Example sentences of "the [adj] time [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But any doubts about Dick Tracy being the right film at the right time or reservations over whether Breathless Mahoney is the right part for the 31-year-old star are dispelled in the first ten minutes of the movie . |
| 2 | Some halted at the right time and others did n't , resulting in a bit of a rugger scrum . |
| 3 | It covers every aspect of the entire time that participants are present in the city or town where it 's being held . |
| 4 | This is an attractive idea , but for most adults the goal of learning through communicating naturally in the language throughout the day will , sadly , never be a practical one ; we have to continue to make use of something like formal classroom teaching because of the limited time and resources available . |
| 5 | I also stayed for the required time that politeness dictates . |
| 6 | The investment is measured in terms of the irrecoverable time and expenses involved in the learning process . |
| 7 | significantly , the more time that bands take becoming successful is often reflected by their longer stay at the top . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I know he has made mistakes , but for the first time since Shanks took over in 1959 , a Liverpool manager has got a job to do . |
| 9 | Tomorrow Barry visits Northampton for the first time since surgeons at the local hospital saved his legs from amputation . |
| 10 | Yesterday 's valedictory speech by Lord Donaldson was the first time that judges have spoken out about the treatment of Lord Lane at the hands of the media after a series of controversial court decisions . |
| 11 | Apparently modifying her stance of late 1989 , when she had warned against any over-hasty German reunification , Thatcher now took a less negative line , and on March 29 she appeared to concede for the first time that changes in Eastern Europe meant that " some reductions " could be made to the British Army of the Rhine in West Germany . |
| 12 | While the aide translated these remarks Joseph Sherman took the opportunity to glance around the room and noticed for the first time that groups of diminutive Annamese were standing quietly with their wives among the taller European men and women . |
| 13 | ‘ This is the first time that discounts have been extended to include householders on short term lets and others , ’ explained Harwell estate manager . |
| 14 | It was not , however , the first time that questions had been asked about Social Work Departments in Scotland . |
| 15 | This proved a great success , not least because this was the first time that paintings by Jackson Pollock had been exhibited in Europe . |
| 16 | Probably the first time that tsunami were blamed for a particular deposit was in Sir Edward Bailey 's brilliant exposition of the origin of the Upper Jurassic boulder beds in eastern Scotland , discussed in the last chapter . |
| 17 | Dr William Fore , former WACC President and now Visiting Lecturer in Communication at the School , said in a recent letter to delegates : ‘ The meeting promises to be a landmark , since it is the first time that teachers of communication in seminaries and schools of theology will have come together to consider their distinctive task in theological education . ’ |
| 18 | This is the first time that books have been disposed of in this way . |
| 19 | It was the first time that fundamentalists had killed a secularist commentator unconnected with the government . |
| 20 | It is the first time that troops have been brought in during an industrial dispute since the firemen 's strike in 1978 . |
| 21 | It will be the first time that politicians from Eastern Europe have been to dinner in the Speaker 's apartments . |
| 22 | It 's also the first time that outsiders have been allowed into their close-knit community . |
| 23 | This was the first time that employees and their partners , including those in the field , had got together socially . |
| 24 | With 15 minutes gone Airdrie were able to break out into attack for the first time and Hearts ' experienced defenders looked oddly rattled , particularly when Coyle came close with a flashing cross-shot from the left . |
| 25 | And then , as something else occurred to him , ‘ Was that , then , the only time that twins had ever been born to the Wolfline ? ’ |
| 26 | The Review Panel would have had to try to persuade the court that complying with FRED 1 failed to give a true and fair view , and it would have been presenting this argument at the same time that companies generally were being compelled to comply with FRS 3 ( a not fundamentally revised version of FRED 1 ) in order to give a true and fair view . |
| 27 | It may have been at about the same time that monks were installed in the church of St Edmund at Bury . |
| 28 | Thus , while trade unionists wished old people to be kept at a level of economic decency , they realized at the same time that pensions without a retirement condition would erode the wage structure and weaken trade union bargaining . |
| 29 | Why did n't they wait for the passengers to get off first , instead of squeezing themselves , their sacks of wheat and bicycles on at the same time that others were dragging their possessions off ? |
| 30 | At the same time that Engels argued that primitive societies were classless , he inevitably argued that the complex and subtle theory of history which he and Marx had developed just did not apply to these societies . |