Example sentences of "time [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | In 1944 , under the impetus of a wave of strikes in the mines , the British Trotskyist movement was united for the first time as the Revolutionary Communist Party , anticipating the imminent collapse of capitalism in the West and Stalinism in Russia . |
2 | Given that private conversations between journalists and politicians take place all the time as the former seek their exclusives and the latter seek to further their policies or careers ( or to wreck other people 's ) , it is strangely perverse to ignore perhaps the most authoritative off-the-record source of all , Mr Bernard Ingham . |
3 | Germany outstripped Britain for the first time as the largest contributor last year . |
4 | Later Jed had lost all sense of time as the external heart slowly pumped a solution of formaldehyde into the dead woman 's body , as the dead woman 's body began to blush . |
5 | time as the other one . |
6 | The 17th Century Wide Work or New Work is separated from the White Work ( known by this time as the Deep or Old Mine ) by a steeply inclined bed of well cleaved ashes and tuffs which , in places , have been found suitable for roofing slate . |
7 | This is illustrated in Fig. 4.1 where it is assumed that wage offers increase over time as the individual searches . |
8 | At the outset , it was decided to use direct observation of how clients spent their time as the principal measure of effectiveness . |
9 | However , if our policies once allow for the possibility of the human race existing for ever , or into the indefinite future , one can take average happiness over all future time as the effective goal , even from the totalistic point of view , since the contribution to quantity of happiness from population size will anyway be maximal . |
10 | Perhaps the decision to accept covered pitches in the Championship in 1981 will be seen in time as the inevitable pre-cursor to the preference now for four-day games . |
11 | It is , of course , possible to explain the relatively confused state of party cultural policy at this time as the inevitable consequence of the leadership 's lack of interest in cultural matters . |
12 | Thus competition is singled out for the first time as the chosen mechanism for ensuring the public interest . |
13 | Morrissey is needed , not as an ombudsman , or a figure of the eighties , but as a horrified figure against the eighties , who has turned his back on the march of pop time as the last keeper of the sanctuary of self-pity , apartness , exile ’ ( David Stubbs ) . |
14 | ‘ This train wo n't leave on time as the last two did , and we 'll miss the ferry . ’ |
15 | Plotinus also advanced beyond Plato by modifying the latter 's famous metaphor of time as the moving image of eternity , since he was more concerned to stress the difference between , rather than the resemblance of , time and eternity . |
16 | This , in turn , was part of what was seen at the time as the natural extension of scientific and technological principles from their successful application to the material and animal world to apply to human beings themselves . |
17 | The indexing changes gradually with time as the natural language of the documents covered by the index evolves . |
18 | Conversely , if the right hemisphere can not perform the task at all but has to send the probe stimulus to the left hemisphere for a comparison with memory items then the relative disadvantage in reaction time for the right hemisphere should be constant regardless of the size of the memory set . |
19 | Surely it is time for the present Home Secretary — who started all this in Cabinet , along with the right hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) — to apologise . |
20 | ‘ I 'd feel sorry for you , but I 'm afraid I do n't have much time for the poor little rich girl syndrome . |
21 | But he wo n't take anyone on full time for the simple fact that just takes one guy off the dole and and makes his life good . |
22 | Time for the famous Tailpiece competition . |
23 | Come to think of it , if the bus had started out from NZ at the start of last season , it could just about have delivered everyone to Southampton in time for the famous Away Win . |
24 | It is a matter of deep regret that the Department of Social Security failed to provide copies of the instruments in time for the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments to consider them and report to the House . |
25 | The film was responsible at the time for the tremendous popularity of the bar and , whenever Yates or Dustin went into it , they were sent over a bottle of champagne by the management . |
26 | There they will have seen the steepest acceleration graph we have ever plotted , with it 0–100mph time of only 14secs and an elapsed time for the standing quarter-mile of 13.9secs . ’ |
27 | Finally , and in time for the 1979 — 80 visit , a Dean was elected : Brian Clark from the Department of Mathematics , Statistics and Computing . |
28 | The Smiths , though , have little time for the live and let live view . |
29 | And then , bang , crash , oh dear , it was time for the regional franchises to be renewed . |
30 | He has no time for the factory-made products of China , Pakistan or Morocco . |