Example sentences of "to [noun] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father , ruling duke of Celle ( exchanged for Hanover which he had governed from 1648 ) since 1665 , was not married to Eléonore at the time of their daughter 's birth , but , by military and diplomatic services to the Holy Roman Emperor , he obtained the legitimization of Sophia Dorothea and in 1675 the legal marriage of her parents was permitted . |
| 2 | The mystery remains , but the letters are worth quoting as they reflect the attitude of middle-ranking staff officers to Stirling at the time . |
| 3 | No blame seems to have been attached to Stirling at the time . |
| 4 | If unable to lane within the time allowed , or to approach and land visually , leave at the altitude and route appropriate for that airfield . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're confined to barracks for the time being , Private Nobody . ’ |
| 6 | Mainland ice flowing from east to west at the time of the glacial maximum was diverted northwards around Harris , whereas the smaller , isolated hills on North Uist , Benbecula and South Uist provided little restriction to the regional movements . |
| 7 | People usually start to feel better about a problem when they have some explanation for it , but hang-ups relating to very early patterns of relating between mother and baby which we have been describing may not come to light within the time normally allowed for this type of treatment . |
| 8 | The direction only applies to evidence which a party " intends to place reliance on " and so can not apply to new evidence which only comes to light after the time for serving statements has passed . |
| 9 | All timings quoted are approximate and are subject to confirmation at the time of booking . |
| 10 | We can now not only see how justified this comment was but , in details inaccessible to Freud at the time he was writing , can determine with some exactness both the causes and the consequences of this fateful development in human evolution . |
| 11 | Thousands of Tin Pan Alley tunes share this scheme and Adorno is quite justified in arguing that to listeners of the time it would be totally predictable . |
| 12 | Salmon , who was close to Picasso at the time and whose interest in tribal art probably antedates Picasso 's , confirms this . |
| 13 | My latest specimen has increased from 8 cm in November 1991 , to 30cm at the time of writing ( mid-June ) . |
| 14 | If the sciences were less subordinate to theology at the time of Newton than at the time of Copernicus , had the Reformation in religion created favorable conditions for a reformation in science ? |
| 15 | so , I know , I never ended up where I said I was going either cos erm I met this Rus Russian lady and her sister was with her as well and we were er , she advised me not to go to Russia for the time being because it will be over , she said there 's gon na be a lot of blood shed |
| 16 | When God appeared to Moses at the time of the burning bush , Moses was told , |
| 17 | The destination — as so often with this ship — was Honduras in Central America , quite a rich source of exports to England at the time , including the mahogany which was used for so much 19th-century furniture . |
| 18 | It was the skull of an African servant who had been brought to England at the time of the Slave Trade . |
| 19 | The sky had darkened to violet by the time Mortimer had formed up his troops for the march out of town , and a star-speckled dome was overhead when the column of fifty Marines , plus Benny , Ace and Petion marched out of Port-au-Prince at a slight jog . |
| 20 | Its brief was to ‘ help and persuade as many people as possible to look forward to retirement as the time of fulfilment ’ ( Hubbard 1962 ) . |
| 21 | He was married to Sonia at the time . ’ |
| 22 | In TV , the cost is based on TV Ratings ( TVRs ) , which are the percentage of households in which the TV is turned on to ITV at the time the ad is run ; in press , the cost is per thousand readers ( or , occasionally , circulation ) of the given publication ; in cinema , it is based on audience sizes ; in posters , on people passing the poster and , therefore , able to see it . |
| 23 | To Catholics of the time its text was especially relevant and poignant ; Byrd 's choice of those first four verses of Psalm Ixxviii ( Ixix in English translations ) allude to the martyrdom of Edmund Campion and his companions in 1581 . |
| 24 | Also the language used by a Linfield player to Malone at the time of the incident was nothing short of a disgrace . |
| 25 | As the task force made its slow way towards the Falklands exclusion zone , hostilities began in earnest on 2 May when a torpedo from a British nuclear-powered submarine sank the Argentine cruiser , General Belgrano , with the loss of 360 lives ; it was a highly suspicious episode , since the Belgrano appeared to be leaving the exclusion zone and heading back to Argentina at the time . |
| 26 | The company flew him specially from Europe to Bristol at the time . |
| 27 | He said Alex had already led the girls to safety by the time he arrived to rescue Michael , who had slept through the ordeal . |
| 28 | It was close to midnight by the time Patrick reached the house in Mayfair . |
| 29 | It does indeed seem that the taboo on wives working was still operating among the generation that came to maturity at the time of the Great War . |
| 30 | But the fact remains that there is no formal record that AFHQ had specifically been informed of the approach of the Croats to Austria at the time when Robertson drafted his signal . |