Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was blindfolded for part of the time , which had the effect of making him ‘ look inside of himself ’ and he admitted that he was not ready for the experience and some of the discoveries he made . |
| 2 | He had been appearing on television at the time . |
| 3 | Although one looks at reasonableness at the time the agreement is entered into , it is only practical also to take into account the legitimate expectations of the parties at that time regarding the future , and what is reasonably foreseeable . |
| 4 | Sixteen students were not looking for work at the time of the survey . |
| 5 | He was on the run for forty-three days , sheltering for part of the time in a cornfield , being fed occasionally by sympathetic French farmers , but was hunted down and sent to captivity in Belgium . |
| 6 | Bobby Lavender came of age at the time the police had just crushed the last Black Panthers political group and new non-political gangs were beginning . |
| 7 | It seemed like fate at the time — as though I were specially meant to meet him . |
| 8 | BRACKEN HOUSE , THE former home of the Financial Times , came under threat at the time ministers were considering the introduction of the Thirty Year Rule on listing ( see page 149 ) , and probably played a major part in securing the greater protection for post-war buildings of excellence that SAVE had sought for so long . |
| 9 | He acquiesced in the attempt of Lady Jane Grey [ q.v. ] to seize the throne from Mary , and came under suspicion at the time of the rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyatt [ q.v. ] , but within a few weeks was back at his duties . |
| 10 | Sara 's legs were trembling with exhaustion by the time she reached the stables . |
| 11 | Both taxes came into operation at the time when the land and property boom turned into a slump . |
| 12 | One of the cases also incidentally raises the question of whether , and to what extent , it may be desirable to have regard to what was said in Parliament at the time when the legislation was under discussion . |
| 13 | It does indeed seem that the taboo on wives working was still operating among the generation that came to maturity at the time of the Great War . |
| 14 | As are considerations that go a step beyond them , such as a policeman 's attitude to his wife and family ( he is stopped from going off duty at the time his wife expects : what will be her reaction ? ) or an unmarried policeman 's love life , or for that matter the love life of a policeman who is cheating on his wife . |
| 15 | Because Mr. Thorpe resides for part of the time in London , he decided to try another Health Authority . |
| 16 | The technique also fails if the signal concerned extends through all time because , where a is positive , grows without limit as the time t becomes more negative . |
| 17 | It was held that no claim could be brought against the defendant for failing to load because the contract had been frustrated by illegality before the time for loading . |
| 18 | Those who had been in the Republican Armed Forces during the war were automatically placed under arrest at the time of the Republican surrender in April 1936 , while police , Civil Guards and Falangist agents hounded those they suspected of pro-Republican sympathies . |
| 19 | His dream of uniting Germany and Italy was based in reality from the time of his marriage to Constance , heiress to the kingdom of Sicily , whose kings ruled over both the island and the southern part of Italy known as the Regno . |
| 20 | The following categorical variables were used : father 's unemployment ( yes , no , or not known ) ; father 's social class ( non-manual , skilled manual , semiskilled and unskilled manual , and not known ) ; one parent in the household ( no , yes , not known ) ; mother 's age at child 's birth ( <20 , 20–23 , 24–27 , 28–31 , >32 , and not known ) ; mother 's education ( primary education , secondary education , further education , and university education ) ; number of children ( one , two , three , four , five or more , and not known ) ; maternal smoking in pregnancy ( no , yes , not known ) ; total number cigarettes smoked at home at the time of the survey ( 0 , 1–4 , 5–14 , 15–24 , 25 or more , and not known ) ; free school meals ( free , not free , not taken , not known if free , and not known ) ; overcrowding ( <1.25 people per room , >=1.25; people per room , not known ) ; maternal and paternal asthma ( no , yes , not known ) ; and study areas ( 27 areas for the respiratory illness analyses and 17 for the lung function analyses ) . |
| 21 | Existing trade agreements between East Germany and east European countries ( especially the Soviet Union ) would have to remain in place for the time being , but imports under these agreements would have to be confined to the territory of East Germany . |
| 22 | Very little was known about mucus at the time . |
| 23 | If the buses came as far as Clifton Road it would be alright but any further away and people would have practically walked into town by the time they got to the nearest bus stop . ’ |
| 24 | Where the tenant 's business includes a substantial number of transactions in which he gives credit to his customers the draftsman will have to consider whether the amount of the transaction should be brought into account at the time of the transaction or at the time of payment ; whether interest payments are to be included in the calculation of turnover and whether the tenant is to have an allowance for bad debts . |
| 25 | The open-ended commitment to a vastly expensive discretionary scheme for criminal injuries compensation , sanctioned by statute in 1988 but not yet brought into force at the time of writing , was a particular Treasury bête noire , leading to pressure to cut back on other things if Ministers maintained that it was politically unacceptable to curtail the cost . |
| 26 | At the same time , cars were numbered in accordance with the time they set off so the thousands of spectators that lined the route could get some indication who was leading . |
| 27 | It is regarded as worthy of Christians to feed the starving ; to desist from war during the time of our dear Lord 's Nativity . ’ |
| 28 | The name is believed to be derived from a personal name Sighel or Signup , and the second part from the thorn bushes which grew in abundance at the time , and dates possibly from the 7th century . |
| 29 | I am , I was born in Essex , in in hospital and my family all come from Essex , and I was brought up in Upminster and I was very fortunate in that I was born into a christian home and I had christian parents and christian grandparents and christian aunts and uncles and I went to church from the time I was about two or three weeks old . |
| 30 | James had gone to bed by the time he arrived , but the travel-stained messenger was admitted and graciously allowed to convey the news . |