Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis 's manager , Frank Maloney , admitted : ‘ We have had to cancel the fight for the time being . |
| 2 | This is probably a good idea , but it means that you may never know if the food you avoided was indeed the guilty party , because the child is likely to have outgrown the sensitivity by the time the food is eaten again . |
| 3 | Even so , given the equipment of the time it was good going . |
| 4 | We will be asked why , given the evidence of the time , when EFTA and the east European countries were queueing up to join the tighter Community that was being proposed , we allowed ourselves to be left outside . |
| 5 | I therefore wrote to express the hope that I had not appeared to expect him to intervene ; that I did not necessarily disagree with what he said ; and that my underlying feeling was that the Baldwin government , though apparently trying to get rid of a bad king , might damage the monarchy at a time when a great international crisis seemed to be upon us . |
| 6 | US intelligence sources , who revealed the deal at a time which coincided with a visit to the USA by Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir ( see p. 36599 ) , alleged that Libyan pilots were receiving training in the Soviet Union to fly the planes and that a Libyan Il-76 transport plane was being converted into a refuelling tanker . |
| 7 | Detail briefly the step-by-step procedure of handling the booking from the time the enquiry is made to the departure of the guests . |
| 8 | This period unfortunately does not cover the whole of the time during which the Lift was in operation . |
| 9 | If completion accounts are required , it is common practice to require the relevant accountants to agree the apportionment at the time they agree the completion statement as the price will not be finalised at the time of contract . |
| 10 | 3.2 Should the Company be prevented for any reason whatsoever from completing the Work in the time agreed in Schedule I then the Publisher after giving the Company reasonable notice may commission the completion of the Work by another writer on terms that the Publisher shall consider fair to all parties and the terms in Schedule II shall be altered accordingly or the Publisher may withdraw from the Agreement . |
| 11 | In 1973 , Henry Kissinger got the prize at the time he was implicated in the blanket bombing of Cambodia . |
| 12 | They appeared in law school classrooms and law review articles , then as lawyers ' arguments in particular cases at law , then as judicial arguments in dissenting opinions explaining why the majority opinion , reflecting the orthodoxy of the time , was unsatisfactory , then as the opinions of the majority in a growing number of cases , and then as propositions no longer mentioned because they went without saying . |
| 13 | I always make the statement at the time — as I did last Thursday — based on the information available to me and on the right process for the House for the following week . |
| 14 | Not seeing the significance at the time of the two articles , or of the prong ( pitchfork ) and shovel that followed them , the two boys finished their frugal breakfast and set out upon their chores . |
| 15 | exercise some option to , to switch it over and I did n't need the cash at the time |
| 16 | He had expected the sack at the time , but strangely enough he had had more than his share of work from that day on . |
| 17 | Talk of Sebastian , but not the financial problem he had left Leith with , occupied the remainder of the time until they had finished their meal . |
| 18 | Perhaps in an attempt to redress the balance around the time of the recent franchise re-application , Scottish Television determined to duplicate its international success with Taggart by setting a similar-format drama series in Edinburgh . |
| 19 | A pamphlet published by the American Library Association , Patrons are people : how to be a model librarian , originally Published in 1945 ad revised in 1956 , illustrates the approach of the time : ‘ Whether six or sixty , a person is a person and should be treated as such , so the Model Librarian avers . |
| 20 | John Young was elected the first honorary Director , and the BDA agreed to provide the administration for the time being . |
| 21 | Grimma led the rescue party into the office and listened while Sacco , with many interruptions , recounted the adventure from the time Dorcas , out of sudden terror , had jumped out of the truck and had been carried off the rails just before the train arrived . |
| 22 | ( c ) If the victim wants the thing during the time when the accused has dishonestly borrowed it , he can not use it , whether or not the accused intends permanently to deprive . |
| 23 | Dare one hope that the Murrey Report will have alleviated the situation by the time these words are read ? |
| 24 | One watch succeeded another through the day , though how the rabbits judged the passing of the time is something that civilized human beings have lost the power to feel . |
| 25 | The Building Societies Association assured the Government at the time that , when the rule was introduced , there would be no reason to expect people to lose their homes as a result and they have not done so . |
| 26 | If you are using the divider to separate cichlids or other particularly aggressive fish , it 's wise to leave it in place for a couple of weeks and then only remove the divider at a time when you are likely to be around if trouble occurs . |
| 27 | I was quite surprised , er during the summer I went to my grandson 's school fete and they had a hot air balloon demonstration there and this er , this car turned up with a trailer on the back with , I du n no , probably some name , hot air balloon name on the trailer , I thought oh yes he 's gon na show us how to inflate it and i I was quite amazed from the time he unpacked the balloon to the time it actually took off was only ten minutes . |
| 28 | The kanun , included in a late seventeenth-century anthology ( 1095/1684 ) , purports to reflect the practice of the time of Suleyman , but that the kanun in the form published by Uzuncarsili dates from Suleyman 's time must be rejected on the grounds both that many of the kadiliks mentioned did not attain mevleviyet status until the late sixteenth or seventeenth centuries and that two of them Kandiye ( Candia ) and Kamanice ( Kamenets-Podolskiy ) — did not come into Ottoman hands until 1080/ 1669 and 1083/1672 respectively . |
| 29 | Mrs de Crespigny ( ‘ Nora Champion de Crespigny is my full name ’ ) wrote to the effect that she had been passing the lounge at the time , and was a witness , if not to the actual assault , then to Mrs Wilikins 's evident distress . |
| 30 | Nor do I mean that it bears the imprint of the time when it arose . |