Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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' . |
| 4 | The quotas rise as time passes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | General Portfolio B P Pitney Bowes over the years have from time to time provided us with funding |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |