Example sentences of "to the [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 For stepping rates where the phase is only excited for a time similar to the winding time constant , however , the wave form [ Fig.5 .2(b) ] is considerably distorted by the nearly exponential rise and decay of the phase current .
2 If the motor is to operate at higher speeds the static torque/rotor position characteristics are no longer a reliable guide , because they do not account for distortion of the current waveform due to the winding time constant and motional voltage .
3 By the time that you were ready to go up into Standard Three , you had to be proficient to the twelve times table but it did not stop there for later on you had measurement , area , weight and many others .
4 The aim was to get as close as possible to the real time setting while falling short of the search itself .
5 When one goes back to the real time in which we live , however , there will still appear to be singularities .
6 The impurity is not confined to the actual time of bleeding , but continues for seven days beyond the last sign of vaginal blood , thus effectively confining women to this state of impurity for twelve to fifteen days of the month .
7 So it was a case there , and course at the end of the day you rolled the little roll up , put elastic round and stood them up in a file and they stood there like little soldiers and you could always go back to the actual time , sometimes you found a man had n't re erm signed on , he 'd just gone and joined his bus up in town centre , well you , that was er subject of another letter .
8 Beryl Smith again drew attention to the strenuous time our trainers have , called upon as they are to travel so far and having to tackle what seems to be a non-stop training programme .
9 chasing back to the local paper to the approximate time that we think they died see if they report enough about them .
10 And thirdly , it has a very real er value in that , in going for er certification , we are actually putting checks and procedures in place which will help to ensure that what we do is the right price , is to the right time and is the right product .
11 When this does not hold , additional full revolutions will be added to the total time because the next record to be processed will be missed , and a further revolution or revolutions will be required before it is available once more .
12 He handed on the correspondence between himself and the Bishops to the Irish Times , the recognized liberal and ‘ protestant ’ newspaper of the republic .
13 A priest from County Galway , in a letter to the Irish Times , informed that Dr Enda McDonagh , a noted Roman catholic moral theologian , had told priests of the Tuam archdiocese in January that it was possible to make a distinction between the church 's teaching on the ideal of marriage and divorce as a civil right .
14 He also instructed his parish priests in a letter , leaked to the Irish Times , to have the bishops pastoral Marriage , the Family and Divorce distributed to every home in the archdiocese along with special bidding prayers invoking divine protection for marriages and the guidance of Holy Spirit ‘ at this critical time of decision for families and our country ’ ( Irish Times , 17 May 1986 ) .
15 Sotheby 's confirmed to the Irish Times that some of this material was purchased through their rooms .
16 I travelled up from Kings Cross with Sidney , Daryl Bligh of the Graphic , K. B. D. Clarke of the Times , ‘ Tibby ’ Tisdale of the News , Stanford Roberts , of course , and I think we had Norton Malley with us , who would at that time I suppose have been on the Morning Post , though he later went back to the Irish Times .
17 Now bring it back to the modern time of the five day week , what is two fifths , or what are two fifths of the wage ?
18 Similarly if his host says ‘ Come early ’ , having just invited him for eight o'clock , he will interpret ‘ early ’ with respect to the last-mentioned time , rather than to some previously mentioned time .
19 All these contributions and more , in addition to the required time , must be forthcoming if the committees and interfaces are in fact to produce the close coupling and co-ordinated collaboration these firms need .
20 Every Sunday I also contributed a religious meditation to the New Times of Burma under the heading ‘ Thought for Today ’ , following on a Buddhist meditation for the preceding day .
21 Yet the Chicago School of Urban Sociology was attempting a specifically ‘ urban ’ theory of social change ; one applicable to the new times of a modernising , industrialising society .
22 Knowledge of this fact , together with understanding some properties of our body clock , will enable us to promote adjustment of our clock to the new time zone and so reduce the difficulties of jet-lag .
23 Advice on time-zone transitions depends very much upon the kind of journey being made , so we consider the following possibilities : • A flight crossing only a few ( one or two ) time zones ; • A flight crossing several time zones , ( to the west or east ) and when the stop-over , before returning home , is short ; • A flight crossing several time zones to the west where there is sufficient time and need for adjustment to the new time zone ; • A flight as in the last example , but to the east .
24 If your stay is longer , then you can attempt to promote adjustment of your body to the new time zone .
25 Can you begin to adjust your life-style to the new time zone in the days immediately before departure ?
26 Physical activity and natural light Light exercise and brisk walks taken at your accustomed time by the new local time will help to adjust you to the new time zone and to make you feel ready for sleep at bedtime .
27 Social activities Provided that they do not stop you going to bed at the proper time , social activities are a very good way of adjusting to the new time zone , particularly if they enable you to spend time out-of-doors in natural daylight at the times recommended in Table 11.2 .
28 In the future , it might be possible for us to reset our body clock to the new time zone quickly , by taking a pill containing melatonin at the appropriate time of day .
29 Because several tutors failed to keep to the new time table for applications the Board has decided that they will have to revert to the original dates for the Written Examination entries .
30 You belong to the good times … there were some had to be .
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