Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adj] time they [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradually they learn to discriminate , although for some time they can not determine what is influencing the mother 's movements towards or away from them . |
| 2 | Most hotels maintain records of the occupancy of the room so that at any time they can refer to it and see when and by whom the room was occupied . |
| 3 | Yes , and during that time they used to have a lot of people visiting from overseas |
| 4 | So she moves them to a nearby burrow when they are approximately four weeks old and at that time they will have become virtually self-supporting . |
| 5 | They 'll find themselves chartered to carry pig-iron and cheap tin trays , just like everybody else ; and by that time they 'll be down in the South Seas loading rainbows and moonbeams . |
| 6 | ‘ But because when we join up it will be on the back of a full weekend 's fixtures of FA Cup matches — and by that time they will have played 15 games for their clubs — I 've just asked them to keep a little compartment in their minds about England . |
| 7 | ‘ Career breaks would enable women to choose to take five , six or seven years out to have their families but in that time they would be kept in touch , ’ said Miss Armstrong . |
| 8 | Often a group of children will work alongside their teacher and may produce similar puppets , but at another time they may use the technique more creatively . |
| 9 | The desert was an unforgiving place , but their training had equipped them to cope , when at any time they could have taken the easy way out and walked down to the coast road to surrender . |