Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] time in " in BNC.

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1 Not much enlightenment there ; the same reply could have been given at any time in the past four years .
2 However , top management became aware that all of the work-force reductions , although necessary , were not attacking the basic problem : the organization had been designed for another time in history rather than for the competitive world in which it now lived .
3 None had been seen at that time in the Harwell experiments that preceded ZETA but Kurchatov announced that the Soviets were seeing some neutrons which were due to fusion occurring , but were unlikely to be from thermonuclear fusion because the rate of their production did not vary with current in the expected way .
4 But it had clearly been used at some time in the past .
5 At the northern end was a much lower , broader cone , Perboewetan , whose crater wall had been breached at some time in the past by a large lava flow .
6 I would guess that she has been hurt at some time in the past , probably having banged her head or hip .
7 But before I try to answer these questions , let me remind you once again that there are vast areas of the globe , where ethnic politics , however embittered , are not nationalist , sometimes because the idea of an ethnically homogeneous population has been abandoned at some time in the past , or never existed — as in the US — or because the programme of setting up separate territorial , ethnic-linguistic states is both irrelevant and impractical .
8 They earn interest in dinars , calculated at the current exchange rate , and the principal can normally be withdrawn at any time in the given foreign currency .
9 Eggs are laid down in the autumn and a good digestible protein-rich diet , such as earthworms , should be fed at this time in order to encourage early spawning .
10 ( It will have to be moved at this time in any case ) .
11 RESTORE can be used at any time in a program to set the line where DATA is read from .
12 They thought he could be used at some time in the future even better internationally than locally .
13 On 7 September he delivered a television broadcast in which he claimed that , for the sake of the economy and the national wellbeing , the election would be postponed to some time in 1979 .
14 Better organisation of care should also be associated with some time in the medical student curriculum being devoted to the practical aspects of diabetes .
15 He had been observed for some time in the recovery unit as his central venous pressure and blood pressure were low .
16 No father ( of a case or control ) had accumulated a recorded dose of more than 5 mSv before his child was conceived , and no father had been monitored at any time in the four years before his child was conceived .
17 At the time of writing , the founding session of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Leipzig ( the Free Academy of the Arts ) is being planned for some time in May .
18 At the time of writing , the founding session of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Leipzig ( the Free Academy of the Arts ) is being planned for some time in May .
19 ’ My reconnaissance visit is scheduled for some time in January . ’
20 The section relates to any instrument that : ( i ) is executed in pursuance of an order of a court made on granting in respect of the parties a decree of divorce , nullity of marriage or judicial separation , or ( ii ) is executed in pursuance of an order of a court which is made in connection with the dissolution or annulment of the marriage or the parties ' judicial separation and which is made at any time after the granting of such a decree , or ( iii ) is executed at any time in pursuance of an agreement of the parties made in contemplation of or otherwise in connection with the dissolution or annulment of the marriage or their judicial separation .
21 Claire paddles away at buttons on telephone , scours desk for material to take to meeting ( 3.00 p.m. , the worst ) gets hung up fielding call from incandescent client wanting to know why contract has been mis-drafted for third time in succession …
22 The flat area to the south was drained at some time in the eighteenth century and a canal was built across it .
23 Keith Nunn , manager , Seismic Quality , XFI , describes it as ‘ similar in many respects ’ to XFI 's first 3D survey in block 6 which was completed in record-breaking time in May ( see Technology centre spread ) .
24 A great deal of work was done at that time in enlarging and landscaping the park , creating lakes and the kitchen gardens .
25 The October 1990 rate cut was anticipated for some time in advance by the gilt market which bought gilts and drove up gilt prices ( see Fig. 17.3 ) , as was the continued fall in base rates over the next two years .
26 After closure of Woodhead as a through route , the Sheffield to Penistone section was retained for some time in order to allow upgrading of the route via Barnsley .
27 Although other burials clustered around the enclosure , the internal area was respected , until the whole monument was dismantled at some time in the fourth century .
28 There is only one ‘ edition ’ of The Fairy Queen , which was issued first in 1692 — in May , when the show opened ( this is clear from Tonson 's advertisement in The London Gazette ) ; it was re-issued at some time in 1693 , with the modifications already described — a new title-page , a new Act 1 , and two new songs on single-leaf inserts later in the book .
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