Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [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 | The judge found that the police had been engaged in a trick or deceit , had not acted as agents provocateurs or incited crime , had provided no market which would not have been available elsewhere , and had had grounds to suspect that each appellant had committed an offence by the time when the first sale by him was transacted , but that he had not been cautioned . |
| 11 | The officers had grounds to suspect each appellant of having committed an offence by the time the first of the sales in which he was involved was transacted . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Detectives were granted the extension to the time allowed to question her German-born husband . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | [ 9 ] Forty per cent had felt no pain at the time of the accident . |
| 17 | Police were twice granted an extension to the time allowed for questioning . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Carter had told the police at the time they had a row over money and his wife had walked out , never to return . |
| 20 | CAPRICORN — VERY few Capricorns have had a whale of a time in the past few years . |
| 21 | Pappy and she , on the other hand , had had a whale of a time . |
| 22 | I 've had a hell of a time on this tour , you know . |
| 23 | On top of that you 've got no alibi for the time of the murders . ’ |
| 24 | The head , which was being given a facelift at the time of December 's fire , has been graced with a new mop of blue hair . |
| 25 | Well when we came here of course we had certain furniture and we just sort of er , er and we , I do n't know what other people did , we just erm furnished a room at a time until we got |
| 26 | For centuries therefore , statute has placed a limit on the time after which a claimant to an interest in land may bring an action to establish it in the face of the possession of another person holding under a later title … |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It still had n't reached a verdict by the time it was recalled at 5 p.m . |
| 29 | Richards insisted he was not pressurizing the umpire but doing a celebratory dance , which seemed odd since as the umpire had not raised a finger at the time he had nothing to celebrate . |
| 30 | Breaking with his father 's strong Quaker commitments , Crowley had become an Anglican by the time of his marriage in March 1682 to Mary , daughter of Charles Owen , a Londoner from a Shropshire gentry family . |