Example sentences of "and the time [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The facts to be assumed by the House of Lords for the purposes of the appeal were that Shell and others had , in breach of the sanctions order , covertly supplied Southern Rhodesia with oil by other means and thereby prolonged the state of illegal independence and the time during which Lonrho 's pipeline was out of use .
2 The requirement for abstinence after menstruation and the time for resuming relations correspond precisely to the natural tides of a woman 's sexual desire .
3 The conventional type of bridge was obviously an impossibility under war condition , owing to the necessity to survey the site , and the time for its provision .
4 To the people of Teotihuacan these celestial events signalled the onset of rains and the time for crop planting and probably other important ceremonies .
5 A good system for storing electricity will not become possible before 1995 , Meanwhile , the date for artificial intelligence is shunted back 20 years to 2020 and the time for weather control is 2030 instead of 2015 , All kinds of obstacles , not so much technological as human and economic , have interfered with the 1962 predictions , as with many others that people have made with seemingly unimpeachable authority over the past 50 years .
6 But the situation was now so critical , and the time for restoring confidence so short , that , very reluctantly , I agreed that each Party must sink its political programme temporarily and combine to pursue an economic policy to save the nation from bankruptcy .
7 Firstly , the size of capacitor is dictated by the phase current and the time for which " voltage-boosting " is needed ; large phase currents and long boost times lead to large capacitor values .
8 It is not unusual therefore for the contract expressly to deal with the time for payment and the time for delivery but to be silent about the time of the transfer of property .
9 The RISC hypothesis is that by reducing the instruction set one can design an architecture which reduces the design time , number of design errors , and the time for individual instructions .
10 This date is particularly important now , because it fixes the date upon which automatic directions apply in most personal injury actions and the time for discovery in all actions .
11 The time limit for an application for interim payment is any time after the plaintiff has served his writ and the time for acknowledgement of service has expired .
12 For years , he had pitted himself against it , aware that it would mean the time for worrying about the future was over and the time for action had arrived .
13 The tolls , which varied with the level of congestion and the time of day , were displayed on road-side signs .
14 The left-hand pages bore a coloured photograph of some English beauty spot with an appropriate verse , both for the picture and the time of year , while the right-hand pages were each divided into seven sections .
15 The carrier is liable for the total of partial loss of the goods and for damage thereto from the time of taking over the goods and the time of delivery .
16 The quality of an essential oil depends on a number of different interacting factors : soil conditions , climate , altitude and the time of harvesting — which is vital .
17 The one and only good thing that fluoridation has done is to provide an illustration of the urgent need for legislation to prevent the use of public money , the machinery of government , and the time of public servants for promoting private interests at the public 's expense .
18 Yet another critical factor is the length of time children actually spend in class and the time of day they are there .
19 Ray Stewart of Jamaica had run the race of his life and the time of his life to win the bronze medal .
20 Study the route first when going by train ; check the time at which you should arrive at various stations and the time of arrival at destination .
21 Start off with time in hand so that you can read notices and indicators in a calm state of mind ; buy your ticket in advance ; know exactly when you have to change and the time of the connections .
22 If he was to die in perfect innocence , could the effects of the fall be reversed and the time of their dominion be over ?
23 On further thought it is soon evident that it is not as easy as that , because the same people are not at church every week , some come more than once on Sunday and will , therefore , be counted twice , and there is an attendance fluctuation depending on the state of the weather and the time of year !
24 She read the star 's altitude off the sextant 's micrometer , and I dutifully jotted down the numbers and the time of day for her .
25 Our lodges range from £2,185 to £17,200 depending on the size and the time of year you buy .
26 Beside it a grime encrusted board gave the name and address of the parish priest and the time of services , but there was nothing else to suggest that the door was ever opened .
27 I 'd lay odds that the person responsible is an insider , a pretty high-up insider with free access to secret information , such as closely guarded secrets as to the composition of the cargo , the destination and the time of take-off and arrival .
28 The time ends with the coming of Chaos and the time of violence that then ensued .
29 None received antibiotics or antiviral agents between radiotherapy and the time of sampling .
30 Of all the varieties of patronage at the disposal of Scottish politicians , the most useful were those connected with taxation , for , quite apart from the undeniable opportunities for profit which might accrue to an official charged with the collection of public revenues , through his possession of such monies between the time of collection and the time of accounting for the receipts , the ability to increase or moderate one 's zeal was in itself a valuable asset for officers who were themselves often intimately involved in the political and social life of their communities .
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