Example sentences of "to [noun pl] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of Tin Pan Alley tunes share this scheme and Adorno is quite justified in arguing that to listeners of the time it would be totally predictable . |
| 2 | To Catholics of the time its text was especially relevant and poignant ; Byrd 's choice of those first four verses of Psalm Ixxviii ( Ixix in English translations ) allude to the martyrdom of Edmund Campion and his companions in 1581 . |
| 3 | Secretary of State for Social Services , ex parte CPAG , ( [ 1989 ] 1 All ER 1047 ) the Court of Appeal affirmed a decision of the High Court in which the trial judge had said that the practicability of such speedy decision making was not such that the Secretary of State was required to appoint sufficient adjudication officers to enable claims to be decided within 14 days , and recognized that workloads may lead to delays beyond the time limit expressed in the Social Security Act 1975 . |
| 4 | It could still and at the same time be an anglicisation of ‘ Froda ’ , a name ‘ meaningless ’ to hobbits by the time of the War of the Ring , and accepted by them as just another chance disyllable like ‘ Bilba , Bunga , Pola ’ , but actually preserving in oblivion the name of an ancient hero from the Dale or the Mark . |
| 5 | No regular warning was given to students of the time of operations . |
| 6 | According to reports at the time , McAvennie and a couple of unnamed cohorts left the club 's annual Christmas dinner and tried to gatecrash a private party being held in the hotel by West Ham 's commercial manager Brian Blower . |