Example sentences of "[adj] be [vb pp] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | While few are completed at the time of writing , previews of work in progress suggest some excellent material . |
| 2 | Some researchers believe that this is related to the time orientation or how far ahead an individual thinks or plans . |
| 3 | Dr Gillian Sutherland 's book Ability , Merit and Measurement has shown how testing in some ways preceded theoretical elaborations of the intelligence quotient — and how this was established by the time of the Spens report of 1938 . |
| 4 | The US Semiconductor Industry Association 's book-to-bill ratio for March fell to 1.17 from the revised 1.19 figure for February — a figure of 1.18 was reported at the time . |
| 5 | People arrested late in 1991 were beaten at the time of their arrest and tortured and beaten while in detention . |
| 6 | Much was made at the time of the Prince 's engagement of the youthfulness and consequent innocence of his bride . |
| 7 | It 'll all be forgotten by the time we do go back to town . |
| 8 | All were used at the time of the Edgar " Ordo " . |
| 9 | Scotland , compared to England and Wales , has relatively few medieval churches but , precisely because so many were destroyed at the time of the Reformation , Scotland is rich in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ecclesiastical architecture . |
| 10 | Because of the recession the public sector borrowing requirement ( PSBR ) will be high , and a figure of £28bn for 1992/93 was forecast at the time of the Budget in March . |
| 11 | In 1958 , Reginald Bassett lamented the fact ‘ that no study of the General Election of 1931 was made at the time on the lines of the extremely useful studies of the 1945 and subsequent General Elections sponsored by Nuffield College ’ . |