Example sentences of "[prep] the time when " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was practising this the other day , in preparation for the time when my climbing standard drops slightly , and was surprised to read some interesting facts about myself . |
| 2 | This brochure is about : how individual company directors , partners , self-employed businessmen , and people in the professions can provide for the time when they stop working . |
| 3 | Work was therefore concentrated on preparing full-scale calculations ‘ for the time when fast computing machines become available ’ — a sentence which recurs in the theoretical reports of this period ’ ( 1946–1948 ) . |
| 4 | You are also preparing them well for the time when they will be outside your jurisdiction for ever . |
| 5 | Careful explanations at this time could give them at least an inkling of the importance of the game , and some measure of preparation for the time when it will be no game , but a reality of great promise . |
| 6 | I suggest that you have some brine shrimp nauplii or microworm ready for the time when they become free-swimming . |
| 7 | It is because I feel that the impulse that is behind the work of the Labour Party is mainly the same longing for the time when man [ sic ] will be able to live in free and equal comradeship that I find myself in line with that party . |
| 8 | You should arrange a third visit for the time when the agreed schedule has been completed . |
| 9 | This is useful practise to prepare for the time when you allow the dog off the leash for the first time , and call it back to you . |
| 10 | ‘ Because you ca n't wait for the time when you 'll be a married woman ? ’ |
| 11 | It now hardly entered her life except for the time when , in the dark patch of garden below the bedroom window , she had seen the snake . |
| 12 | The most easily dyed materials are wool and silk ; cotton and linen are difficult as they are made primarily of cellulose , being obtained from plants , rather than animal protein , and are better reserved for the time when experience has been obtained with dyeing wool . |
| 13 | Agents were pondering whether they should n't ‘ hang on to thee rights , and wait for the time when they 're equipped to sell them , ’ as conference chairman Tony Feldman put it later . |
| 14 | She , too , had suffered from Clarissa 's neighbourly concern about the behaviour of her child and was waiting with calm anticipation for the time when Clarissa 's children , who were at present eleven and twelve , should enter puberty . |
| 15 | All right , I knew the cockroach treatment was for the time when I made my centipede on a string crawl up Shirnette 's back . |
| 16 | Despite her depression she occupied herself with office tasks , and , although there were times when she dabbed at a tear , she reminded herself that she must prepare for the time when she would never see Silas again . |
| 17 | In addition , a " Special Period in Times of Peace " plan had already been put into effect to cope with dwindling supplies from the Soviet Union and eastern Europe , and an " Option Zero " of extreme economic cutbacks and food rationing was in preparation for the time when Soviet oil shipments finally ceased . |
| 18 | Waiting for the time when profiles run . |
| 19 | Always check the area you are sailing into to allow for the time when you will be facing battlements but when you crouch in the middle of the boat , do keep an eye on the boom or you 'll end up with a nasty bump on the head . |
| 20 | It is that , during the time when Anglo-America 's takeover frenzy was at its peak , financial economics at last got the recognition it deserved . |
| 21 | It was as if , during the time when she had so strangely loved him , she had relied upon Patrick , hoped for him , dreamed of him , run to him as to his love for her : a love which had never existed and could now never exist . |
| 22 | During the time when negotiations with Southwark were still continuing , the Age Concern Research Unit ( ACRU ) had been approached by service-providers ( the consultant psychogeriatrician , the social services department and the local Age Concern organiser ) in Ipswich , Suffolk , with some ideas of their own for a project on the elderly mentally frail . |
| 23 | This Victorian advertisement claims that Carminative Cordial tin which Dad had so much faith ) ‘ saved the lives of many , especially during the time when cholera raged in Salisbury ’ ( 1849 ) . |
| 24 | Paul was helped by Mark during the time when he was captive in Rome ( Colossians 4:10 ; 2 Timothy 4:11 ) . |
| 25 | Growth in the size of the legal profession occurred during the time when consumer movements were coming of age . |
| 26 | As to the former of these points , Nield , J , held that the effect of the Order was simply to prohibit payment of rent in excess of the ‘ standard rate ’ ( ie , £600 per annum ) during the time when the Order was in force . |
| 27 | ( c ) If the victim wants the thing during the time when the accused has dishonestly borrowed it , he can not use it , whether or not the accused intends permanently to deprive . |
| 28 | The distinction was of importance during the time when development charges were imposed , since if there was no ‘ development ’ then no development charge was payable , whereas development was , by definition , eligible for a charge . |
| 29 | All of the references given above come from what is called the Priestly strand ( ‘ P ’ ) and as such they are to be dated to around the time of the Jews ' exile to Babylon in the sixth century BC — that is , according to the still widely accepted dating of this biblical strand within the source-critical school of thought ( though it must also be said that my own arguments as developed in this essay and elsewhere independently point to the exile as the time when these blood concerns and rituals would first have emerged ) . |
| 30 | In academic writings it is probably more common to look to an earlier period as the time when family solidarity was of prime importance . |