Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as there are many degree courses which have no specific vocational links so also there are many careers which require the application of intelligence and the disciplines learned during time at university rather than specific subject knowledge . |
| 2 | However slowly , the forms tended over time to reflect the facts . |
| 3 | But this issue has not been the subject of legislation , nor previously been considered by this court or the House of Lords , and in such circumstances the alternatives are either to dismiss the appeal despite the relevance of article 10 and wait for Parliament to reconsider the state of the law ; or , as the courts have from time to time demonstrated their ability and willingness to do , venture into relatively unchartered waters and declare the present state of the law . |
| 4 | For example , while the present data show how soft constraints affect preference ( and thus the state of the comprehension system ) , they can not address the question of how the preferences develop over time on reading a stimulus sentence . |
| 5 | The combination seems to point to some underlying form of ‘ essential history ’ of which each individual provides his variant but which can only be hinted at , not revealed , because when the voices join across time they never quite marry , though their coming together is an attempt to generate something which like a collective emotion is necessarily felt as something more than the experience of the individual , as something dominant and external' . |
| 6 | The quotas rise as time passes . |
| 7 | But Charles had a nagging fear that it was n't that , that Michael Banks really was trying , that he did go through the lines time after time in the evenings , but that his mind could no longer retain them . |
| 8 | The parents separated from time to time and the father also served a prison sentence . |
| 9 | General Portfolio B P Pitney Bowes over the years have from time to time provided us with funding |
| 10 | Wounded were being carried through the trees to the shelter of the farm buildings , the medics stopping from time to time to rest , then continued quickly on their way . |
| 11 | The myriad cells of the brain are like the shells where pearls are born but incomparably finer , and in these cells the ideas sleep through time , and are cut and polished and made perfect and they at last enter a crucible where the new crystal is reborn and is grown . |
| 12 | As far as mental state is concerned we first examined the OBS score over time of all dementia sufferers not admitted straight away to long-term institutional care . |
| 13 | While Westerners were impressed that the trains ran on time in Italy , and that unemployment had been solved in Germany , Hitler was preparing for war . |
| 14 | The often-heard statement that Hitler and Mussolini made the trains run on time can be seen — in this context — as a profoundly political one . |
| 15 | One regular passenger said : ‘ Her presence seems to be the only thing that makes the trains run on time . ’ |
| 16 | Being in a position of absolute power , Mussolini did every thing he could to ensure his continuing popularity by constructing autostrade , electrifying railways and making the trains run on time , as well as by such elaborate schemes as draining the Ponrine Marshes , previously infested by malarial mosquitoes , and reclaiming them for agriculture . |
| 17 | All that was fine and good , but in the end it 's not enough to have someone who makes the trains run on time . |
| 18 | Mussolini , he reflected , was reputed to have made the trains run on time if nothing else , and he wondered if it might not be a good idea to offer him a job controlling Britain 's network . |
| 19 | It is a popular story that the Fascists did at least get the trains to run on time , and had that been all things might have turned out for the better , but the Duce also evolved the theory of Italia Irredenta , ‘ Unrecovered Italy ’ . |
| 20 | It is always worth having a look at the roughs plotted over time , and thinking hard about what has been discarded in the smoothing operation . |
| 21 | The first few stages of this process are summarised in Table 2 , where C * ; represents consumption of home-produced goods and the subscripts refer to time periods . |
| 22 | So the first problem facing any study of land use is the paucity of good and compatible data , for as the upper section of Table 8.2 shows , there can be considerable variations between different estimates , although the data do provide broad answers to the main points of interest defined by Peters ( 1970 ) namely : How much land is there ? how is it distributed between the major land uses ? and how have the allocations changed over time ( and space ) ? |
| 23 | Many of the issues relating to time based fees also apply to contingency fee structures . |
| 24 | The mean counts were each corrected for nuclide decay and the results plotted against time on a semi-logarithmic plot . |
| 25 | The cultural baggage which any social group , tribe , or institution such as the police acquires over time can thus be translated to reveal just what sustains it , and furthermore reveal what the society itself may not even have understood . |
| 26 | When I awoke and started getting ready for my classes , which now passed mechanically , as if in a vacuum , the students suspended in time and space , and my own voice seeming to come from somewhere a long , long way away , I would write a poem for you as a kind of incantation to bring you back that day : |
| 27 | Throughout the week the races started on time ( except for previously announced postponements ) , the rescue cover was ample and markers included two conspicuous 2m black spheres which seemed hardly to break the surface , so high did they ride . |
| 28 | Last year , the rains came on time in April . |
| 29 | The decision will be made in early May and the cards produced in time for the major summer shows in Wales . |
| 30 | The decision will be made in early May and the cards produced in time for the major summer shows in Wales . |