Example sentences of "[noun] be [v-ing] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be that , like me , more and more readers are dreaming of the time when they can either afford to move home or , at the very least , redecorate their existing one ? |
| 2 | So if I wrote , ‘ The next day was a Fuesday ’ because I hit the wrong key on the typewriter , they used to leave it in , thinking that was what the kids were saying at the time ! |
| 3 | Now I I construe that , the way that 's constructed to mean that er when we 're say that the tide had turned against new settlements , as some districts were doing at the time this came out . |
| 4 | In the Soviet Union popular support for the manned space programme was dwindling at a time of great economic hardship and political uncertainty for the majority of the population . |
| 5 | So I drove up to Illinois , where Ray was living at the time , and got him to build me one . |
| 6 | This is what Dr Serafin is escaping from every time she pedals furiously to the station to catch the train to London ( one of those bicycles in the hall is hers ) with the portable typewriter lodged insecurely in the basket on the handlebars . |
| 7 | I think if you saw what David did afterwards , he was obviously attracted to the one-man show that Tony Newley was doing at the time like , ‘ Stop The World ’ and things like that , and the lyrics appealed to him . |
| 8 | In many cases it is extremely difficult to carry out tests under truly controlled conditions , because the external conditions are changing throughout the time period in question . |
| 9 | All of these changes were happening at a time when the rapid expansion of television was encouraging even greater isolation . |
| 10 | Laugh , if you must , about Skoda , but its market share is increasing at a time when some ‘ serious ’ manufacturers are in decline . |
| 11 | The authorities ' ability to pay for reforms was diminishing at a time when the gentry 's lack of enthusiasm for restructuring their finances was as great as ever . |
| 12 | Given that Finn 's Hotel is where the author 's adored Nora Barnacle was working at the time they met , will it be a love story ? |
| 13 | Thorndyke took pictures of what the cats were doing at the time they escaped . |
| 14 | The sort of modest suburban house which Mrs Moore was renting at the time could be purchased in those days for £850 or £1,000 . |
| 15 | Of these the most important was Theodore Robinson , who did become a close friend of the painter , and who produced some paintings of the haystacks on which Monet was working at the time , which are almost indistinguishable from those of the master . |
| 16 | The supporting cast was made up of Sylvia Miles , Brenda Vaccaro , John McGiver , Barnard Hughes ( film debut ) , Ruth White and Jennifer Salt ( the screenwriter 's 25-year-old daughter with whom the divorced Voight was living at the time ) . |
| 17 | At the Ryecroft bail hostel in Gloucester , where Hagans was living at the time , another witness said Hagans had tried to sell him a wedding ring for ten pounds , and was wearing a gold chain necklace . |
| 18 | But few critics are laughing at a time when ex-Klansman David Duke is able seriously to contend the governorship of Louisiana . |
| 19 | But we also , I think , all took the view , because that was what all the signs were showing at the time , that the crunch would come later than it did , and I think that was the perceived view of anybody working in Whitehall at that stage . |
| 20 | It was what the Americans would call a ‘ company town ’ , and is worth seeing as an example of what enlightened employers were doing at the time . |
| 21 | Although they might have been relatively cheap to build they were expensive to maintain , a point that some experts were putting at the time . |
| 22 | It is wise to remember that these men were competing at a time when the black presence was of only tiny significance . |
| 23 | If the power is accidentally turned off in use or the power source runs out , the user 's place is kept automatically in whatever application is running at the time . |
| 24 | In the simplest systems , where only one program is running at a time , this means merely expediting the changeover from one program to the next . |
| 25 | Security and crowd control video cameras were recording at the time of Saturday 's attack , but cut out when the fire blew the electricity supply . |
| 26 | Gene Miles , who along with Dean Bell , has provided the solidity for Wigan to batter opponents into submission so often this season , explained the significance of the December get-together : ‘ The injuries were clearing at the time of the team meeting and we put everything into winning games around Christmas and New Year . |
| 27 | If I am not mistaken , Davis was fielding at the time of his injury , and while one must concede that the wearing of helmets by batsmen , though hideous , is permissible , their use in the field is surely unacceptable and should be banned . |
| 28 | Two weeks before the transfer deadline , and in a desperate bid to clinch Manchester United 's first Championship in 25 years , Ferguson made a call to David Pleat at Luton , where Chelsea striker Harford was playing at the time . |
| 29 | It was easy to obey the lieutenant 's command to keep her head down and say nothing , but her heart was thundering by the time they reached the relative safety of the airfield 's terminal building . |
| 30 | DNA changes by biological evolution only on a time scale of millions of years , but our powers of destruction are increasing on a time scale for the evolution of information , which is now only twenty or thirty years . |