Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [prep] the time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key to a successful prosecution is proving that at the time of the offence the children understood the seriousness of what they were doing and were not simply behaving mischievously . |
| 2 | Pliny the Elder , writing in the later first century AD , says that about the time of Vulso 's triumph statues of wood and terracotta ceased to be used at Rome and were replaced by luxuria from Asia Minor . |
| 3 | I hope that in the time of the consultation they actually begin to take on board the fact that we 're talking about human beings . |
| 4 | I would therefore expect that at the time of the next recession , markets will be much less vulnerable to cost-cutting . |
| 5 | It might be said that at the time of the signing of the document he was in no position to resist both the seizure of all his goods under a distress and the forfeiture of his lease with no practical possibility of relief . |
| 6 | ‘ It is said that in the time of Shang they would take a tortoise shell and cover it with ink , then throw it into a fire . |
| 7 | There is evidence to suggest that by the time of Euclid these observations were occurring in a cone of vision . |
| 8 | Lambarde writing here at Halling in 1596 when he revised his Perambulation of Kent , states that at the time of the Charter there were in Kent more kings than one , going on to state that " by occassion of this old Charter , I am afraid from the history of Halling I find none other report in writing " . |
| 9 | As seen above , for example , there appear to have been two " regular " as distinct from any possible " ceremonial " investitures , apparently called and defined just below — while Abdurrahman Efendi was Rumeli kazasker ( 958–64/1551 7 ) , namely in 959 and 963 ; and Ata'i states that in the time of his successor , Molla Hamid ( Hamid ) , Rumeli kazasker from 964/1557 to 974/5566 , were decreed in Dhu " l-Hijja 968/August-September 1561 and in Sha'ban 973/March 1566 : thus the period 958 to 974 saw in 959 , 963 , 968 , and 973 . |
| 10 | For present purposes it is sufficient to note that the expression embraces the period of two years prior to the onset of insolvency in the case of transactions at an undervalue and of preferences given to a person connected with the company , provided that at the time of the transaction the company was unable to pay its debts or it became unable to pay its debts by reason of the transaction . |
| 11 | It is the users responsibility to ensure that at the time of the next offline run , the specified terminal is connected and not logged in — the offline system will not allocate a terminal to itself if it is already allocated to another VAX/VMS process . |
| 12 | We note that at the time of going to press a restructuring of the advisory service is under consideration ( Leeds City Council 1991c ) . |
| 13 | It can happen that at the time of the sale the seller is not the owner ( and thus is in breach of the condition in section 12 ) but that he subsequently obtains that ownership , e. g. by buying the goods from their owner . |
| 14 | Mr Lightman said that at the time of the libel trial the defence had no idea that this payment had been made . |
| 15 | Yesterday , the advocate-depute , Elizabeth Jarvie , said that at the time of the incident , the line would have been used by freight trains carrying petroleum products from Grangemouth as well as by the London sleeper . |
| 16 | It is difficult to assess the number of garbage pickers , because this fluctuates seasonally and because they are not really enumerated in official statistics , but Birkbeck estimates that at the time of the study , there were between 1,200 and 1,700 garbage pickers in Cali . |
| 17 | At the second appeal Murphy 's conviction was quashed , a new witness coming forward to say that at the time of the murder in Luton he had seen Murphy in a London street . |
| 18 | It is fair to say that by the time of the establishment of OEEC progress in Benelux had more or less ground to a halt . |
| 19 | He acknowledges his indebtedness to Tolstoy and maintains that at the time of reading the book he was passing through a period of doubt and scepticism . |
| 20 | In bald form , Middlemas argues that around the time of the First World War the nineteenth-century British political system had broken down under the weight of the antagonism and conflicts in industrial society . |
| 21 | In fact , the evidence suggests that at the time of the great debates over defence and the Middle East in 1946 Britain had a realistic view of Soviet intentions in this area — that they fundamentally consisted in a determination to secure access to oil concessions in northern Iran . |
| 22 | Ward 's counsel also suggested that at the time of her original trial large amounts of vital evidence had not been passed on to the defence . |