Example sentences of "on the [noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT WAS recently on the cover of Time , described as ‘ the next superpower ’ . |
| 2 | There were none of the demonstrations or obstructions which he had feared , and in fact such was the success of the play that he was featured on the cover of Time magazine on 6 March . |
| 3 | After Daniel Bonnal , Hélène de Roquefeuil is featuring the Milanese Alessandro Traina , who causes us to meditate on the notion of time by juxtaposing a variety of disparate materials . |
| 4 | If one takes degrees of latitude on the surface of time to be the analogue of time , one could say that the surface of the earth begins at the North Pole . |
| 5 | For example : After payment of the Preference Dividend and the Preferred Dividend payable in respect of each financial year of the Company ( including any Arrears of the same ) the Company shall [ subject to provisions of clause … of the facility agreement ] pay to the Ordinary Shareholders out of the balance of any profits available for distribution a non-cumulative dividend of such amount as the Company shall determine ( but not exceeding the amount recommended by the Directors such recommendation to include the consent of the Investors ' Director ) on the capital from time to time paid up or credited as paid up on each Ordinary Share . |
| 6 | By coincidence , three of the most visually and intellectually provocative shows are dramatic meditations on the relationship of time , space and chance . |
| 7 | They had only just managed to get on the vessel in time . |
| 8 | They have developed the pleasant habit of touching each other on the shoulder in time of trouble , as a sort of physical sympathy . |
| 9 | The proprietor , Lord Mansfield , arrived on the scene in time to save the last stone . |
| 10 | Hesiod , unlike Homer , in his Works and Days gave an account of man 's decline from a primeval Golden Age ; his poem was based implicitly on the concept of time , although the word ‘ time ’ never actually appears in it . |
| 11 | He found that , on the evidence of time delays between publication and citation , there was a marked trend towards the use of more recent literature . |
| 12 | Bede not only compiled a detailed account of this important Synod but in another of his treatises , De temporum ratione ( ‘ On the Reckoning of Time ’ ) , written in 725 and generally regarded as his scientific masterpiece , he computed Easter tables for the period 532 to 1063 and also made a first attempt at a general chronology of the world down to the reign of the contemporary Byzantine emperor , Leo the Isaurian . |
| 13 | Like Egon Zehnder , fees are charged on the basis of time and difficulty of each assignment , and not on the successful candidate 's salary ; a minimum fee of £20000 is quoted . |
| 14 | The depreciation allocation to each year may be made on the basis of time or service using one of a variety of methods ( for example , straight line , units of production , sum of the years ' digits , reducing balance ) which are described in most standard accounting texts . |
| 15 | Trying to convince people the project was worth pursuing was not easy , and over a long period personal time had to be carved out to work on the project from time allocated to a variety of other activities ranging from textile fibres to films and even to electronics . |
| 16 | Doses received by local people would depend on the amount of time they spent near areas of higher radioactivity , and on whether any of the radioactivity passed through the food chain . |
| 17 | Many women found it difficult to put an exact figure on the amount of time they spent on the various areas of farm work . |
| 18 | The prosecution laboured long on the amount of time the whittling had taken which therefore proved considerable premeditation . |
| 19 | This would have probably entailed working involuntary overtime , possibly long , awkward hours and , almost certainly , making a physical input , one consequence of which would have been a limit on the amount of time spent with the children and energy contributed to their amusement . |
| 20 | Of course , your travels will be dependent on the amount of time you 're prepared to invest behind the wheel . |
| 21 | To ensure continuity and to give more necessary practice ( further consolidation ) , appropriate homework or a task should be given at the end of each lesson , or at least once or twice a week , depending on the amount of time the student is able or prepared to give up to home study . |
| 22 | Simon has now cut right down on the amount of time he spend playing and has also undergone treatment from his doctor . |
| 23 | We will introduce a 110-day limit on the length of time for which a prisoner may be held before trial , repeal the broadcasting ban , and provide for the videotaping of police interviews with terrorist suspects . |
| 24 | Using a number of different types of analysis , in order to create well-matched subgroups , comparisons were drawn between action and control samples on the length of time sample members were sustained at home following referral to the psychogeriatric service . |
| 25 | Although many authorities can deal with routine applications within the eight weeks allowed to them , applications raising major issues and those dealing with large construction programmes , are extremely unlikely to be dealt with in anything like that period ( statistics on the length of time taken by local authorities in dealing with applications are produced regularly by the Department of the Environment ) . |
| 26 | Tacograph readings are used to enforce European safety limits on the length of time a driver is behind the wheel without a break . |
| 27 | Tachograph readings are used to enforce European safety limits on the length of time a driver is behind the wheel without a break . |
| 28 | A simple administrative procedure needs to be established where a limit is placed on the length of time for which a particular vacancy is reserved to the Compact . |
| 29 | The gain to a firm from reneging on the collusive agreement will depend partly on cost , demand , and capacity parameters and partly on the length of time for which a higher profit than that realized under the agreement can be earned before retaliation by the other firms takes place . |
| 30 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will indicate the nature and range of discussions he has had with OFTEL on the length of time customers have had to wait to have their telephones repaired ; what changes in waiting time there have been in the last seven years ; and if he will make a statement . |