Example sentences of "of the time of " in BNC.

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1 McCabe and Sutcliffe ( 1978 ) have shown how only 6 per cent of the time of patrol police is occupied with incidents defined as ‘ criminal ’ .
2 The situation will only improve if first , recipient governments are able to allocate a higher proportion of the time of capable civil servants to the allocation of in-coming aid ; second , if donor governments and agencies dovetail their country lending programmes more closely with the medium-term budgetary plans of the recipient countries ; and third , if recipient governments are more careful in interpreting the priorities of their own small farmers and other small-scale producers .
3 Also included is a plot of the time of peak of body temperature on successive days .
4 ‘ But as for now , sir , we can proceed with our investigations without taking any more of the time of either of you two gentlemen , for the present . ’
5 The time of germination , flowering , fruiting , or leaf-fall and general senescence , may be determined by day length — for day length , after all , is a much more reliable indicator of the time of year than temperature is , for example .
6 From the antechamber of the Czech Chancellery a spiral staircase leads to the early 16C hall of the Court Chancellery which contains original furniture of the time of Rudolf Il .
7 It is for only about two days either side of the time of ovulation that fertilization and conception can take place .
8 I at once seized my astrolabe and made a careful note of the time of full eclipse , which was a little more than three-quarters of an hour after the eleventh hour of the night .
9 This was a period of rapid development in the technology and tactics of warfare ; gone were the Frankish troops of the time of Charlemagne , who were expected to be riders , foot soldiers , swordsmen , spearsmen and archers all at once .
10 Germany and Spain were eventually to become major producers of armour : within a century or so of the time of Barbarossa some of the most famous makers of armour were German , while Cologne became renowned for its swords .
11 The cost of all significant community services provided for each of the clients ( including day hospitals and day centres ) has been included , plus of course the time of support workers and a proportion of the time of the development officers ( see Appendix IV ) .
12 The cost of community care for action sample clients is of course higher than for people in the control samples because the cost of support worker time plus a proportion of the time of the development officers was included in the assessment of community service costs at the time of second and third assessments .
13 As the days pass in this unfamiliar environment , some patients ( particularly those with deficient vision and hearing , and those who for one reason or another do not read a daily newspaper ) can lose track of the time of day , the day of the week and the day of the month .
14 of the time of day ?
15 To rush in and quantify a situation which one does not understand is wasteful of the time of both researchers and informants .
16 For example , within eighteen months of the time of writing , managers must implement the complex provisions of two White Papers , as well as their local plans for service provision and development within tight financial disciplines .
17 No regular warning was given to students of the time of operations .
18 With dark hair and moustache , he was always well dressed , regardless of the time of day .
19 It 's cheap , cheerful and trashy but on another level it 's a well focused snapshot of the time of social change , emancipation and free love .
20 Sulgrave Manor is a superb example of a modest manor house and garden of the time of Shakespeare , and was home to the ancestors of George Washington .
21 Of the time of the House devoted to Public Bills , much the greater part in turn is devoted to Government Bills , i.e. Bills promoted by the government of the day , as opposed to those promoted by private Members .
22 It does not do so ; standing orders recognise this position of dominance and provide for the devotion of most of the time of the House of government business , including Bills .
23 ‘ Establishment ’ today means very little outside the sphere of the purely formal and ceremonial and the devotion of the time of Parliament to the tedious and time-consuming task of regulating the affairs of the Church of England has long been recognised as anachronistic .
24 When payment is received the supplier should usually then issue a tax invoice within 30 days of the time of supply if the client is a taxable person ( reg 12(1) and ( 5 ) ) .
25 more economical , particularly in its use of the time of volunteer members ;
26 Note that justices should ask for evidence of the time of sunset and sunrise where the exact time is in question and that this offence can be committed at any time .
27 With its doublet parable of the dragnet , it tells of the time of final judgment when , at the end of time , the
28 1979 ; Wells 1981 ) have reported that the amount of talk by children and their caretakers varies , both in respect of the time of day ( more talk first thing in the morning and early afternoon ) and as a function of their familiarity with the process of being recorded ( less talk on the first day , compared with subsequent days ) .
29 Sport does occupy a great chunk of the time of black schoolkids and the attention they give it is directly related to the rewards it brings .
30 This was made even more pressing through the nineteenth century by the growth of a sharper historical awareness , by the general influence in the intellectual culture of the time of the ideas of evolution and progress , and by the advances made in historical study of the Bible and past history in general .
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