Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] [art] time [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We have been told nothing about the time of year , but for the purposes of the story we must assume that the rains have come , and the waters are high and fast , even though the women and children have got across safely enough . |
| 2 | It 's not known with any degree of certainty , erm , there was some indication by someone writing at the end of the last century , that it was written by someone in the time of the Queen Elizabeth , hence , perhaps it was God Save The Queen . |
| 3 | We know nothing about its rulers , except for one about the time of the conquest , whose name began with the letter ‘ A ’ . |
| 4 | Duel , Born Yesterday — I know , I KNOW — The Front Page ( version one ) , Forty-Second Street , Cabaret , The Philadelphia Story , Calamity Jane , The Sunshine Boys , Camille Claudel , One Upon a Time in America , Crossing Delancy , Close Encounters of the Third Kind , Reds , ET , Brief Encounter … |
| 5 | In this case to is required in order to represent the relation in time between the two positions of person involved here , one before the time of the infinitive 's event , the other at the beginning of its actualization . |
| 6 | They , along with compositors , paper makers , wool sorters and colliers , had developed the rolling strike , or strike in detail , whereby shops were turned out one at a time with those in work supporting those who were withdrawn . |
| 7 | cars one at a time on horse drawn flat trucks , along Canterbury Road and Mitcham Road to dump them on the site in Aurelia Road , which the company had purchased for a depôt . |
| 8 | a series of instructions which would normally be issued one at a time on the keyboard to control a program . |
| 9 | The principal method of investigation is to show people sentences one at a time on a computer screen and measure the time it takes to understand a sentence . |
| 10 | Consequently , Nos. 1–16 were removed one at a time to Sutton depôt , where the track brake gear was removed and fitted to 36–43 , which took their place at Penge depôt . |
| 11 | After a few weeks , they were sent away one at a time to Hendon Works for repainting and returned renumbered 345–347 . |
| 12 | They were hauled alongside and manoeuvred one at a time to a position where they could be hauled aboard , encumbered by their diving equipment . |
| 13 | conclude on the basis of recent work on tachistoscopic word recognition that , at least with single-syllable words exposed one at a time to left or right visual hemifield , artefacts due to directional scanning contribute little if anything to hemifield asymmetry . |
| 14 | ‘ Tell the housekeeper she must count the needles , and only give out one at a time to the girls — they lose them so easily ! |
| 15 | Practical matters also reared their head when 15 teams were given three hours and a selection of Meccano , paper cups , cotton reels and other bits and pieces to make a machine that would take a bag of coins all in one go , and dispense them one at a time for sorting . |
| 16 | Simple random sampling can be achieved even when no frame is available but where the population members present themselves one at a time as potential sample members . |
| 17 | Delaney and Forster reached Lawton who helped them one at a time into the boat . |
| 18 | Instead of the medical materialism of Hammer horror , we get a surprisingly restrained treatment of the play 's fuliginous cruelties : even when the Duchess is invaded by a chorus of madmen , they are ushered in one at a time by a beady-eyed supervisor wielding a corrective cane . |
| 19 | It goes to the root of the Positivist idea that hypotheses can be tested one at a time by comparing their implications with objective , neutral facts of experience . |
| 20 | Beechams Pills could be bought one at a time in a spill for a penny . |
| 21 | CLE-1 , however , always imposes strong preferences , because of the way that reference candidates are tried one at a time in a depth-first fashion , with backtracking to the next candidate taking place when , and only when , the logical form involving the current one is deemed implausible . |
| 22 | The chorus is taken by people one at a time in a round |
| 23 | If , unusually , there is no time pressure , the targets can be approached one at a time in order of their relative attractiveness . |
| 24 | Second , so many features of our own constitutional practices are debated one at a time in just this way , that it is implausible to claim conventionalism as a good interpretation of the process by which our legal culture shifts and develops over time . |
| 25 | Down below , two points of red light appear , one at a time like a wink in reverse . |
| 26 | The second buyers compounded the goods into food for birds and the third buyers bought the compound and fed it to poultry which died because , unknown to anyone at the time of supply , the compound included minute traces of poison rendering it unfit for poultry . |
| 27 | The two men said nothing at the time to their wives , but a day or two later , the question of an evening of cards cropped up . |