Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [art] time [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , inference : the picture had been painted at a time other than it appeared to have been , and had been painted by someone who " could not have been there " . |
| 2 | The only real progress has come in learning how to drive those evaluation routines faster and faster , thus allowing larger numbers of positions to be examined in the time available . |
| 3 | While it is true that the longer the period of time over which the child 's language is sampled , the more representative that sample will be of the child 's underlying linguistic knowledge , in practical terms the length of any recording will be constrained by the time available for transcription and coding . |
| 4 | By contrast with diamonds , which were too hard to be ground smooth and could only be mounted as natural crystals until medieval lapidaries had learned how to cut them , coloured transparent stones continued to be shaped by the time honoured methods originally devised for opaque stones . |
| 5 | The old slums in Wallace Street have gone now , replaced nearby by a small , neat council estate of flats and maisonettes ; across the main road there 's a sixties estate of dour concrete so riddled with damp and concrete corrosion that it may be demolished by the time this book is published . |
| 6 | Even when all intended partners of the new firm have indicated assent it will still be necessary to establish some order of seniority and to select the first senior partner : though joint senior partners are not unknown , the better arrangement may be for some restriction to be put upon the time that office is held by any one individual so that by rotating it between the participating firms a reasonable balance is achieved . |
| 7 | Try to decide what are the essential aspects to be covered in the time available . |
| 8 | In all , 838 post-1976 imprints were identified , and in 814 instances ( 97% ) the method of acquisition was determined ; in the remaining cases , which principally concerned newspapers and serials — types of publication which are stamped in a different way from monographs — the method of acquisition could not be established in the time available . |
| 9 | Particular problems are centred around the time available for consultations and the workings of the appointment system . |
| 10 | One or two , their horses killed under them , were held for a time unable to fall , and others slithered into the river , its shore by now churned into slime , and drowned there in their harness . |
| 11 | An important point to remember about EOG recordings made using EEG amplifiers is that they never give direct information about the direction of gaze — only changes in direction — and the rate at which the galvanometer pens return to the midline of the paper chart is determined by the time constant setting . |
| 12 | This cycle of events continually repeats to create an essentially rectangular or square-wave output signal , the frequency of which is controlled by the time constant RC . |
| 13 | The final version of the report was sent to the Polytechnic and — with Kerr assuring the Council that the responsibility could not have lain with the CNAA itself — was leaked to the Times Higher Education Supplement and appeared in its issue of 8 September , under the headline : ‘ Closure threat to poly in CNAA 's toughest-ever report ’ . |
| 14 | It was reported in the Times Educational Supplement that Ferndale Comprehensive School in Mid-Glamorgan issued all of its first year pupils with free uniform and sports clothing . |
| 15 | During the year the University was featured in the Times Educational Supplement ; published the first of its new-style Annual Reports ; and attracted more favourable press comment as a forward looking , responsive institution . |
| 16 | A spare car was in Chamonix and Emerson was the one who went to fetch it , so that he was exhausted by the time free practice began on Thursday afternoon . |
| 17 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |