Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Summerill is staying on as chairman for the time being . |
| 2 | It is a major procedure in these patients , and , unfortunately , not all patients are fit enough for surgery at the time of referral . |
| 3 | Brighton caused controversy by proposing to teach full-time and sandwich students together for part of the time . |
| 4 | A subsequent call , also noted down in detail at the time , established that before the disaster Connelly had attended a meeting in Frankfurt between various agencies monitoring a drug-trafficking operation through the airport which involved the switching of baggage . |
| 5 | This back-dating of the appointment was not of significance at the time but it is an early example of how masters in Stockport could come and go without the immediate supervision of the Company . |
| 6 | He was not under suspicion at the time , although he was about to be dismissed for his indiscretions and outrageous behaviour . |
| 7 | Probably all three of them were away from court at the time of the murder : Waddo was certainly in the retinue of Chilperic 's daughter Rigunth , who was en route for Spain , where she was to have been married . |
| 8 | Where , however , the plaintiff was not in possession at the time of the conversion but relied on his right to possession jus tertii could be pleaded by the defendant . |
| 9 | held that a general charge on the undertaking of a company applied to all its ships , whether or not in existence at the time of its creation . |
| 10 | Section 5(2) states that the trade description shall be taken as referring to all goods of the class , whether or not in existence at the time the advertisement is published . |
| 11 | Adequate safety measures stipulated by the Indian government were not in place at the time of the accident , according to the documents , which state that the accident was due to " sheer negligence " . |
| 12 | Details of 53 schemes were collected , 51 already in use at the time of the review in 1983–4 and two of which were in their final stage of development and have since come into operation . |
| 13 | Thus many of the elements of the familiar Victorian pub were already in place at the time of William IV 's death in 1837 . |
| 14 | For , roughly , the following utterance will be true ( 10 ) There is a man on Mars just in case at the time of speaking there is a man on Mars , whereas ( 11 ) will be true just in case at some time prior to the time of speaking ( 10 ) would have been true : ( 11 ) There was a man on Mars There has been considerable philosophical interest in expressions that have this context-dependent property , like demonstratives , first and second person pronouns , and morphemes indicating tense . |
| 15 | The latter , a cashier with the company , immediately protested his innocence and said that he had been away on holiday at the time . |
| 16 | The Marquis was away on holiday at the time . |
| 17 | This present mayor was away on holiday at the time , he said perhaps that I should of seen that erm it would go to committee |
| 18 | Three others — Paul Dalrymple and John Sutherland ( Kings ) and Gary Williams ( Bulls ) — have been given two-match suspensions , while Kings ' Graham Bailey and George Charters , who left the bench when not on court at the time , each receive a one-match ban . |
| 19 | Where possible , fieldworkers attempted to record a male and a female at each address , and since very often both were not at home at the time of the first visit , a second and even a third visit was arranged to most addresses . |
| 20 | Lübeck Cathedral is an immense building which is still under restoration at the time of writing . |
| 21 | ‘ Other modifications of the door closing system and methods of mitigating the effects of sudden depressurisation of the aft cargo compartment were still under study at the time of the accident . ’ |
| 22 | Bradshaw and Millar found that about 85 per cent of all lone mothers had spent some time on income support since becoming a lone parent with 72 per cent still in receipt at the time of the interview . |
| 23 | We had encountered suggestions , in Prieuré de Sion sources , that certain of its early members , and of their offshoot , the Knights Templar , had established contact with certain Essene/Zadokite/Nazarean sects still in existence during the time of the Crusades , more than a thousand years after Jesus 's era . |
| 24 | I did hear from friends , who were still in service at the time , that this caused a lot of bad feeling . , |
| 25 | The bridge was still in service at the time of Indian independence in 1947 . |
| 26 | There is also information on where the local topos/guides can be bought ( that is assuming they are still in stock by the time you get there ) . |
| 27 | Yet probably The Rock relies on a form too close to extinction at the time for it to bring the whole revue to life . |
| 28 | 1979 ; Wells 1981 ) have reported that the amount of talk by children and their caretakers varies , both in respect of the time of day ( more talk first thing in the morning and early afternoon ) and as a function of their familiarity with the process of being recorded ( less talk on the first day , compared with subsequent days ) . |
| 29 | He argued , convincingly , that noun phrases taken as a whole may quite often have a different temporal assignment from that of the verb which they accompany , as in : ( 37 ) I used to be a good friend of the police chief The underlined phrase may be understood as past relative to the time of utterance ( and hence in agreement with the time indicated by the verb ) or as present ; the two different time-values correspond to the two different continuations in : ( 38 ) … before he joined the force … until he was shot for corruption The first continuation would be compatible with an expansion of the subject phrase to the man who is the police chief , while the second would support the man who was the police chief . |
| 30 | 19.27 ) , which was clearly in operation at the time of Jeremiah ( Jer. 9.26 ) . |