Example sentences of "[art] time [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent survey of church youth groups shows that 1 in 4 have had sex by the time they are eighteen years old , 1 in 10 under the age of sixteen . |
| 2 | Now may be the time they are willing to tell you what has been going on . |
| 3 | But all the time they are hardening their muscles and sharpening their wits , so that the pretence of being grown-up helps them to grow up in earnest . ’ |
| 4 | By the time they are mature , hedgehogs can have several thousand of the modified hairs that give them their prickly appearance and an ideal form of defence against attackers . |
| 5 | It is estimated that by the end of the century only about half of all British children will experience conventional family lives — parents married at the time they are born and continuing married until they are grown up ( Kiernan & Wicks , 1990 ) |
| 6 | If separate bags of nuts , bran , oats and sugar beet for instance are used , all will be stale by the time they are finished . |
| 7 | This is why it is absurd to lay down specifications as to which books children should have read by the time they are eleven , or what kind of mathematical problems they should be able to solve . |
| 8 | The welfare point is a little complicated , because of course you have to catch up the dogs , and many of those dogs will be killed , but the dogs can be treated well during the time they are held . |
| 9 | From the time they are born they have the behavioural repertoire to ‘ shape ’ their parents ' behaviours ; and their powers are important for their survival . |
| 10 | Peter and Paul hope that by the time they are grown up , the doctors will know more about HC and how to stop it . |
| 11 | Is there an in-built element for wear and tear included in the pricing and are all participants fully covered by insurance during the time they are on the premises ? |
| 12 | But by the time they are met , the poor family has already moved several rungs up the socio-economic ladder and wants a house built with modern materials ; not an improved earthen house . |
| 13 | Boys develop within a a similar age range of about five years , but most have reached puberty by the time they are sixteen . |
| 14 | By the end of the century about half of all children in Britain will have acquired at least one stepfather — however temporarily — by the time they are sixteen . |
| 15 | Adults tend to lose this enzyme unless they continue taking cow 's milk and milk products from the time they are weaned onwards . |
| 16 | The reaction to milk tends to be more persistent , but most children who are sensitive to milk as babies can drink it once more by the time they are three or four . |
| 17 | An understanding of this should have been well and truly introduced into the minds of children by the time they are old enough to play such games as those which simulate parental behaviour . |
| 18 | All the time they are experimenting with weight , size and shape in three dimensions . |
| 19 | Gold Australe can reach up to ½″ in size in three weeks and they can be sexually mature by the time they are 12 weeks old . |
| 20 | Equality has been a powerful theme in British politics since the turn of the century and can be seen in practice in the high marginal rates of income tax in the postwar years reaching until recently a marginal tax of 83 per cent on earned income and 98 per cent on unearned income ; the drive to abolish private education and private health ; the ‘ euthanasia of the rentier ’ through rent control ; and the provision of state welfare services financed by taxation but free of charge at the time they are used . |
| 21 | For example , do n't choose a raw silk with large slabs , or a handmade paper containing big flecks , as they will look enormous by the time they are enclosed in a tiny frame and will ruin the proportions of the picture . |
| 22 | By the time they are three years old , young chimps are attempting it themselves , but at this age they are still very inefficient , often using tools of the wrong size . |
| 23 | Playful biting is usual in young puppies , but this trait should have been lost by the time they are about four-and-a-half months old . |
| 24 | By the time they are two years old they are sufficiently jungle-wise to live a completely independent life and find home ranges for themselves . |
| 25 | For example , there are n't too many Russians who can boast to having seen The Phantom of the Opera , Cats , and the Bolshoi Ballet by the time they are 13 . |
| 26 | What I am trying to illustrate is the fact that teachers will mostly admit , if they are feeling bold enough , that they want to feel that they are doing something important , that other people think so too , that a fair bit of the time they are doing it well , and that they are getting better at it . |
| 27 | There are several Mira variables in Grus within binocular range when near maximum ( R , S and T ) , but for most of the time they are much too faint . |
| 28 | What happens to these potatoes between the time they are harvested and the time you buy them ? |
| 29 | Associated with this view is the general contention that services are consumed at the time they are produced , and therefore they can not be stored , transported or resold . |
| 30 | They are home for a week or a month ; the rest of the time they are wandering about the world . |