Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | The directive is based on minimum standards — but I am caught out by the time , Madam Deputy Speaker . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Rug-making in the Balkans can be traced back to the time when the peninsula was under the control of the Turkish empire . |
| 10 | The chart needs to be filled in at the time the child eats as retrospective memory is unreliable . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had only to pick one of them up to be transported back to the time and place of its acquisition . |
| 14 | And who can say what will be going on by the time you read these words ? |
| 15 | ‘ 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 … |
| 16 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 17 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 18 | ‘ I mean facts that relate to the story I 'm working on at the time . |
| 19 | All this head of steam must have been boiling up at the time of JTR 's visit and yet he seems not to have been aware of it . |
| 20 | Humphrey Maud presented his diplomatic credentials to Menem on July 18 , becoming the first United Kingdom ambassador to Argentina since diplomatic relations were broken off at the time of the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands war of 1982 . |
| 21 | Entitled Swizzlewick , it ‘ starred ’ a Mrs Smallgood , a Councillor Salt — the chairman of the NVALA committee was a Birmingham councillor by the name of Pepper — and Ernest the postman , Ernest being the name of Mr Whitehouse and ‘ Postman 's Piece ’ the name of the house they were living in at the time . |
| 22 | some of them being throttled round at the time . |
| 23 | These include Stanwick Castle and an older property at Streatlam which was probably being pulled down around the time Edelson House was built , he says . |
| 24 | Where possible , the more significant ‘ non-Leicestershire ’ cases are being followed up in the relevant local newspapers , and national events are being followed up in The Times . |
| 25 | I do not believe in using the deep trance state in any form of therapy as it involves hypnoamnesia , a state in which the patient will neither be aware of what is going on at the time nor able to recall it afterwards . |
| 26 | Be fucked out by the time I |
| 27 | However , the contractual commitment stems from the first of those calls on the basis that it is followed up by the time agreed . |
| 28 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 29 | Is it not the case , as was pointed out at the time of the French Revolution by the Abbé Sieyes , that if the second chamber agrees with the first it is superfluous and if it disagrees it is mischievous ? |
| 30 | Lucky because Ken Backhouse was walking by at the time . |