Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [noun] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The large size of the chamber , which permits the introduction of several specimens at one time , and the reduction in preparation time by removing the need to coat specimens has made it possible to scan much larger numbers of specimens than would normally be possible . |
| 2 | If the presence of Amy eating her food is the signal ( antecedent ) for Keith to take it ( problem behaviour ) then the change of lunch time arrangements leave Keith without the signal or the food to steal . |
| 3 | So as you get older , your potential to earn increases Now in this case , because age is increasing and income is increasing , I E they 're getting bigger together , it 's said that there 's a positive correlation In the case of reaction time and intelligence quotient , as reaction time gets bigger I E gets worse I Q increases , so in fact many people would say that their in I Q and R T are negatively correlated in the sense of as your I Q gets better , your reaction time gets worse . |
| 4 | In the old days there were around a dozen people in the field at harvest time . |
| 5 | It would be all around the convent before bed time . |
| 6 | This is taking up time , but if hon. Members are alleging that I took a point of order from the hon. Member for Surbiton ( Mr. Tracey ) , I did so because the Chair has to hear the point of order if it is alleged that something unparliamentary happened during the course of Question Time . |
| 7 | Morrissey is needed , not as an ombudsman , or a figure of the eighties , but as a horrified figure against the eighties , who has turned his back on the march of pop time as the last keeper of the sanctuary of self-pity , apartness , exile ’ ( David Stubbs ) . |
| 8 | Both are run from the top : party headquarters pick the candidates at election time , control the patronage , take no nonsense from the constituencies . |
| 9 | I know the car 's essential but for instance if you 're going to an estate agent you 're not running round using the car in company time . |
| 10 | The cost is not excessive although the demands on family time can be considerable . |
| 11 | As a first attempt we have tried to calculate this from the mean letter width for a particular writer , which can be obtained from the raw x-coordinate data for the script at training time . |
| 12 | On the journalists ' evidence , if the directives had been in force during the previous twelve months the effect on air time would have been minimal . |
| 13 | Feminists organized a local protest over the issue at election time , returning a woman to the local council on the specific platform of curbing male immorality . |
| 14 | Tony Bomford , a cameraman who was diving from my boat , reported that the water near the ‘ ball ’ was ‘ milky looking ’ but this is unlikely to be connected with breeding because sand-eels are known to spawn in the sand in winter time . |
| 15 | Anyway I 'm not signing off until about 5.30 tonight so I 'll keep waiting and reading those messages until then — after I 've been to the pub at dinner time of course ! |
| 16 | " And you should have seen 'em kill the rats at haymaking time , young Bruce . |
| 17 | In spite of trade union protests , not just by representatives of this union , but by representatives of a number of unions , all within my hearing , the public heard little about our vote winning policies for full employment , or a minimum wage , or decent rights at work , the Party said next to nothing in high profile terms , about child care or maternity rights or the exploitation of part time workers . |
| 18 | The total amount of time taken up in such social exchanges or interactions in this sample is in fact relatively small : a division of housewives into three groups according to the proportion of work time thus occupied — less than twenty-five per cent , between twenty-five and fifty per cent , more than fifty per cent — revealed the majority of women to be in the first group ; there was no significant relationship with work satisfaction patterns . |
| 19 | Erm and the percentage of part time staff to full time staff , which is one I raised . |
| 20 | We have shown that the fall in breakfast time UAO is a reliable predictor of gastric acid secretion in adult populations with a high prevalence of achlorhydric subjects . |
| 21 | From 1 April 1993 all the costs of part time posts ( at all grades ) will be held by regional postgraduate deans . |
| 22 | Of course , we only got one thrashing set at that time o' day , you see ; and we d finish in March or the fore-part of April time . |
| 23 | Thus whereas the bare infinitive allows for the incidence of its event to a support situated within the confines of event time , the mechanism of incidence provided for by the verb form itself is inoperative when called upon express an incidence to a support situated prior to the time contained in the event . |
| 24 | Thus to is used with the infinitive both for the lexical and grammatical meaning it brings into the context : its lexical meaning of an approach to the infinitive event from a position before is called for by the relative position in time of the extra-infinitival spatial support with respect to the position occupied by non-ordinalized person at the beginning of the infinitive 's event ; its grammatical meaning as an establisher of a relation where the inherent mechanism of incidence is inoperative is called for by the fact that the event can not otherwise be represented as incident to the extra-infinitival support since the latter is not already situated at the beginning of the event , i.e. is not within the confines of event time . |
| 25 | The links are set up temporarily by the DBMS at run time following a user request for this information . |
| 26 | Visitor attractions at off-peak times or in off-season periods are unlikely to have any significant effect in reducing peaks , but they may help to spread the loading on staff time . |
| 27 | Incidentally , it was not until the end of the fifteenth century that the sand-glass was depicted as the attribute of Father Time . |
| 28 | A whimsical story is told by Whitby farmers from Yorkshire in northern England of the GHOST of a young man who wanders the town at Christmas time . |
| 29 | I 'm not gon na go over t what my colleague has said but what I do wan na know is when are the Labour Party gon na get hold of some issue and make some sort of mileage out of it , because we 've got a number of sponsored MPs and we ca n't get 'em off the doorstep at election time , but when it comes about doing summat for us and consider the fact that it affects many many people and we talk about the links that the Labour Party and the trade union has , I think the Labour Party 's already severed 'em , as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 30 | We walked around and saw some of the sights until lunch time when we found a nice quiet little pub not far from the Hard Rock Cafe , where we fed our faces . |