Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [adv] [prep] the time " in BNC.

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1 For the mobile unit , it must be well built and braced to allow for moving over uneven ground , if the birds are in at the time , then the extra weight on the floor will be 204 kg for the 100 bird house and 409 kg for the 200 bird house .
2 This is so irrespective of whose possession the goods were in at the time .
3 A lrge percentage of the parachutes used by British airborne servicemen were inside at the time and destroyed at a cost of more than nineteen million pounds .
4 Porter had been raised in a children 's home from the time he was two years old .
5 There is no reason to believe any of the raiders were aboard at the time , although two rumours have persisted through the years .
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