Example sentences of "the [noun sg] that time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is indeed the case that time is used least economically in those subjects to which most time is allocated ( see Table 4.1 ) , should not schools , LEAs ( and indeed the NCC and DES ) took afresh at their assumptions about how much time these subjects ( that is , the National Curriculum core subjects ) really need ? |
| 2 | I fucked you once — on the stairs , remember ? — when Alec blacked out in the kitchen that time . |
| 3 | Photographs usually sustained the illusion that time could briefly be halted , but in this case … |
| 4 | Sometimes the court lays down a prima facie assumption applicable to a certain kind of provision ( eg the rule that time is not of the essence of a rent review timetable ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Yeah , and a long memory ; I still have n't forgiven you for not trying to rescue me on the ice that time . ’ |
| 6 | The parent warns the child that time out will be used if he or she does not do as he or she is told . |
| 7 | When Bobby Moore — still trim , still neat , the Mod That Time Forgot — stepped forward to unveil the portrait , Bobby Charlton was shown to be wearing a halo — a luminous skidmark , or slather in the paint , lighting the night sky above his head . |
| 8 | CATHERINE It was because of her I went to the head that time at the school . |
| 9 | He was restless , impatient in the knowledge that time was limited . |
| 10 | The drinking session that followed stretched until 4.00 am ; the players disproving the theory that time and tide wait for no man . |
| 11 | ‘ Tong Chou , ’ he said , using the pseudonym he had used in the Plantation that time ; knowing that if they checked the records they would find an entry there under that name and a face to match his face . |
| 12 | It was n't so much the ageing process itself that sent my spirits plummeting — although greying hair and wrinkles were n't exactly adding to my self-esteem — as the realisation that time is marching on and I had better not waste a moment of it . |
| 13 | But I still see you by the bed that time . |
| 14 | Training within the home in an informal ‘ conference ’ situation greatly benefits the development of the awareness that time to listen is one of the greatest gifts we give to those we love . |
| 15 | Those with no stomach for sentimentality should leave this page now and turn instead to Sean O'Hagan 's report on Hothouse Flowers and the hippies of Dublin ( the City That Time Forgot ) , to Cynthia Rose 's penetrating profile of American TV megastar Arsenio Hall , or to the exclusive on-set report on the making of the Madonna/Warren Beatty film , Dick Tracy . |
| 16 | In THE CITY THAT TIME FORGOT there is little hip hop , house or club culture . |
| 17 | A permanent legacy of his theory of time is the idea that time and the universe are inseparable . |
| 18 | Plato 's conclusion that time is actually produced by the universe was not accepted by Aristotle ( 384–322 BC ) , who rejected the idea that time can be identified with any form of motion or change . |
| 19 | The idea that time may be dramatically distorted in dreaming , or even reversed , was given support in 1861 in Maury 's book Sleep and Dreams . |
| 20 | Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning , probably because it smacks of divine intervention . |
| 21 | One-off dramatisations inevitably build around a central series of events which may be true to life in what they depict , but false in the way that time is telescoped ; in other words , they are played out in dramatic , not real time . |
| 22 | Around this charming place lingers a vague air of ‘ the land that time forgot ’ , an atmosphere which could n't be further from nearby Birchens , with its polished horrors and hordes . |
| 23 | Today Baidoa 's main street resembles the land that time forgot . |
| 24 | Did you see that ? he nearly shot himself in the butt that time did n't he ? |
| 25 | About the school that time ? |
| 26 | Turnbull explains through the interpreter that time is short ; it is late ; there is a great war on with the Germans . |
| 27 | We did n't go on the motorbike that time , since Darlington was rather a long way and the general unreliability of the machine argued against using it . |
| 28 | If it is not clear that time is of the essence of a particular procedural provision , the presumption that time is not of the essence will apply ( Panavia Air Cargo Ltd v Southend-on-Sea BC [ 1988 ] 1 EGLR 124 ) . |