Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun sg] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once or twice he 's spotted guys who were news at the time . |
| 2 | Mr Major , who was Chancellor at the time the embargo was imposed , turned on his critics , telling Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown he had ‘ misunderstood the position ’ . |
| 3 | Bush , who was Vice-President at the time of the operation , and Gates , who was deputy director of the CIA , had both denied any knowledge of the operation until shortly before it became public in November 1986 . |
| 4 | Enterprise Computer Holdings Plc fears it has been misunderstood : the company is keen to stress that Finance Director Les Kemp has the unhappy confusion over last year 's accounting figures under control ( CI No 2,162 ) but wants to know how accountants KPMG Peat Marwick managed not to sign the audit report for subsidiary Enterprise Computer Services ; apparently there was confusion at the time over the verification of certain bank loans ; all should be clear in the next report and the company says it expects to show a return to profit . |
| 5 | The 1986 BMA report on complementary medicine ( widely criticised for its lack-lustre approach ) only allowed that there was value in the time devoted to patients and called for more scientific evaluation . |
| 6 | They realise that improved techniques may disprove today 's theory , and so they no longer use the terms , true and false , right or wrong , but only value a theory for it 's usefulness at the time . |
| 7 | It is dusk by the time the wild elephants reach the funnel and now the noise of the beaters behind them is so loud that they simply keep going — into the khedda . |
| 8 | It was dusk by the time she checked out of the Shelbourne ; night was approaching rapidly . |
| 9 | It was midday by the time Miss Danziger walked through the entrance of The Tamarisks . |
| 10 | It was noon by the time they reached Beaulieu , a smug little New Forest village at the head of the Beaulieu estuary , but Harry was too eager for progress to permit the halt for lunch that Mossop had enjoyed with Heather . |
| 11 | ‘ It was daylight at the time and the curtains in your brother 's office were drawn . ’ |
| 12 | He was king at the time , therefore , of the battle of Nechtanesmere , after which Bede says the Scots recovered their independence . |
| 13 | One is faced , then , with two conflicting views about the dating of the Muftilik of Abdulkerim : first , the view of the that he was Mufti in the time of Mehmed II , perhaps from 870/1465–6 onwards ; and second , the view of the writers connected with the later tradition , Mustakimzade half-excepted , that he was Mufti in the time of Bayezid II , more precisely , following Molla Gurani , from 893/1488 to Rajab 900/March-April 1495 . |
| 14 | One is faced , then , with two conflicting views about the dating of the Muftilik of Abdulkerim : first , the view of the that he was Mufti in the time of Mehmed II , perhaps from 870/1465–6 onwards ; and second , the view of the writers connected with the later tradition , Mustakimzade half-excepted , that he was Mufti in the time of Bayezid II , more precisely , following Molla Gurani , from 893/1488 to Rajab 900/March-April 1495 . |