Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is probably a good idea , but it means that you may never know if the food you avoided was indeed the guilty party , because the child is likely to have outgrown the sensitivity by the time the food is eaten again . |
| 2 | Even so , given the equipment of the time it was good going . |
| 3 | We will be asked why , given the evidence of the time , when EFTA and the east European countries were queueing up to join the tighter Community that was being proposed , we allowed ourselves to be left outside . |
| 4 | The marriage , too , had been a miscalculation , but given the circumstances of the time , an understandable one . |
| 5 | The state was independent of classes in determining how best to secure a social order given the circumstances of the time . |
| 6 | These articles were commentaries on world affairs and , given the events of the time , they often concerned the colonial activities of European powers , principally Britain . |
| 7 | He had expected the sack at the time , but strangely enough he had had more than his share of work from that day on . |
| 8 | Talk of Sebastian , but not the financial problem he had left Leith with , occupied the remainder of the time until they had finished their meal . |
| 9 | Dare one hope that the Murrey Report will have alleviated the situation by the time these words are read ? |
| 10 | Subject to that obligation , the LTE was under a duty to exercise and perform its functions , in accordance with principles laid down or approved by the GLC , in such manner as , and with due regard to efficiency , economy and safety of operation , to provide or secure the provision of such public passenger transport services as best met the needs for the time being of Greater London ( section 5 ) . |
| 11 | Intervention by the library committee has prevented the sales for the time being but it will be difficult to monitor such activities in the long term . |
| 12 | Detectives were granted the extension to the time allowed to question her German-born husband . |
| 13 | Do you , he was as close to death if he had n't have gone in se to Ipswich and seen the specialist at the time he did er |
| 14 | New fairs have crowded the calendar at a time in the market cycle when there has been a sharp decline in the volume of business and in the enthusiasm of American collectors , in particular , to travel long distances to look at art which they do not want to buy . |
| 15 | Carter had told the police at the time they had a row over money and his wife had walked out , never to return . |
| 16 | On the other hand a child who was brought up to be bilingual in French and English or who had a natural facility for ‘ picking up ’ languages could romp through his spoken French grades and have reached the top by the time he was 16 , while perhaps having achieved lower grades both in written French and in other more literary aspects of the subject . |
| 17 | They first showed that the inhibitor had no effect on the rats ' ability to swim in general , nor , if the animals had already learned the maze by the time it was injected , did it prevent them from swimming it correctly . |
| 18 | Many of the populace had fled the town by the time when , on one hot Summer 's day , Ben and Charley purchased some cheap fruit in Devonport Market , unaware that the town crier had already warned off buying it . |
| 19 | Not all the Section had finished the run in the time allowed and so Sergeant-Chef Gibeau decided that we should all be punished . |
| 20 | She discussed the problem with Tom but he suggested she should bide her time , adding , ‘ The navvies will have finished the road by the time Anna 's wedding comes around . |
| 21 | He may have left the Daltons at the time of their troubles . |
| 22 | On the day after President Shagari 's arrival in Britain , one UpN state newspaper reported nothing of the visit , commenting instead in an editorial that he should not have left the country at a time when the doctors were on strike : it had been ‘ unpatriotic ’ for him to do so . |
| 23 | An estimated 350,000 Kuwaitis were reported to have left the country at the time of the Iraqi invasion . |
| 24 | She had always left the flat by the time Claudia came home , and she knew her sister was with Roman , and the dull despair that lived with her permanently would deepen a little more as she tidied the theatre programmes or the menu from an exclusive restaurant . |
| 25 | I have continuously taken the view during the time that I have held my present office that it is a great privilege to be Secretary of State for Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | TWW had n't long lost the franchise at the time and the early plans by Harlech , as they were then unwisely called , for news presentation in Bristol just were n't working out . |