Example sentences of "the [adj] time [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While , as suggested earlier , the different time horizons of elected politicians and civil servants allow scope for the fragmentation of policy-making and group interests , limits are placed on this by the openness of the British state to organized interests . |
| 2 | However , the usual arrangement is to combine the three time constants in a single network and the alternative types are shown in Fig 3 , two of which are suitable for a passive circuit whilst the others can be used in a feedback circuit because their impedance overall varies in accordance with the R.I.A.A. requirements . |
| 3 | The letter says ‘ Up to the present time items of play equipment have been loaned by Scorton Village School but these have now had to be returned and replacement equipment will be most beneficial for the group to continue . |
| 4 | Without doubt this package is one of the all time greats of shareware programming . |
| 5 | One of the all time greats of rock and roll is in the region tonight on the last date of a UK tour . |
| 6 | The " Baltic path " to emancipation — the landless variant — was discredited at the very time disagreements over the way forward were at their height . |
| 7 | Spitfire PL965 is a fine testament to the skills and devotion of the full time members of the rebuild team along with the dedication of the many members of the Medway Aircraft Preservation Society . |
| 8 | The statement reported the summit 's decision to establish a " special commission to consider the suggestions of the countries on the key aspects of co-operation within the CMEA framework and to work out in the shortest time drafts of new fundamental CMEA documents " . |
| 9 | In the case of non-delivery , wrong delivery or loss of a consignment or of any separate package , the respective time limits for advising and making the claim are 28 days and 42 days . |
| 10 | Government officials are admitting for the first time families in mid-value houses of £66,000 — £88,000 are likely to face bills of £600 not £400 as hoped . |
| 11 | It is the first time crews outside London have decided to cut themselves off from controllers and to accept only those calls put through by the police , the fire service , GPs , hospitals and the public . |
| 12 | In this study we aimed to record for the first time patterns of UOS motility associated with occurrence of GOR in children referred for evaluation of suspected disorders of oesophageal motility including pathological gastro-oesophageal reflux . |
| 13 | But the testing time has now arrived ; because for the first time posts of leadership in humanities departments are being taken up by a generation of scholars who have been familiar with the computer from their earliest schooldays , scholars who are neither frightened by , nor over-respectful of , the new powers which the computer has brought . |
| 14 | However , during the fifteenth century changes were introduced and we see for the first time representations of corpses , cadavers and skeletons , and it is from these — usually to be found on memorial brasses , and particularly on those in East Anglia — that we acquire our first glimpse of the English shroud . |
| 15 | For the first time details of serious crimes , including all cases of cattle stealing which village headmen chose to report , were investigated by a police force which could in theory take quick and decisive action . |
| 16 | The Disciplinary Committee lost no time in expanding its reports of hearings , issuing for the first time details of the chairman 's comments in the case of Michael Jordan , senior partner of Cork Gully , and Richard Stone , head of corporate finance at Coopers & Lybrand , who were found guilty last year of accepting the appointment of administrator to Polly Peck in spite of a continuing professional interest between PPI and C&L . |
| 17 | For the first time films by and about the indigenous population of North America will be included in the festival . |
| 18 | For the first time representatives from the Soviet Union 's republics ( the Deputy Foreign Ministers of Armenia , Azerbaidjan , Georgia , the Russian Federation and Ukraine ) formed part of the Soviet delegation to the conference of Black Sea countries , which took place on July 11-12 near Moscow . |
| 19 | The 1988 survey included for the first time results from saliva tests from half the children surveyed ; this double check may have encouraged them to be more honest about their smoking habits . |
| 20 | This enterprising tour should be well worth following as it is the first time cricketers of this age from South Africa have toured in England . |
| 21 | At the same time rules of conduct were established for the behaviour of member nations . |
| 22 | At the same time estimates of demand-led expenditure on social security have been increased still further . |
| 23 | At the same time physicians in government clinics in Gaza examined an impossibly large number of patients — on average 100 patients per day , while in UNRWA clinics a doctor would examine between 70 and 120 patients daily . |
| 24 | The Unit is based within the Department of Sociology and its staff and students are at the same time members of the department . |
| 25 | At the same time warrants of arrest were issued for a number of former ministers and other Ershad associates . |
| 26 | At the same time qualities of loyalty , caring and unashamed affection are highlighted as lives become ever more intimately linked by bereavement . |
| 27 | Butlin 's blend maybe did n't look too modern for very long once chartered air travel offered a world of new possibilities to the British holiday-maker , and at the same time patterns of leisure were developing more privatized forms . |
| 28 | At the same time revisions of transport legislation , to improve road safety and to extend the width limit on lorries to comply with international standards , were approved by 898,718 votes ( 52.8 per cent ) to 803,540 ( 47.2 per cent ) . |
| 29 | At the same time changes of wave direction are imposed on waves by the sea bottom interfering with the flow pattern in the waves , but these directional changes are considered later on . |
| 30 | Acts of nomination are at the same time acts of ‘ classification ’ . |