Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] the time [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally he asked us to pray to be forgiven for the times when we had misused our authority . |
| 2 | This period could be regarded as the time when our service began to emerge from a kind of amateur status to that of a more professional one . |
| 3 | Private ownership of space to be limited to the times when the persons concerned are actually present , each person 's territory being a mobile entity in law . |
| 4 | In Shell UK v Lostock Garage Ltd [ 1976 ] 1 WLR 1187 Lord Denning MR explained what he thought was meant by the proposition that reasonableness is to be considered at the time when the contract is made : If the terms impose a restraint which is unreasonable in the sense that it may work unfairly in circumstances which may reasonably be anticipated , the courts will refuse to enforce the restraint : but it will not hold it to be unenforceable simply because it might work unfairly in certain exceptional circumstances outside the reasonable expectation of the parties at the time of making the agreement . |
| 5 | With few exceptions , most people would wish to have a holiday of at leapt two weeks in the summer period which for some may also be confined to the time when children are on holiday from school or when the local factory is closed . |
| 6 | Such application may be made at the time when the order is made ; if not then applied for , the practice required , at least in some courts , is that the applicant should certify in writing that he has notified the other party of the intended application . |
| 7 | It is not that primary teachers must become preoccupied with examinations or tests to be taken at the time when a child changes school . |
| 8 | These morning sets would be begun at the time when enough of the young rabbits were big enough to sell . |