Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | Where by the Act or the rules the time limited for doing any act is seven days or less , Saturday , Sunday , Christmas Day , Good Friday , Tuesday in Easter week , Bank Holidays and any other day on which the offices of the court are closed must be excluded in computing such time . |
2 | They effectively stretched the bones every time the pins were turned . |
3 | What you do need , however , is an abundance of both taste and flavour and enough wholesome substance to relieve your pangs of hunger , and Eastern food delivers the goods every time . |
4 | Lawyers who spend their days faxing revisions of contracts to one another could avoid the need to type in the changes every time they receive something new . |
5 | no less than in the Infants the time before , |
6 | I can feel the lorries every time they go past — the ground sort of shakes like a whatnot — an earthquake . |
7 | If on the other hand you frequently send out stories which will be of interest to quite a wide selection of the media it will take too long to go through a large directory and jot down the names every time . |
8 | It is no good not following those rules and then worrying when your teenager is not back at the expected time , looking nervously at the clock and twitching the curtains every time a car pulls up in your road . |
9 | ‘ In other words you could n't bear the thought that there might just be one female in a hundred-mile radius who did n't fall apart at the seams every time you deigned to smile in her direction , ’ she spat back . |
10 | Suddenly the idea of keeping her enemy close seemed ludicrous — how could she keep him close when she fell apart at the seams every time he was anywhere near her ? |
11 | After all , she was the one who fell apart at the seams every time they touched , while he remained infuriatingly unmoved . |
12 | If you do that , we are going to fill the stadiums every time , the receipts are going to be there to channel back into developing the game and the profiles of the players are going to be lifted for commercial opportunities . |
13 | I mean , why , why make it the pensioners every time ? |
14 | Not all of the 269 constituencies in England and Wales went to the polls every time : indeed , the average number of contests at each general election was a little under 100 . |