Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] [det] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I would n't have my photograph taken at that time at all . |
| 2 | As it happened , though the tension continued for some time after the building of the Berlin Wall in August to stop the flight of East Germans to the West , the two sides had to settle for a stalemate . |
| 3 | Councillor Matheson also asked if any social workers presently in the employ of Orkney Islands Council had at any time in their careers , attended conferences , seminars or other courses organised by the Reachout Trust ? |
| 4 | First of all , you have to ascertain whether your strategy up the first part of the beat will make you want to carry on sailing on starboard tack for some time after the starting signal , or to tack onto port as soon as possible after the start . |
| 5 | Whatever your kind of break , the abundance of things to see and do makes Brighton & Hove the right place to head for any time of year . |
| 6 | FoE estimate that 12 million people receive drinking water contaminated at some time by pesticides . |
| 7 | We shall endeavour to maintain prices shown but we reserve the right to increase any price shown at any time without limitation , in which case you will be advised of the revised price at the time of booking : after which the price will be in accordance with our price policy , shown in the Cosmos Consumer Protection Plan on pages 12/13 of this brochure . |
| 8 | Goebbels 's propaganda had by this time in any case lost practically all credibility . |
| 9 | ‘ Do you think it would be sensible for a woman to go at that time of night into the house of an unmarried man ? ’ she asked . |
| 10 | He 'd heard the daily summary coming through some time after midnight , but he had n't bothered to check it ; anything important or relevant and Stoneley would have telephoned him direct , and there were too many big shadows and dark corners in the schoolroom for his liking . |
| 11 | 7.6.5 If upon the expiry of a period of [ 3 ] years commencing on the date of the damage or destruction the Premises and the Retained Parts have not been rebuilt or reinstated so that the Premises are fit for the Tenant 's occupation and use either party may by notice served at any time within [ 6 ] months of the expiry of such period invoke the provisions of clause 7.6.6 |
| 12 | Fluorescence is said to occur where emission ceases almost immediately after withdrawal of the exciting source and where there is no thermal cause , whereas in phosphorescence the emission decays for some time after removal of excitation . |
| 13 | We hope that the Hong Kong Branch revives at some time in the future . |
| 14 | THESE days ‘ carol ’ means only the festive song heard at this time of year , but originally it denoted a dance . |
| 15 | During the first thirty-six years of the century the pope had taxed the English church to the tune of almost £450,000 , of which some £360,000 was earmarked for the king , a sum more than three times the amount produced in that time by direct royal taxation of the clergy . |
| 16 | ‘ That was a damn silly thing to do at this time of night . ’ |
| 17 | If you hike down here ( a much wiser thing to do at this time of year ) the Grand Canyon Department of Arbitrary Silly Rules and Regulations have erected signs that read ‘ Do not go beyond this point without water . ’ |
| 18 | It was held that property in the incomplete ship passed on payment of the first instalment but that no property passed at that time in some materials which were Lying in the ship yard and might be used in the ship 's construction . |
| 19 | Controversy continued for some time about the identity or otherwise of human and bovine tuberculosis , until the infecting organisms were shown clearly to belong to different species of the large genus Mycobacteria , most of which are harmless to man . |
| 20 | Addictive disease causes the sufferer to return at some time to the substance , process or relation-ship of addiction despite various disturbances of function and despite previous negative consequences . |
| 21 | Hum. , 1908–13 ) for the purpose of giving graduates of the College opportunity to travel at such time in their careers as might be of most value to them either by enabling them to broaden their experience of other countries and their peoples or to carry out research . |