Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was startling to discover that a race which was identifiably mutant had laws for the suppression of mutations , and he guessed that the origin of cause and principle alike lay somewhere in the lost time of the isolation of Tarvaras from the Empire . |
| 2 | THE recovery in the housing market has come just at the right time for CALA , the Scottish house-builder , which saw interim losses nearly double to £2.85 million . |
| 3 | He can tell them in training , but they 've got to perform out there on the pitch , and probably this game has come just at the right time , after suffering a defeat like that , this is the time to get out there and show the supporters what they can really do . |
| 4 | Prices of the funds appear regularly in the Financial Times , etc . |
| 5 | Katina MacDonald , widow of one of their descendants lives there at the present time . |
| 6 | Professor Connor , in a fascinating paper on computers in classical studies , claims that computers came just at the wrong time , at a time when scholar 's interests were moving from textual studies to critical theory , women 's studies and the like . |
| 7 | There is no doubt that the removal of the child by this mother was done precipitately at the very time when the child 's future care was already under consideration by the Ontario court . |
| 8 | In such reciprocating systems , the magnitude of causal effect of X on Y or Y on X depends strictly on the exact time at which we conduct the survey . |
| 9 | ‘ The old adage is to promote harder during the difficult times , ’ admits Mr Bacon . |
| 10 | You will find the prevailing rate of interest shown daily in the Financial Times and on Prestel , and it is also displayed in all our branches . |
| 11 | The election arrived just at the right time . |
| 12 | I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared . |
| 13 | Each meeting-point was timed with as much leeway as moon and tide might allow — say an hour on occasions , although many submarine captains took bold risks in staying offshore beyond the agreed times when no recovery had been made , just in case the canoeists were late . |
| 14 | It takes perverse joy in getting hard at the wrong time , causing its owner no end of embarrassment and inconvenience . |
| 15 | we 're getting there at the right time |
| 16 | ‘ Is it totally impossible for her to have slipped home during the critical time ? ’ |
| 17 | Gas-pressure from the reaction would develop steadily over the brief time of contact , and would be greatest at the rear of the zone where the tread was about to lift off . |
| 18 | Sometimes , however , they prefer not to appear to be opposed , claiming to be generally sympathetic to the proposal , differing only on the appropriate time to bring it forward . |
| 19 | You may refuse to believe it 's happened to you : some people who 've been made redundant pretend everything 's the way it was and set off for work at the same time , then spend hours hanging around the streets , teashops or libraries until they can go home at the usual time . |
| 20 | Do come home at the agreed time ; if you 're going to be unavoidably late , ring your babysitter and let her know . |
| 21 | The pension has been transferred to the Legal and General and has been left there at the present time to grow and be managed . |
| 22 | Nevertheless the national curriculum in maths , science and English was introduced in 1989 and the teachers have complained bitterly of the short time available for training and of the meagre resources devoted to it — £47.5 million for training in content and £33.1 million for preparing teachers for the new tests and assessment . |
| 23 | So you were in in mourning just like the whole time . |
| 24 | But it is all too evident that there does not exist anywhere at the present time an active political movement which would be capable of initiating such a development , and if such a movement came into existence it would encounter immense difficulties . |
| 25 | Any objective should be realistic or , in other words , possible to achieve successfully within the forecasted time span . |
| 26 | The current values of units are published daily in the Financial Times and each year you will be sent a statement showing the progress of your Bond . |
| 27 | The prevailing rates are published daily in the Financial Times , and are also displayed on Prestel and in all our branches . |
| 28 | You scoff at me and my ‘ one ’ man friend , you who have so many , but dear girl I have learnt more in the short time of my friendship with Edward , more of the world , of men as distinct from women , and man as an individual than in all my life I have learnt before . |