Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 Parenthood is generally recognised as a time of crisis and adjustment .
2 ( 11 ) If a licensing board is not elected at the time at which it ought to be elected , or an insufficient number of members is elected for a board , the Secretary of State may by order provide for the holding of an election or elections for supplying such fault or deficiency in election at such times and in such manner as he may think expedient .
3 Add to this the small but unnecessary morbidity associated with dilatation and curettage , and most people would agree that this procedure is not indicated at the time of a routine sterilisation .
4 If payment in , " in satisfaction " is not accepted within the time prescribed ( see above ) the proper officer sends a remittance and notice to the Accountant-General , 22 days after payment in ( The Court Funds Rules 1987 , r 31(2) ) .
5 The accused is not guilty of that offence if force or threat of force is not used at the time of the theft .
6 If a word is not identified in the time limit the die is passed to the left .
7 Grief will find an expression at some time , and if it is not allowed at the time it occurs , then it will be much more difficult to deal with when it is triggered by an event in later life .
8 2.25:GOLD CUP hero Cool Ground was beaten a long way behind Tipping Tim at Wetherby three weeks ago , and is best watched for the time being .
9 The epoch of blue shift is usually confined to the time when the object is still inside the event horizon .
10 Provided that the sound travel time h/c ( c is the sound speed in the object ) is short compared with the time for the impactor to fall through a scale height , stresses parallel to the axis should roughly be in hydrostatic equilibrium , with the axial stress at any point within the object being that required to decelerate the trailing mass .
11 Applications for these awards are unnecessary as each hotel is automatically considered at the time of the annual inspection .
12 As it takes about two years to convert an idea to law through our parliamentary system , new legislation is often implemented at a time when the circumstances which gave rise to the idea have substantially altered .
13 These days the deal is often struck at the time of divorce ; and usually it 's that the house goes to your wife , for good .
14 Advance details are published in the nursing press ( see Figure 1 ) and local radio advertising is often used at the time of the event .
15 The time taken to reach the highest speed is small compared to the time spent operating at this speed , so a large switching angle is chosen .
16 This time is small compared with the time for a signal at the speed of light to travel from the detectors at one side of the experiment to those , 6 metres away , at the other side .
17 This procedure can be rigorously justified , but roughly speaking the linear flow in B is justified for B small enough , and the affine transformation is justified because the time taken by trajectories to traverse the tubes T or 5 is small compared with the time they spend within B. It is also permissible , for r close to r* , to assume that the eigenvalues } i and the matrix A are constants which do not depend on r , whereas a and b depend linearly on ( r-r* ) .
18 Thus , there is an extension in which region IV is extended as far as and is then followed by the time reverse of the entire solution .
19 In contemporary Britain it seems almost impossible to go a single day without hearing , from some quarter or another , a senior policeman hectoring us on the deteriorated condition of public morals , while assuming the right to deliver homespun history lessons in which the past is lovingly remembered as a time of harmony .
20 Careful timing will also he required to ensure that the item is actually happening at the time it fits into the programme .
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