Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is cautious about all the hype that has surrounded Alpha from the time of announcement and warns that too much is being promised by a chip that was designed in the first instance to provide a Unix migration path for VAX users . |
| 2 | The FBI said it has ceased negotiations for the time being with Texas cult leader David Koresh , holed up with his followers in a fortified compound , to allow him to talk with his lawyer . |
| 3 | It was published shortly after I 'd taken part in a time and motion study during which I 'd spoken to the man with the clip-board and asked a few pertinent questions . |
| 4 | Instead he was back in Sheffield Shield ranks looking to recover form by the time the fifth Test had begun . |
| 5 | Knitting was a painful business for me , but it was absorbing , and I 'd lost track of the time when I heard crashing footsteps approaching and a determined bang on the door . |
| 6 | Berwick was well placed to withstand siege for a time ; but two score thousand people take a deal of feeding , and provisions began to grow short despite severe rationing . |
| 7 | Museums also helped to focus attention on the time dimension in natural history by displaying spectacular collections of fossils . |
| 8 | Yes , but you will appreciate that we begin to incur costs from the time we reserve your holiday and should you or any member of your party cancel your booking once it has been accepted , this must be in writing , signed by the person who signed the Booking Form . |
| 9 | ( For example , they may wish to increase staff at a time when government is committed to reducing civil service numbers . ) |
| 10 | I might as well have grown asparagus in the time . ’ ’ |
| 11 | She 's had help now , but what a pity , you know , then I guess people were n't so aware of what could be done , but what a pity she could n't have had help at the time . |
| 12 | Although just over half of a sample of teenage mothers in 1979 — 80 had had some kind of family planning lesson at school , only a quarter had attempted to use contraception around the time they conceived . |
| 13 | The names in lights will include Arnold Schwarzenegger in Carolco 's ‘ Terminator 2 ’ , which may have cost $90m by the time it hits the screen ; Kevin Costner as Robin Hood ; and Julia Roberts in ‘ Dying Young ’ , a Fox weepie . |
| 14 | Changes in the management team and consequent changes in investment policy which may or may not have yielded benefits at the time of the dividend increase . |
| 15 | He says that it is recorded in the that on the death of Molla Fenari , Molla Yegan was authorized to give fetvas in the time of Murad II ; but that since he did not actually rise to the office of Mufti — the actual words used are " the rank of the glorious office of fetva " , fetva being used here , a — often , to indicate the Muftilik-he will not be singled out and accorded special mention . |
| 16 | Local authorities are struggling to maintain provision at a time when they should be expanding efforts to meet the needs of this sector of the population . |
| 17 | Dad started off in statesman-like fashion , as if he were addressing the United Nations , earnestly saying he 'd come to love Eva over the time he 'd known her and so on . |
| 18 | The five death sentences , delivered on June 27 , had provoked protests at a time when the Tunisian government was already countering accusations of illegal detentions and torture in its May-June crackdown against the Nahda movement [ see p. 38215 ] . |
| 19 | She had given birth at a time when she thought miscarriages would be all she ever knew . |
| 20 | Critics accused Meciar , a former communist who had joined VPN at the time of the revolution , of using information from secret police files to intimidate political rivals and of acting unconstitutionally by making official foreign visits . |
| 21 | If all these subjects had had endometriosis at the time of removal the rate in current and recent users would rise to 0.42 per 1000 woman years ( from 0.22 ) and the relative risk would be non-significant at 0.7 ( from 0.4 ) . |
| 22 | The victim had become owner at the time of the deception . |
| 23 | When Two Left Feet was eventually released , critics pointed out that it had become dated , but there was general praise for the performances of Crawford and his two female co-stars , all of whom had been unknown when they made the film but had become names by the time it was shown in cinemas . |
| 24 | The 67 children who had reached maturity at the time of this study tended to have been diagnosed earlier in the decade than those still growing . |
| 25 | Despite the high prevalence of growth impairment , the subset of childen who had reached maturity by the time of the study ( n=67 ) nevertheless maintained their height centile . |
| 26 | This report is about 174 children ≤4 years of age with idiopathic chronic constipation who were 6 years and older and had entered school at the time of follow up in May 1991 . |
| 27 | The magazine had started publication at a time when the work of Lewis , Joyce , Pound and Eliot himself was actively challenging the old standards and values of English literary culture . |
| 28 | Over the years , as a young detective he had lost weight at a time when a lot of men put it on , and now looked thin and wiry , reproducing in himself , as he half knew , the family look . |
| 29 | ‘ He sent a message to the governor explaining that the thefts continued to take place at a time when the firm had transferred me to England for a period of six months . |
| 30 | On Feb. 20 , 1990 , the MRG and the Association of Democrats ( Association des démocrates — a heterogeneous grouping of leading centrist personalities from which the left sought to gain support at the time of the 1988 presidential elections ) announced the conclusion of an agreement aiming to develop " the second force within the presidential majority " . |