Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The massacre has sabotaged for the time being any resumption of negotiations between Mandela and de Klerk . |
| 2 | The chance to buy the land for the gymnasium had disappeared for the time being , but it was not the end , he told himself . |
| 3 | It was strange ; everything he had done on the programme had seemed at the time to be imbued with an exact sense of logic and purposiveness , but now that he looked back on it , all the logical connections had disappeared , like secret writing when the special lamp is taken away . |
| 4 | We do not know precisely what stage the likelihood of significant harm had reached at the time when Thorpe J. gave his judgment on 12 May 1992 , but , he spoke of the need to strike |
| 5 | But the mood had passed by the time Harry walked once more into Breakspear College , sucking at an extra-strong mint and glad to see that a different porter was manning the lodge . |
| 6 | The sponsor had left by the time it happened , so how can he be furious ? |
| 7 | But following the changes in Eastern Europe and the virtual ending of the cold war this particular danger has receded for the time being , and as a result a new process of gradual disarmament by the major nuclear powers has begun . |
| 8 | It is important to note that the preferential creditors are given priority where a receiver is appointed with respect to a charge ‘ which , as created , was a floating charge ’ ; thus the fact that the charge has crystallised at the time a receiver is appointed does not result in preferential debts being denied their statutory priority . |
| 9 | the plaintiff had died by the time of the hearing . |
| 10 | He was sitting in the deckchair Candy had vacated by the time she returned , and for a second she thought he had fallen asleep , his head tilted back against the wooden spar of the chair , his eyes closed , their long black lashes casting shadows on his cheeks . |
| 11 | The rain had subsided by the time she was ready to set out , so she only needed to knot a sweater round her shoulders . |
| 12 | ‘ Where there is a contract for the sale of specific goods , and the goods without the knowledge of the seller have perished at the time when the contract is made , the contract is void . ’ |
| 13 | Well well actual fact , unless it 's done , the security 's fitted at the time of manufacture you can actually serious damage the framing . |
| 14 | It is clear that all resistance to shearing has vanished by the time that the atoms are balanced on top of each other , which will occur when the whole material has been distorted in shear through an angle of 30° . |
| 15 | Unless Andrew was lying , she knew from his own lips that the evidence had vanished by the time he arrived at rue Roland . |
| 16 | Night had fallen by the time we reached the centre of Barcelona . |
| 17 | One method of investigating this area has centred on the time which children take to give the answer to a range of simple sums . |
| 18 | COMPLETED FAMILY SIZE — The number of children ( live-born babies ) a woman has borne by the time she has reached the end of the childbearing age . |
| 19 | What the plaintiff was told is not clear , as the surgeon had died by the time of the trial . |
| 20 | ‘ Most of my sight had gone by the time I was five or six but at that age you seem to adjust without realising what 's happening , ’ Julia says . |
| 21 | Her voice had thickened by the time she managed to reply . |
| 22 | An acceptable theory must explain in detail how this clumping of matter has occurred in the time available for it . |
| 23 | The residue of liberty just gets smaller and smaller , until eventually , in some areas , it is extinguished altogether , with freedom becoming no more than the power to do that which an official has decided for the time being not to prohibit . |
| 24 | Regardless of a critical report it had itself commissioned , the World Bank has decided for the time being to continue financing the Sardar Sarovar dam and canal project on the Narmada river in India . |
| 25 | Scotland , too , although the state of their sea defences will depend on the course the opening phase has taken by the time the countries meet on June 20 . |
| 26 | They contained no nasty surprises , since the board had warned at the time of the Evode bid that profits would fall to £86 million . |
| 27 | My enthusiasm had waned by the time the tea arrived . |
| 28 | BRIAN MULRONEY has turned out to be one of the most unloved prime ministers in recent Canadian history — his popularity had plummeted by the time he decided to resign . |
| 29 | Charles offered himself as a donor and sat with his arm ready bared to give blood , but the unfortunate patient had died by the time the messenger returned . |
| 30 | I pointed out that most sentences in the Bible began with And , but I was told that English had changed since the time of King James , In that case , I argued , why make us read the Bible ? |