Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not unusual therefore for the contract expressly to deal with the time for payment and the time for delivery but to be silent about the time of the transfer of property . |
| 2 | Editor , — New patients registering with our general practice often complain about the time it takes us to get their NHS notes from the family health services authority . |
| 3 | The fighting never stopped from the time I got to Los Angeles , but no one gained ground . |
| 4 | Christ , as God , was omniscient , his outlook not limited by the time in which he lived . |
| 5 | During the summer we had serious problems , we had a report on children homes which erm which y'know which pointed out a few things y'know that had n't been doing well , mainly , mainly in defence of erm because they did put in a lot of effort into fostering y'know and the children homes y'know need , as Councillor would y'know will , they did a very good job actually representing at the time . |
| 6 | The choice of reference , whether it is to be to expert or arbitrator , is in any event usually made at the time of the original contract which precedes the time when the parties know whether they have an " issue to settle " or a " formulated dispute " , and they will be obliged to use whatever procedure was stipulated , unless they make some fresh agreement . |
| 7 | Despite these landmark judgments and the abolition of the earnings rule in 1989 ( see below ) , the five-year differential in state pension age still remains at the time of writing . |
| 8 | The origins of this transformation may be traced back into the late 19th century but the upheaval finally came at the time of Vietnam , flower-power and the campus revolutions . |
| 9 | It was also during this period that primitive man undoubtedly arrived at the time when he was able to communicate with his fellows with developing abilities more effective than those available to the rest of living creatures . |
| 10 | Indeed , some verbs seem to have no lexical content beyond one which is aimed at providing some kind of reservation about applicability of the adjectival property , examples being become and turn which place a temporal restriction on the adjective 's applicability ; the subordinate property only holds after the time indicated by the tense of the verb . |
| 11 | Painstakingly , with meticulous attention to detail , Tethlis rebuilt the Elf forces to a strength not seen since the time of Aenarion . |
| 12 | And because , as I say , of my conventional background there seemed at the time a tendency to think of me as a reactionary young man . |
| 13 | The net profit margin is lower than forecast due to the increase in interest rates and certain items of expenditure not anticipated at the time of the forecast . |