Example sentences of "be the [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may have been the situation at the time of Domesday Book and it may be that a nucleated village was not established until late Saxon times or the twelfth century . |
| 2 | The most up-to-date figures present a less black picture than was thought to be the case at the time . |
| 3 | Negative attitudes to ageing may , in part , be the result of the time lag between social change and a change in people 's attitudes . |
| 4 | This is the Government for the time being . |
| 5 | From a refereeing point of view , when the maul becomes stationary the time allowed for the ball to emerge is the equivalent of the time currently allowed for the emergence of the ball from a collapsed maul . |
| 6 | What matters is the difference between the time taken by cumulative selection , and the time which the same computer , working flat out at the same rate , would take to reach the target phrase if it were forced to use the other procedure of single-step selection : about a million million million million million years . |
| 7 | It 's the rest of the time I 'm talking about . |
| 8 | However , the whole incident was witnessed by another driver who took a note of the car number and in turn , of course , reported it to the police and eventually Mrs was interviewed on the eleventh of August of this year she agreed that she was the driver at the time and she replied it 's okay , but if the little had stopped after the accident I would of sorted things out I could n't do anything after she ran off . |
| 9 | And if you cast your minds way back to Tuesday you will remember that what I said was that the Americans were trying to create a system of limited government er and yet one which er protected the liberties of individuals not all individuals , not black individuals especially but of individuals , this was the rhetoric of the time and the main device that they invented to do this was something called the separation of powers and they argued that , where political power is concentrated , the potential for abuse is greater so that where executive and legislative powers are held in the same hands , as they are in our system of government , the , there is more prospect of government encroaching upon the rights of individuals . |
| 10 | It was the mark of the Time Lords of Gallifrey . |
| 11 | Indeed , many observers would argue that given the growth of cabinet government , the potential for government to seek and receive such powers is significantly greater now than was the case at the time when Dicey was writing . |
| 12 | According to the MRE , that is right and oaf is a powerful though mysterious germicide , thought to be , perhaps , a combination of ozone and olefins that was the conjecture at the time of my notes , any way . |
| 13 | Maybe it was the opposite at the time . |
| 14 | Financier and former model die in mystery explosion was the headline at the time — and the emphasis of course was on the ‘ former model ’ . |
| 15 | In Trouble , that was the euphemism of the time . |
| 16 | I myself thought that the matter was one on which no degrees of murder could be properly invented and was very loath to move the clause , but I was the Attorney-General at the time and it was my duty as Chief Law Officer to carry out the decision of the Cabinet . |
| 17 | That was when the little woman with the pencil in her hair came in and said that was the end of the time unless we wanted to extend it . |
| 18 | Now that might be wrong but i surely that was the reality of the time , that was the expectation , that was the whole idea that was coming over in terms of , of sort of propaganda and policy , whatever you want to , to call it . |
| 19 | And how big was the family at the time ? |
| 20 | ‘ Was the bulk of the time devoted to the important or the trivial agenda items ? ’ |
| 21 | Another sideline of this erm little secondary education section that erm Arthur was in charge of was the library and erm the Library Sub Committee he erm had to look out for much to the annoyance of erm Bill who was the librarian at the time |
| 22 | Who was the who was the emperor at the time who decided to send soldiers and the army to Britain ? |
| 23 | They 'd had their one hit with ‘ Guns Of Navarone ’ and he was the toaster by the time they were doing the small-time club circuit . |
| 24 | His father was the laibon at the time and he had five brothers . |