Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Westminster Abbey Library is a fragment of a funerary taper found in Abbot Thomas Mylling 's tomb , which is presumed to have been placed there at the time of his funeral in 1492 and probably came off the hearse . |
| 2 | Relations with Iraq had been broken off at the time of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and US diplomatic business in Baghdad was handled by a US Interests section at the Belgian embassy ( headed by the author of an authoritative work on Kurdish affairs , William Eagleton Jnr ) . |
| 3 | The directive is based on minimum standards — but I am caught out by the time , Madam Deputy Speaker . |
| 4 | Since we compiled the answer relating to company names and trade marks , our attention has been drawn to the case of Mothercare UK Ltd v Penguin ( 1987 ) which appears to have been reported only in the Times on 8 July 1987 . |
| 5 | Since there is such a difference between the two documents , and since the Dunrossness District Plan was designed for immediate public consumption ( the Structurn Plan had not been disseminated widely at the time of our research , June , 1978 — January , 1979 ) one could suggest that the tenor of the document reflects the desire to underplay any potential conflicts between Shetlanders and incomers . |
| 6 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |
| 7 | On one side was the flower-garden view ; on the other , one window had been bricked up at the time when windows were taxed , and I walked over to the remaining window . |
| 8 | At his trial the magistrates urged that the Book of Common Prayer had been used ever since the time of the Apostles . |
| 9 | The seeds of the ideology behind this had been sown long before the time of Constantine . |
| 10 | Absolutely not , I think there 's a strong sense in the Party that moving forward with our traditional values , that what we have to do is to apply those traditional values to a very changed world , things are very different now from when the Labour Party was formed , or even from when the Labour Party was last in government , so that we keep our sense of values , they are what grounds us , but what makes us an effective government in the future is the fact that we are moving forward with the times , and the increasing representation of women is one of the things which is about moving us forward , and moving with the times . |
| 11 | It grieves organic farmers like Brian Tustian of Brackley , Northamptonshire , to see how much their produce has been marked up by the time it reaches the shops . |
| 12 | The growth characteristics of the bones are laid down at the time when the pattern is specified and the elements are very small and this early specification will control growth for many years ( Chapter 10 ) . |
| 13 | Belief in the power of such plants can be traced back to the time of the Druids ; it was certainly part of the belief system of the Celtic peoples , and although it may not be voiced so explicitly as it once was , yet the custom of planting and preserving this special tree is still continued by some people . |
| 14 | Their heritage can be traced back to the time of the destruction of the Temple in 586 BC , when the Jews were taken captive into exile by the Babylonians . |
| 15 | Rug-making in the Balkans can be traced back to the time when the peninsula was under the control of the Turkish empire . |
| 16 | The chart needs to be filled in at the time the child eats as retrospective memory is unreliable . |
| 17 | The welfare point is a little complicated , because of course you have to catch up the dogs , and many of those dogs will be killed , but the dogs can be treated well during the time they are held . |
| 18 | Planning requires the identification of tasks and matching the means with which they may be carried out in the time available and under the conditions prevailing . |
| 19 | The Bank would require £5 to be written off at the time of sale and if the £5 was not injected as cash on day one , would even disallow the sale treatment . |
| 20 | One difficulty with testing recognition memory is that inferences might be made only at the time of the recognition test . |
| 21 | In many cases the husband and wife will be living apart at the time of the court order , or at a time when agreement is reached between them concerning the former matrimonial home , in circumstances that are likely to prove permanent . |
| 22 | He had only to pick one of them up to be transported back to the time and place of its acquisition . |
| 23 | And who can say what will be going on by the time you read these words ? |
| 24 | Somervillians in the area will be hearing more nearer the time . |
| 25 | This enabled the movements of Filden I to be monitored closely from the time she left Dieppe . |
| 26 | ‘ Given the present and foreseeable state of fishery resources in the Community and the degree to which fishing fleets have so far been restructured , the full-scale liberalisation of the activities of undertakings must be ruled out for the time being … |
| 27 | This may be taken either at the time of your child 's birth or during the weeks following , for example , when the mother and baby leave hospital . |
| 28 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 29 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 30 | ‘ I mean facts that relate to the story I 'm working on at the time . |