Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Circumstances in which overtime may be used should be identified , together with a list of staff who have agreed to be approached in time of need . |
| 2 | Never fear , messieurs , we shall have this mystery solved in time of nothing at all . |
| 3 | Now if our assets if by promoting the right to buy , by having capital receipts we seem to have a large balance building up , there is the distinct risk given the sort of policies that this government has pursued over time of a we will be running a risk there , we do n't know what they 're going to do , you do n't know what they 're going to do . |
| 4 | Over 400 caves exist which have been used as food and wine/beer stores , tanning and malting rooms , dwellings and shelters in time of war . |
| 5 | During 1740 the First Lord of the Admiralty , with Walpole 's support , tried to carry a bill to create a national register of sea-faring men from which suitable recruits could be sought in time of crisis , but it was denounced by the Opposition as being akin to slavery and thrown out . |
| 6 | He began by securing from Parliament a fifteenth and tenth , combined with a subsidy , the first to be levied in time of peace . |
| 7 | They dropped from between 4,000 and 9,000 per square metre of riverbed — a natural variation according to time of year — to about 500 per square metre . |
| 8 | A queue is a sequence of individuals , arranged according to time of arrival , and not according to size or strength , such that the first in the queue has prior access to some resource . |
| 9 | In man also , performance capabilities for various tasks vary with time of day , with some abilities peaking in the morning and others in the evening . |
| 10 | As Maynard Keynes explained when he proposed a national scheme of family allowances in 1940 : ‘ at first sight it is paradoxical to propose in time of war an expensive social reform which we have not thought ourselves able to afford in time of peace . |
| 11 | It acts in time of trouble . |
| 12 | The emotional warmth of this novel never exceeds the space allotted to it in a strongly active story but it does benefit by one physical fact of great importance to any sea-story — the constriction in terms of space on a ship , intensified in time of war , the effect of protocol and strict discipline and a lack of privacy on normal human feelings . |
| 13 | For the first time I realized the humiliating narrowness of mind with which one has to be equipped in time of war . |
| 14 | Case I A 009 ( Action sample , Ipswich , costs at time of second assessment ) £ Day care ( 2 days p.w . |
| 15 | at Part III , escorted transport ) 14.10 CPN ( 2 visits p.w. ) 23.20 Proportion of time of development officer 23.38 60.68 Case I C 050 ( Control sample , Ipswich , costs at time of second assessment ) £ Home help ( l 1/2 hours p.w ) 4.38 Meals-on-wheels ( 2 p.w. ) 2.78 Day care ( 2 days p.w. , at Part III , unescorted transport ) 4.70 CPN ( 1 visit p.m. ) 2.90 14.76 Case N A513 ( Action sample , Newham , at time of third assessment ) £ Meals-on-wheels ( 7 p.w. ) 13.09 District nurse ( 1 visit p.m. ) 0.93 Project support worker ( 21 hours p.w. ) 63.00 CPN ( 1 visit per fortnight ) 6.66 Proportion of time of development officer 16.56 100.24 Case N C 512 ( Control sample , Newham , at time of third assessment ) £ Day hospital ( 1 day p.w. ) 36.09 Day centre ( 3 days p.w. , escorted transport ) 35.25 71.34 |
| 16 | Here is Steve 's mixture from the vegetable and flower garden — the combination varies with time of year . |
| 17 | When Johnson enquired the cause of the difference , Sir Alexander claimed that there was ‘ more occasion for them in war ’ , but Professor Thomas Gordon ( no relation , Boswell ? ) said , ‘ Because the Germans , who are our great rivals in the manufacture of stockings , are otherwise employed in time of war . ’ |
| 18 | A prince 's entourage provided his closest friends , his most trusted servants , the knights on whom he relied in time of crisis . |
| 19 | He told Anne Ridler some time later that such a success almost prompted him to believe that the poem was not very good , although no doubt he was being partly ironic : he was , at least , demonstrating the " usefulness " which a poet might possess in time of war . |
| 20 | This must be enclosed/sent at time of alteration . |
| 21 | For insidious disorders like Alzheimer 's disease , time of onset of symptoms differs from time of presentation to medical care . |
| 22 | Thus jus in bello turns out to have considerable implications for conduct in peace-time , including in time of crisis . |
| 23 | As Maynard Keynes explained when he proposed a national scheme of family allowances in 1940 : ‘ at first sight it is paradoxical to propose in time of war an expensive social reform which we have not thought ourselves able to afford in time of peace . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's awful when you lose a pet , but do n't forget that Brownies smile in time of trouble , and that 's just when the smile is most needed . |
| 25 | ( b ) Mugdock Castle A 14th century ruin ( being restored at time of writing ) previously belonging to the Earl of Lennox , David De Grahame and the Montrose family . |
| 26 | It is not always possible to determine at time of intimation whether a carpet will clean satisfactorily or whether it requires to be replaced . |
| 27 | The army of Austria-Hungary comprised three separate forces : the Imperial and Royal force , the Royal Army of Hungary and the Imperial Army of Austria , which combined in time of war . |
| 28 | Although Eliot considered this idea a good one , especially in view of the articles I had been writing for the New English Weekly ( for example , ‘ Italy must Choose ; and ‘ An Open Letter to Ansaldo ’ , which Mairet had forwarded to the spokesman in question and also to the Vatican ) , he felt that such a book issued in time of war , would need official backing . |
| 29 | The words of the Spell picked just that moment to surface from the depths of his mind , as they always did in time of crisis . |
| 30 | In the case of the Londoners , however , they may have been more vulnerable to plague than were country dwellers , unless they themselves had , as they might , country properties to which they could flee in time of pestilence . |