Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] [prep] the time " in BNC.

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1 Fifteen li north of Tongjiang , at the edge of the T'ang 's great estate , were the ruins of an ancient Buddhist monastery that dated from the time of the great Sung dynasty .
2 In that case her relatives would have enquired for her , raised a hue and cry at the time of the accident . ’
3 I thought that maybe Elsie went under finally sickened and stifled by the righteous attitudes that prevailed at the time .
4 The amount of surplus ACT included in the claim must be capable of being determined by reference to circumstances that existed at the time of the claim ( see Proctor & Gamble Ltd v Taylerson ( 1990 ) STC 624 ) .
5 It would he a very revealing item of Bomber Command 's history were a tape to be made available today of that unfortunate telephone link-up , and for a cold assessment to be made of all the circumstances as known at the time .
6 The national curriculum should do nothing but good if it is a means of ensuring that schools do not , for example , permit children to give up all science subjects at the age of thirteen , or fail to reach a reasonable competence in read g and calculating by the time they leave school .
7 Charlie pulled out his fob-watch and glanced at the time .
8 How can I be sure that this year 's cures will not be in disgrace and condemned by the time you read about them ?
9 Aye that was Well that that was on the platform when I got me face burnt and me left hand , which I think was burnt trying to protect me me head or face at the time .
10 It should wear off eventually — in a week , a month or a year — depending on the astrological and meteorological conditions that prevailed at the time she launched it .
11 That choice is best made in the light of the conditions that prevail at the time .
12 In order to remove all doubt , the Law Commission in their Report Sale and Supply of Goods ( 1987 ) No 160 recommended that the concept of merchantability should explicitly include reasonable durability as measured from the time of supply and this was included in s2B(e) of the Consumer Guarantees Bill 1990 .
13 On the broadcasting of the Video : A reasonable payment to be negotiated which will be in line with the agreements for terms that exist at the time between the Society of Authors and/or Writers ' Guild on the one hand and the ITCA/BBC on the other hand
14 On the broadcasting of the Video : A reasonable payment to be negotiated which will be in line with the agreements for terms that exist at the time between the Society of Authors and/or Writers ' Guild on the one hand and the ITCA/BBC on the other hand
15 there is 's ‘ particles of fire ’ theory of heat set in the context of the arguments that raged at the time : that is , heat as a fluid ( caloric ) versus heat as motion ( kinetic ) .
16 These were : dégorgement ( the act of removing sediment from the bottle after the second fermentation ) and liqueur de tirage ( the addition of sugar and yeast at the time of bottling to promote and guarantee a second fermentation ) .
17 So we find , for example , that men are like grass renewed in the morning but withered by the time of evening ( I 's 90.5 ) ; their days are like grass which is gone when the wind ( as here ) passes over it ( 103.15–16 ) ; the " son of man who is made like grass " is parallel to " man who dies " ( Isa 51.12 ) .
18 What about the monopolistic profits , as witness electricity and Manweb 's latest and forecast profits as quoted in the Times business survey — 77 per cent up in 1990-1991 ?
19 Children are not unfamiliar with situations in which they tell , or are told , what someone else said or thought ; or in which they tell what they themselves said or thought at some point in the past or think at the time of speaking .
20 It 's not the tears that fall at the time ,
21 Fatigue contributes to the fall-off in performance that occurs as the time spent awake ( or on duty ) increases .
22 Finally , the politically important and influential newspapers were not the newspapers with the greatest circulation but the small circulation , élite ( political ) newspapers as exemplified by The Times .
23 There would also be a short term pension payable er and this would be paid for three months at the rate of your pension or pay at the time of death .
24 Dyson then went about the task of enlisting support for the organisation , a process which was successful , as can be seen from the thirty-three signatories ( including Lord Attlee , the Bishops of Birmingham and Exeter , Isaiah Berlin , Julian Huxley , Bertrand Russell ) to the letter that appeared in The Times in March 1958 .
25 If the videos are at any time broadcast for public viewing the Publisher will negotiate a residual fee which will be in line with the agreement for minimum fees that exist at the time between the Society of Authors/Writers ' Guild and ITCA/BBC .
26 5 If the videos are at any time broadcast for public viewing , we will negotiate a residual fee which will be in general line with the agreement for minimum fees that exist at the time between the Society of Authors/Writers ' Guild and ITCA/BBC .
27 Luckily for Mary Lou , the caption on the photo that ran in the Times was misleading .
28 This is a date and time serial number and corresponds to the time given by your computer 's system clock at the point you pressed the Enter key .
29 But in terms of his public image as seen at the time , he had been careful to distance himself from the unpopular anti Jewish terror of the Nazi mobs and had placed himself on the side of legality .
30 … For the purpose of these proceedings it is to be assumed that the plaintiff 's injuries as subsisting at the time of her birth were caused by the act or omission of the defendant in the driving of his car .
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