Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope she goes on crying until the time comes for them to wrap a shroud round her . " |
| 2 | One has only to think of the time it took and what was necessary to develop the now largely taken-for-granted temperature scales ; an effort involving not only technological developments , but also developments in physics , thermodynamics , mathematics , and more . |
| 3 | It is of greatest significance for persons employed under fixed-term contracts where the term has not expired at the time of the sale but the purchaser does not wish to take them on , and for employees with long notice periods such as three to six months . |
| 4 | He tried not to think about the time , six months ahead , when his grant would finish and he would need to find work . |
| 5 | ‘ If you did that , then it is just about the greatest miracle a person has ever performed since the time of Jesus . ’ |
| 6 | They do n't know how to deal with the times . |
| 7 | As guests of a Maharajah in one of the great Indian Native States , we were surrounded by an opulence and splendour little changed since the time of Akbar . |
| 8 | There are , of course , an increasing number of exceptions but concerns still exist about the time involvement of clinicians and whether it represents the most valuable use of their time . |
| 9 | If the light intensity increases , the rate of turning also increases for a time , before falling back to its initial level . |
| 10 | Quite probably they have failed , or given up trying after a time . |
| 11 | It 's no good just using simple words to describe each step in that argument , if the whole argument gets so convoluted by the time you finish the listener thought , ‘ Well , I understood the bits , but I did n't understand the whole . ’ |
| 12 | The actual time of the start is difficult to arrive at , and is not important , but whatever the historical facts may be , it can be taken as fairly certain that the misuse of religion had become well established at the time of the advent of Jesus Christ . |
| 13 | I 'm sure the demand for the venue will have greatly increased by the time we return . |
| 14 | The issue must have seemed finely balanced at the time , but the troubled history of the prisons in the years that followed suggests that Butler was wrong to have accepted Cunningham 's advice that the Commission was no longer an adequate body to handle the complexity of the tasks to be performed . |
| 15 | Note Please advise at the time of booking if you wish to visit the Museum which is on site . |
| 16 | The second fact is that those crews that took off on 25/26 August 1940 from bases like Waddington , Scampton , Lindholme , Hemswell and Newmarket , ill-equipped though they were to inflict any real damage on the enemy , achieved an impact on the course of the war that none could have truly appreciated at the time . |
| 17 | All of the multifarious social duties in which he was now involved constantly encroached upon the time and energy which he wished to devote to his own writing . |
| 18 | What they perhaps did not realise at the time was that France was not prepared to compromise . |
| 19 | What I did not realise at the time , but discovered later , was that Mrs Singh had no idea that transfer next September had been suggested — she expected that it would happen straight away . |
| 20 | I did not realise at the time that this species ( or form ) is strongly dimorphic in size , with the female attaining a mere 4″ or so S.L. when fully grown . |
| 21 | But I did not think at the time to ask what they were , or their significance . |
| 22 | A statute passed to remedy what is perceived by Parliament to be a defect in the existing law may in actual operation turn out to have injurious consequences that Parliament did not anticipate at the time the statute was passed ; if it had , it would have made some provision in the Act in order to prevent them . |
| 23 | The analyses of both Cockburn and Dearlove imply a relationship between business and local government which did not exist at the time and could not easily be generated , whatever the ambitions of civil servants in the departments of central government , or of individual chief executives . |
| 24 | We did not appreciate at the time what a wrench leaving the Weir House must have been for him , nor the difficulty he had in adjusting himself to four assertive stepsons he hardly knew . |
| 25 | The court went on to record that the issues thus created had been narrowed by the acceptance on the part of the applicant 's counsel that the right of silence could not be invoked against the Director prior to the charge of the suspected person , and by counsel for the Director that if , as he submitted , the power to require information did not cease at the time of charge then it did not cease at all ( save in cases where the charge was not pursued ) until the investigation came to an end on the conviction or acquittal of the person charged . |
| 26 | I did not know at the time who had commissioned the poll , but I learned afterwards that it was the Conservative party . |
| 27 | Unlike many people , Rita did not write to The Times deploring modern standards of English . |
| 28 | A contract for the sale of unascertained goods may or may not be void because of the fact that certain goods have perished or do not exist at the time of the contract . |
| 29 | In this case , if it turns out that the goods do not exist at the time of the contract , the seller will be liable in damages to the buyer for breach of his contractual undertaking . |
| 30 | ‘ If they do not fall by the time the Commons returns on January 11 , I will put forward legislation to free up this market . |