Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead he was back in Sheffield Shield ranks looking to recover form by the time the fifth Test had begun . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Museums also helped to focus attention on the time dimension in natural history by displaying spectacular collections of fossils . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For example , of five headteachers invited to give reactions in the Times Educational Supplement ( 10 April 1981 ) , two were very positive , one somewhat neutral , and two hostile . |
| 6 | ( For example , they may wish to increase staff at a time when government is committed to reducing civil service numbers . ) |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 " . |