Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | Police said this morning that the Nissan vehicle had not been reported stolen at the time of the accident . |
2 | and what they hope is that most it has sort of been has disappeared by the time it gets to us |
3 | To be , if you 're asked to put in a time signature ? |
4 | Work it out of your system so that , eventually , what you are doing becomes for the time being the only thing in existence . |
5 | Robert still felt some confusion about what Aziz and his friends might be expected to do around the time of the little boy 's Occultation . |
6 | To make them indicate seasonal hours , either the rate of flow or the scale of hours had to be varied according to the time of year , and considerable ingenuity appears to have been applied to achieve this . |
7 | During your flight you can relax with a drink from the duty free bar and a meal or light refreshment will be served according to the time of day . |
8 | The method of work has been to get going at the time dictated by the candidate 's first duty of the day and the time taken to get to him . |
9 | It is , however , a very special kind of autobiography , and may be compared to the accounts of their own lives which the early Methodists were expected to write at the time of their reception into the church : in such spiritual autobiographies divine visitations were singled out for special mention as evidences of God 's grace and power ; they were contrasted with laments over sinful behaviour and backsliding , and led to the culminating moment of conversion . |
10 | This was out of 329 volumes which were left after 150 titles were reported missing at the time of the 1865 review . |
11 | It is common practice not to extend the covenant beyond the territory in which the business being sold operates at the time of completion . |
12 | This is something we said we were going to discuss at a time in the future and I thought I 'd stick it on and see how much time we 'd got left . |
13 | Rumours were beginning to circulate at the time , concerning Robert Dudley and Her Sovereign Majesty , Elizabeth 1 . |
14 | And I think it was , we were willing to go back to work and carry on discussions , albeit without earning any bonus because we were working to rule at the time , but it was what happened in er the quarry that really started the strike , when he laid the workforce off because they were helping us , or joining us in sympathetic action , you know there was a lockout up there , so I think that speeded up things considerably . |
15 | Heron shows in his article a deep sympathy with Braque 's work , which , incidentally , was a sort of painting he himself was seeking to practise at the time . |
16 | I had already made up my mind what I was going to say by the time Frankie had rapped on the door . |
17 | In other words , only one gene was allowed to mutate at a time , and that gene was allowed to change its " value " only by +1 or -1 . |