Example sentences of "[that] the [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | It is worth remembering that the UK at the time of this publication was already adrift of the best practice elsewhere , with fatality rates double those of the Netherlands for pedestrians and more than triple those of Sweden for children . |
2 | In the late fifth-century Babylonian satrapy ‘ bow land ’ and ‘ chariot land ’ were given away on condition that the owners for the time being paid for soldiers or cavalry . |
3 | Your body fuel makes your engine tick over , and it 's good to know that the majority of the time it is being well and truly fed in the best possible way ! |
4 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
5 | The current deteriorating standards of living and acute social problems that owe so much of their origin to the decline in the economy suggest that the inheritance at the time of Independence of a highly developed mining sector was a very mixed blessing : the lack of balance it occasioned in the economic base has resulted in serious economic and social disequilibrium with the locus of control resting as much with decisions made in the London Metal Market as with policies established in Lusaka . |
6 | The emergent working class exhibited an eagerness and aptitude for organized protest , and an interest in socialist ideas , that the peasantry at the time lacked . |
7 | Please note that the variation of the time to pay direction comes into effect on the date of this letter . |
8 | However , it must be acknowledged also that the conditions of the time have an important part to play in determining the feasibility of any particular type of exchange rate system . |
9 | I asked you through the Medau News last year to all help and make our fund raising this year a really great success and when you know that the figure at the time of going to press is over £2,600 you will all be as pleased as our Treasurer is . |
10 | But to avoid loading a title with a chain of such covenants , it is perhaps better draftsmanship , when first imposing restrictions , to provide that the owner for the time being shall be responsible only for breaches committed whilst he or she is such owner . |