Example sentences of "be in [noun sg] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The windows were also provided with louvred shutters which could be removed and stored when not in use ; these shutters may have been in place at the time of capture . |
| 2 | Bear in mind that issues should reflect fundamental concerns ( in relation to the level of study ) , and might also include those problems that arise frequently , or are in vogue at the time of the study . |
| 3 | A contract for the sale of future goods is not made on any false assumption that the goods are in existence at the time of the contract . |
| 4 | The property , it is thought , must already be in existence at the time when it was obtained . |
| 5 | What the mother finally decides to do will probably result from the opinion of someone else — whether that someone is her own mother , the local midwife or whichever childcare expert happens to be in vogue at the time . |
| 6 | One of the richest made for Julius II later escaped the sack of Rome because it happened to be in pawn at the time . |
| 7 | students registered in an electronics , electrical/electronic or other kind of engineering department were slightly less likely to be in employment at the time of the survey than those in other kinds of department ; |
| 8 | Deferred tax is to be provided , using the liability method , on all timing differences which are expected to reverse in the future at rates of tax likely to be in force at the time of the reversal . |
| 9 | The making of a care order will automatically discharge any supervision order , school attendance order or s8 order which may be in force at the time ( s91(2) ( 3 ) ( 5 ) ) . |
| 10 | We first met him at an elegant hotel in the ‘ uptown ’ district of Manhattan , New York , overlooking Central park , a watering place well known to artists ( Joe Cocker also happened to be in residence at the time ) . |
| 11 | The rarer survivals can add an altogether different dimension to our understanding of the period , and serve to sharpen our awareness of the difficulty of establishing precisely how rare certain items were in society at the time . |
| 12 | In general , though , thinking was retarded by the dichotomous classifications that were in use at the time . |
| 13 | Five interviewees were in custody at the time of the interview ( two in prison , one in detention centre , and two on remand ) and six preferred to be interviewed outside the family home ( four at the Drugs Council and two in a local community centre ) principally to prevent their families from finding out about their habit . |
| 14 | Er it it take a view on that er appeal he will take into account the er development plan forces which were in force at the time . |
| 15 | The report highlights as a major problem the fact that only three of the works staff were in post at the time of the inspection . |
| 16 | Old liability insurance policies that were in effect at the time of the relevant incidents can be valuable . |
| 17 | In Conservative thinking , the production of internationally tradable goods is the least appropriate activity for public ownership , and the end of nationalized manufacture in the UK is in sight at the time of writing ( late 1989 ) . |
| 18 | The Court of Victoria rightly rejected the contention that a careless act can never give rise to a cause of action in negligence unless there is in existence at the time of the act a legal person affected by it who can sue . |
| 19 | A bishop who is in office at the time the Canon becomes law may declare that in his diocese no woman is to be ordained priest or ( with minor exceptions ) minister as a priest . |
| 20 | It has been suggested that Penda 's political power was in eclipse at the time and that Eowa was the dominant ruler among the Mercians as a subject king of the northern Angles from the mid-630s until his death , possibly in Oswald 's army , in the battle at Maserfelth , but there is no reason why Penda and Eowa should not have been ruling jointly , with Eowa as king possibly of the northern Mercians and Penda as king of the southern . |
| 21 | I know Marie Thwaites was in service at the time she was courting John . |
| 22 | Where the nuisance was in existence at the time the abatement notice was served , and continued or was likely to recur at the time proceedings for a nuisance order began then whether or not it was continuing or was likely to recur at the date of the hearing , the court must also order the defendant to pay the local authority the cost of the proceedings to obtain the nuisance order . |
| 23 | The judge referred to a previous decision of his , In re H. ( Minor ) ( Abduction ) [ 1990 ] 2 F.L.R. 439 , but he said that that was to be distinguished because in that case there was in existence at the time of the removal an order of the court that the child should not be removed from the jurisdiction . |
| 24 | If no lease was in existence at the time when the accused made the false representation , it is believed that the accused would not be guilty under s.15 of obtaining possession of the land by deception because he would not have the intention permanently to deprive . |
| 25 | She was in credit at the time too . |
| 26 | If the plaintiff was in possession at the time of the conversion , the defendant could not set up the jus tertii , unless he was acting under the authority of the true owner . |
| 27 | In De Martell , the plaintiff 's complaint is of negligence by medical staff when the plaintiff 's mother was in labour at the time of her delivery and his birth . |
| 28 | What Mr Major should have said , if he was intent on justifying his decision , was that many of the executions were grotesque by any civilised standards , but that they accorded with the code of discipline that was in force at the time . |
| 29 | The tribunal was influenced by the facts that the offence was unconnected with his job and he was given no opportunity to state his own case because he was in prison at the time of the dismissal decision . |
| 30 | I think one thing that blindfolded us a bit was the fact that the river was in spate at the time and if she had fallen in she 'd have been washed out to sea . |