Example sentences of "time it [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Roman times it became the capital city of the province of Asia and the principal port for all of south-west Anatolia . |
| 2 | At sessions time it attracted the gentry and London professionals for what was both a legal highlight and an important focal point of social intercourse . |
| 3 | By this time it carried the advertisements of a well-known whisky , and had lost some of its charisma . |
| 4 | Indeed , for a time it enabled the service to become an all HST operation so that some places actually had a better service . |
| 5 | Another well-timed cover-drive beat the fielder and this time it reached the boundary . |
| 6 | Icelandic salt cod was cheap , but transport and storage facilities were so unreliable that it was often rotten by the time it reached the housewife . |
| 7 | By the time it reached the Manchester Palace it had become the most well documented tour of the year . |
| 8 | The news might well be outdated by the time it reached the curia , messengers and even legates might be seized , as Cardinal Leo was by King Imre of Hungary , and the curial instructions might well be outdated when they reached their target . |
| 9 | On March 21st , a despatch from Falkenhayn admitted that Rupprecht had been right about the British not being able to take the offensive , and at the same time it ordered the withdrawal of three of his divisions for the general reserve . |
| 10 | Erm , my only view is that , er , the reason is that , by the time it saw the light of day , because remember , the manuscript was in the , the manuscript was physically in the possession of the Bullitt family not the Freud family . |
| 11 | Therefore , unless hiking with considerable fortitude , the only way to approximate their journey is to take the normal road up as far as Invermoriston and then continue on its south-western fork , the A887 , and in time it becomes the road — or so I presume — ; Johnson and Boswell travelled , the one cut by General Wade , straight across the rising land and emerging a little over half-way along the present road through Glenmoriston . |
| 12 | For a long time it suited the others to have him in that job . |
| 13 | At the time it appalled the traditionalists ; now it is winning them round with its logical elegance , nostalgic glamour and atmosphere of cocktails on a Cunard liner . |
| 14 | The local residents organisation says it 's opposed to laws that segregate residential areas on the grounds of race , but at the same time it accuses the state of appearing reluctant to apply laws governing squatting . |
| 15 | After nearly two centuries of grinding corn , it eventually fell into disuse in the 1860s , at which time it housed the miller and his large family . |
| 16 | This time it made the trip from West Croydon to Sutton and passengers included the Mayors of Sutton and Cheam and of Beddington and Wallington . |
| 17 | Some of the audience calmly fetched additional chairs from a store and we each sat holding our stacking chair over our heads until the shower subsided , in about the same time it took the film rain to subside . |
| 18 | The survey by the National Consumer Council among almost 1,000 consumers found widespread dissatisfaction with the time it took the ombudsmen to settle disputes . |
| 19 | At the same time it formed the core of the unusually powerful organised trade-union movement . |
| 20 | The hardline leadership admitted for the first time it regretted the exodus , admitted there were problems and conceded it might be partly to blame . |
| 21 | And the futures market is being manipulated to protect share prices : the Tokyo Stock Exchange , a mouthpiece of the finance ministry , wants the right to prevent securities firms from trading stock-index futures on their own account any time it thinks the stockmarket is ‘ overheated ’ . |
| 22 | The treatment can decrease the time it takes the body to remove the lactic acid build-up in your muscles . |
| 23 | If the intervals are not regular but are simply the time it takes the operator to change the subject and are not perceptible , it becomes stop-motion ( or single frame ) animation proper — the movement is created , but not actually recorded . |
| 24 | And the model incorporates an adjustable time lag in the volcanic and solar influences to allow for the time it takes the temperature of the atmosphere and oceans to respond to outside influences . |
| 25 | I judge that in the time it takes the lift to creep the height of the building I have to be out the door and on my way . |
| 26 | For example , by shouting into a pitch black cavern we can gauge its size from the time it takes the echo of the shout to reach us . |
| 27 | At the same time it converts the colour coding frequencies from PAL to NTSC and combines 50 lines of each field to reduce the scanning pattern from 312.5 lines to 262.5 lines . |
| 28 | Pandarus ' prose not only proves that he does n't take Troilus seriously , so turning our reaction towards a scepticism that stands off from full involvement , but in time it establishes the speaker as a matter-of-fact fixer , who is not only alien to romance but coarsens whatever he touches . |
| 29 | The names in lights will include Arnold Schwarzenegger in Carolco 's ‘ Terminator 2 ’ , which may have cost $90m by the time it hits the screen ; Kevin Costner as Robin Hood ; and Julia Roberts in ‘ Dying Young ’ , a Fox weepie . |
| 30 | But at the same time it reinforced the message that children in need were not characteristically children whose parents were abusive or neglectful . |