Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | Mm yes but we 're coming up to a time when er the quantity of old people is going to be rather high than before because we 're all healthier . |
2 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
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 | So in the presence of a sustained stimulus , here , which is lasting around two milliseconds , the channels are switching off with a time constant of what around half a millisecond . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | And who can say what will be going on by the time you read these words ? |
8 | Three of the four students not looking for employment and without plans to continue their studies would be travelling overseas for a time before commencing job search . |
9 | Somervillians in the area will be hearing more nearer the time . |
10 | ‘ I mean facts that relate to the story I 'm working on at the time . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Erm I think it 's also now pretty much common ground that the capacity of York city is around three thousand three hundred , but I think in in in taking an view on that , and in taking any view o on future windfalls , it is necessary for the panel to keep in mind that historically in the nineteen eighties windfalls were coming through at a time when it was not a adopted local plan for the city of York , so to some extent anything by definition of a substantial size was likely to be a windfall , erm , but also more to the point than that definitional point , I would expect to see , and I think what Mr Curtis has said earlier on that the local plan is likely to tighten up on criteria for release of sites , both small and large , he referred to the shortage of open space , and I would expect to see a policy change in short , a policy climate change , within the city of York that would constrain past historical rates of windfall release . |
14 | The two-parter was also fun as it gave all of us a chance to act in conflict and be a bit more expansive , because otherwise , if you think about it , all we were doing most of the time was feeding lines to other people . ’ |
15 | He could n't see what the men were doing most of the time , because they were either inside or hidden by buildings . |
16 | So , for many years , the couple made their living as hired help , and were doing so at the time of the film 's success . |
17 | I 've been thinking today of the time I took Piers and Antoinette to meet him . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | When you come to retirement age , whilst not suggesting that you are past it , you are planning ahead for the time where you may not be quite as capable as were . |
20 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
21 | Lucky because Ken Backhouse was walking by at the time . |
22 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
23 | I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo . |
24 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
25 | I only explained I was listening in at the time . |
26 | It had been some time now since the old pilots had been in a dog-fight , and Killion for one was sweating heavily by the time he landed . |
27 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
28 | To omit this background is rather like accusing the RAF of bombing innocent women and children in Berlin without mentioning that world war two was going on at the time . |
29 | ‘ They also expressed a lack of knowledge about what was going on at the time , and they blamed their mothers for that . |
30 | Did nobody have any idea what was going on at the time ? |