in Sheffield Shield ranks looking to recover form by the time the fifth Test had begun . |
| 8 | On Feb. 20 , 1990 , the MRG and the Association of Democrats ( Association des démocrates — a heterogeneous grouping of leading centrist personalities from which the left sought to gain support at the time of the 1988 presidential elections ) announced the conclusion of an agreement aiming to develop " the second force within the presidential majority " . |