Example sentences of "time [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they had exhausted politics , Julia asked David whether he had seen the recent report in The Times about the Allied commission which had been investigating Italians who had helped escaping prisoners of war . |
| 2 | The membranes were then mixed with an equal volume of the resuspension buffer ( 20mM HEPES/arginine , pH7.4 , 10% sucrose , 2.5% Ficoll , 0.5mM DTT ) and extruded four times through the lipid extruder using one layer of Nuclepore polycarbonate membrane of decreasing pore size from 800nm to 400nm . |
| 3 | Indeed , the outline of the lake may have altered in the times between the individual surveys . |
| 4 | As to using acrylic directly on top of oil paint , this is generally best avoided , mainly because of the difference in drying times between the two media . |
| 5 | As to using acrylic directly on top of oil paint , this is generally best avoided , mainly because of the difference in drying times between the two media . |
| 6 | There were times during the other quarter-final when a repeat win for Wright over Devoy seemed possible . |
| 7 | The tourists had looked decidedly ordinary at times during the first half , but combined more fluently in the second to run up their most convincing victory to date , albeit a hollow one . |
| 8 | Many were , indeed , buried during the Hannibalic War or the civil wars after 49BC , when much of the fighting took place in Italy , but many other hoards were buried at times during the first century BC when there was no fighting there . |
| 9 | There were times during the long hours of dark when he did drop into an uneasy doze , but never for more than a few minutes together . |
| 10 | He stated that , at several times during the following hours , Mr Oliver had been clear-thinking and articulate . |
| 11 | James was more circumspect , finding the boundary three times during the 144 balls he faced . |
| 12 | Greeks , Romans , Byzantines , Bulgars , Turks , Albanians and Vlahs all at different times during the medieval period made their cultural , political and ethnic contributions to the Macedonian melting pot . |
| 13 | ( 2 ) Rule 22 and Appendix 4 to the Code impose obligations on the target and its registrar to provide the offeror 's receiving agent , following the announcement of an offer , with the target 's register of members ( in computer-readable form , where practicable ) to keep the target 's register up-to-date , to provide the offeror 's receiving agent with copies of all documents which will result in a change to the last copy register provided to the offeror or its advisers , to permit the offeror 's receiving agent access to the target 's register at all times during the closing stages of the offer and to register transfers promptly during the offer ( see para 12.4 below ) . |
| 14 | Until that day John Russell was just a name I had written in the Division account book a few times during the past year . |
| 15 | Many times during the past evening he had returned to her , in ludicrous , colourful , brightly painted effigy , all his embarrassments clustered and clanging round him , all his mannerisms protruding , projected , enhanced : the sharp red nose , the usually broken bifocal spectacles , the striped woolly lunch-spattered waistcoats , the bald shining brown freckled Professor Branestawm brow , the pockets full of string , the green socks and brown sandals , the little pedantries , the favourite quotations , the antiquarian commentary , the hydrometer , the tufts of hair in his ears , the batty , potty , dotty , hurt , persistent grin . |
| 16 | Also at the conference were two Australian ex-professional sprinters , John Dinan and Chris Perry , who had been running some fast times during the Antipodean summer . |
| 17 | Tony and the therapist arranged to meet four times during the next month . |
| 18 | Yet when men were asked to smell swabs taken from a woman 's vagina at different times during the menstrual cycle , they found the smells least attractive at the time of ovulation . |
| 19 | Individuals were also asked to assess the severity of a task at different times during the 24 hours . |
| 20 | A TERRIFIED pensioner who has been burgled eight times during the last year said she had become a prisoner in her own home . |
| 21 | Robert Walerand , appointed Justice of the southern forests in 1256 , was Steward of the Household , and was sent to France on diplomatic missions several times during the three years in which he was head of the Forest administration . |
| 22 | A variety of news items were selected at different times during the three years of the survey . |
| 23 | The castle changed hands many times during the Scottish Wars of Independence and remained a thorn in the crown until James V sacked it in the sixteenth century ; but before the level of the loch was raised in the 1930s , |
| 24 | He won the local Easter parade a couple of times as the best-dressed man which , in the depressed Thirties , must have put him in the mould of something of an exhibitionist . |
| 25 | The same day , however , was to make the reputation of another man , Edward , eldest son of the king of England , known since Tudor times as the Black Prince , whose courage and chivalric conduct won him general admiration . |
| 26 | I completed tidying the loft , sneezing a few times as the golden space filled with motes of shining dust . |
| 27 | But looked at in its full historical perspective , Karajan 's career from 1929 to 1949 was as subject to trauma , disruption , and the vagaries of the times as the next man 's . |
| 28 | Concurrent verbalisation was found to reduce balancing times for the right hand but not the left hand . |
| 29 | Given all these factors , the simple reduced memory method would be most appropriate to the situation , being the optimum for memory size and search times for the 60,144 word list . |
| 30 | The roads in this upper part of the valley were designed in medieval times for the occasional passage of horses and carts and have never been brought to modern standards by straightening and widening and it is to be hoped that they never will be . |