Example sentences of "[that] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pliny the Elder , writing in the later first century AD , says that about the time of Vulso 's triumph statues of wood and terracotta ceased to be used at Rome and were replaced by luxuria from Asia Minor . |
| 2 | It did not help matters that about the time Rowell 's rather reluctant jab at some New Zealand rugby habits was being published it occupied space beside reports that the All Blacks had been over-vigorous — and sometimes over-the-top — in their match against New South Wales at Sydney . |
| 3 | It is little surprise that they are saying that for the time being they will give Mrs Cresson the ‘ benefit of the doubt ’ . |
| 4 | More important , however , was the fact that for the time being other parties of the right — the Carlists and especially the CEDA — commanded the support of those to whom fascism might otherwise have hoped to appeal . |
| 5 | Of its 450 members , 162 last month signed a letter arguing that for the time being Ukraine should hold on to its nuclear weapons . |
| 6 | As you will see from the heading to this minute , I have decided that for the time being we are ‘ the Strategy Unit ’ . |
| 7 | But it is included in the deposit plan of the greenbelt by the County Council , that 's greenbelt land , so I think bearing in mind what the the panel said the other day , I can accept this discussion that for the time being we assume that is in the greenbelt . |
| 8 | But the Coroner says that for the time being , Marc 's death will remain a mystery . |
| 9 | Of course , she too eventually left my staff to get married , but I can vouch that during the time she worked as housekeeper under me , she was nothing less than dedicated and never allowed her professional priorities to be distracted . |
| 10 | On returning she is guaranteed a job at the same level and of similar content to the one she left , but ‘ the plan is that nearer the time I start to discuss my return with management and personnel ’ . |
| 11 | So seriously , too , did I take myself in it , that from the time I was sixteen I found myself hardly letting a week pass without writing one or two descriptions — of a man , or a place , or a walk — in a manner largely founded on Jefferies ' Amateur Poacher , Kingsley 's Prose Idylls , and Mr. Francis A. Knight 's weekly contributions to the Daily News , but doubtless with tones supplied also by Shelley and Keats , and later on by Ruskin , De Quincey , Pater , and Sir Thomas Browne … |
| 12 | I judge that in the time it takes the lift to creep the height of the building I have to be out the door and on my way . |
| 13 | ‘ Mr Stevens , I may not have been a housekeeper for long , but I would say that in the time I have been , my abilities have attracted some very generous remarks . ’ |
| 14 | She found that in the time allowed four-fifths of the adult pairs conversed , looked or smiled at each other . |
| 15 | One has the impression that in the time that followed the war , compared with the pre-war period , there occurred a change which might be called a loosening of manners . |
| 16 | The Council of 500 was drawn from the demes in proportion to their population ( see p. 112 ) and it is now known ( for instance ) that in the time of Kleisthenes no more than one-quarter of known Athenians can be attributed to city demes . |
| 17 | ‘ It is said that in the time of Shang they would take a tortoise shell and cover it with ink , then throw it into a fire . |
| 18 | As seen above , for example , there appear to have been two " regular " as distinct from any possible " ceremonial " investitures , apparently called and defined just below — while Abdurrahman Efendi was Rumeli kazasker ( 958–64/1551 7 ) , namely in 959 and 963 ; and Ata'i states that in the time of his successor , Molla Hamid ( Hamid ) , Rumeli kazasker from 964/1557 to 974/5566 , were decreed in Dhu " l-Hijja 968/August-September 1561 and in Sha'ban 973/March 1566 : thus the period 958 to 974 saw in 959 , 963 , 968 , and 973 . |
| 19 | I hope that in the time of the consultation they actually begin to take on board the fact that we 're talking about human beings . |
| 20 | During our work with this widow , whose husband had died very unexpectedly , it turned out that since the time of his death until the time she contacted us , she had kept herself in a state of perpetual motion between her house and that of her son who lived some fifty miles away . |
| 21 | Mr Lightman said that at the time of the libel trial the defence had no idea that this payment had been made . |
| 22 | He notes that at the time that Hoover was engaged in this exercise , a basic Italian washing machine was gaining market share against a heavily promoted German product , in Germany . |
| 23 | In fact , the evidence suggests that at the time of the great debates over defence and the Middle East in 1946 Britain had a realistic view of Soviet intentions in this area — that they fundamentally consisted in a determination to secure access to oil concessions in northern Iran . |
| 24 | What was interesting about that was that at the time John Brown got into financial difficulties the banks and institutional shareholders took a tough but very constructive view that it was worth helping the company through a reconstruction rather than forcing it into liquidation , which had been an attitude prevalent some years earlier . |
| 25 | It led to a period of sharp retrenchment and redundancies , a situation that at the time was very foreign to ICi which had been accustomed to unrestricted expansion in practically everything it undertook . |
| 26 | Voluntary settlements ( in particular family settlements made after marriage ) are set aside by a bankruptcy if made within two years before ; and even if made within ten years before , unless it is shown that at the time the bankrupt was able to meet his liabilities without the settled property . |
| 27 | by the marriage of the testator , unless it appears from the will that at the time it was made the testator was expecting to be married to a particular person , and that he intended that the will ( or a particular disposition in the will ) should not be revoked by that marriage , and that marriage takes place . |
| 28 | There can be little doubt that at the time Constantine took control of the Western empire , Christianity can have been the religion of only a minority , though perhaps not so tiny a minority as has sometimes been thought . |
| 29 | Though his popular image undoubtedly embodied the broad ideological prejudices and aspirations of the masses — including anti-Semitism — it appears hard to argue that at the time that Hitler was gaining his widest electoral support the ‘ Jewish Question , was the decisive element in his growing appeal . |
| 30 | Kylie recalls that at the time , ‘ Jason was really chubby with a bowl haircut and I was really small with straight blonde hair . ’ |