Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Painting is drawing at the same time , ’ Mauve had told him . |
| 2 | This time an overseas crew from South Africa is competing for the first time . |
| 3 | And the whole market — dominated by six firms including Argos and Great Universal Stores — is shrinking for the first time in years . |
| 4 | ‘ This genuine shortage is occurring for the first time ever . |
| 5 | This is occurring at the same time as the Commission is using the single market as an excuse to augment its power for political means . |
| 6 | We too would like to see some pensioner and pensioner trustees on that trustee board , but we do also recognise because it is er a large scheme heavily weighted er with er pensioners and deferred pensioners in the very fact that it has been transferred from the public centre of public er sector into the private sector , that we would like to see an independent trustee er er appointed on to the er Committee of Management it would er er sort of act as a balance and be able to provide er specialist advice to particularly the Trade Union Trustees and for that matter the Employer Trustees so as to keep a broad balance of what 's happening within the that time . |
| 7 | And again that 's looking at the same time in nineteen seventy se seventy seven , seventy eight time , it 's looking back into that er er driveway , and if you can remember the sort of the Victorian or Edwardian er photograph that er I showed you before , of er virtually that er that view . |
| 8 | She thought , perhaps he 's waiting till the next time we go , perhaps he 's biding his time … |
| 9 | The Direct Tableware Company sales director Roger Young agrees that it will be next spring before any real growth in catering occurs , but he thinks there might be a slight upturn next month in the top-up business : ‘ It 's heading for the busy time and you ca n't serve customers without knives and forks . ’ |
| 10 | Long-term unemployment , defined as people out of work for more than a year , is rising for the first time in five years . |
| 11 | Cos I 'm , I 'm getting desperate cos it 's getting near the actual time . |
| 12 | Often the hypertext system is running at the same time as other systems , exchanging documents dynamically with them . |
| 13 | You know you can hear everyone talking at the same it 's recording at the same time you can hear everyone talking like sort of really clearly . |
| 14 | Er Er this motion is not an attempt to preempt applications Mr Chairman come before us that 's Mr said time is indicating for the first time that er September might possibly be months . |
| 15 | THE number of marriages between a divorcee and someone who is marrying for the first time is on the slide . |
| 16 | ( Short , happy , slightly humorous speech when the groom is marrying for the first time to a divorced woman . ) |
| 17 | Home ownership in America is falling for the first time since the Depression , just as the savings-and-loan collapse has made the government the largest single owner of property after foreclosing on bankrupt thrifts . |