Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other propositions may not be testable even in principle but may remain for the time as a necessary component of an overall paradigm . |
| 2 | In fact in Duru [ 1976 ] 1 WLR 2 the Court of Appeal thought that both charges in relation to the thing in action represented by the cheque and to the paper itself were to be upheld but the judges ' minds were not directed at this issue whether property must exist at the time of the obtaining . |
| 3 | With Samson we have to decide whether we should concentrate on the time of its circulation in the early 1670s or whether we should attempt to determine a precise date of composition . |
| 4 | the release specification with which a product must comply at the time of manufacture ; |
| 5 | Cutting may occur at the time of binge-eating . |
| 6 | It may be very difficult to obtain accurate colour photographs of quartz luminescence because the shift to red may occur during the time of exposure . |
| 7 | The contract will therefore seek : 1 to define the client 's obligations and , so far as possible , to minimise them ; 2 to define the scope of the contract by defining which statements form part of it ; 3 to minimise the scope for variation of the contract duties , by defining the authority of the client 's representatives to make statements binding on it , or to vary the contract ; 4 to minimise the likelihood of the client being in breach of contract , by defining the client 's obligations in flexible terms : for instance , the quantity of goods to be delivered may be subject to tolerances ; or the contract may provide for the time for delivery to be extended in certain situations ; 5 to minimise the extent of the client 's liability for any breach it commits : for instance , by excluding liability for certain kinds of loss , or by placing a financial ceiling on liability ; 6 to define the obligations of the client 's trading partners ; 7 to define the consequences of non-performance by the client 's trading partners ; 8 to provide machinery to encourage prompt performance by the client 's trading partners : for instance , a seller may require interest on late payments , or offer discounts for early payment ; a buyer may contract for the right to withhold payment until satisfactory performance ; 9 to allow the client to use procedurally simple enforcement methods : for instance , terms of sale should be drafted so as to allow the seller to bring a liquidated claim for the price of the goods ; 10 to provide the client with security against non-performance by its trading partners : thus terms of sale are likely to seek to provide the seller with security against non-payment , for instance by means of a retention of title clause ; terms of purchase will seek to minimise the buyer 's exposure by allowing some or all of the price to be retained against satisfactory performance . |
| 8 | well the letter would relate to the time of purchase |
| 9 | There is , I believe , a strong case for encouraging more administrators from the developing countries to participate in seminars of that sort , while at the same time trying to reduce the very heavy demand that would make on the time of people primarily engaged in other tasks . |
| 10 | It would seem that its priority would date from the time of such amendment . |
| 11 | However , as the graph indicates , there is a range in which the relationship is roughly linear , which for vegetation growing under natural conditions will depend on the time of year . |
| 12 | This is a convenient practice as it avoids the need , for example , for speculation as to how the injured person 's condition will develop from the time of the initial injury or for speculation as to what his financial loss up to the date of trial at least will be . |
| 13 | Some of this evidence will derive from the time of the event , some of it will appear in a standard text book , or a more specialised monograph ( see Analytical Reading , p. 10 ) . |
| 14 | In the words of Stuart Eizenstat , Jimmy Carter 's domestic policy chief , ‘ One can trace from the time of the New Deal through the early and mid-parts of the Nixon administration , a clear , gradual , perceptible increase in presidential power relative to the legislative branch . |
| 15 | In reality , a business — like everything else — is worth no more than the best offer you can obtain at the time of a sale . |