Example sentences of "[vb pp] in time [prep] " 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 | Poised to begin his ‘ real work ’ as a missionary among the wretched of the earth , a holy man at last , he is paralleled in time with Tolstoy . |
| 3 | Keen Hunter defends his Abbaye crown and the rain has come in time for John Gosden 's flier . |
| 4 | Transposed in time to medieval days , where two cultures are fighting a losing battle against the undead , he becomes an unwilling hero . |
| 5 | James V ordered that the Crown of Scotland be remodelled in time for him to wear it at the coronation of his second Queen , Mary of Guise-Lorraine , at Holyrood Abbey in February 1540 . |
| 6 | Fortunately , the snow was cleared and the airport re-opened in time for a Monday morning flight back to London . |
| 7 | I could n't understand how these moments had become frozen in time like that . |
| 8 | Nicholas , who is living with his family in a tiny flat , hopes the damage will be repaired in time for Christmas . |
| 9 | Jackie had a nasty puncture in practice on the 150-m.p.h. straight and though he was not injured , his Matra was only just repaired in time for the race . |
| 10 | The largely vertical tears , ranging from 20 to 60 cm in length , were successfully repaired in time for the opening of the exhibition . |
| 11 | His Opel Manta had been heavily damaged during the Burmah Rally and could n't be repaired in time for the Mourne Stages . |
| 12 | Never fear , messieurs , we shall have this mystery solved in time of nothing at all . |
| 13 | I met R. D. Case afterwards — he was on the Westminster Gazette at that time — and he told me that Stanford was so drunk that he 'd almost fallen into the gravel Apparently he 'd just been caught in time by George Watson-Forbes , who later wrote a remarkable series of articles in the Daily News on the Home Rule question . ’ |
| 14 | The road network in Northern France is also being upgraded in time for 1993 following the announcement of a major investment plan by the national government on January 22 1986 . |
| 15 | Nobody had wanted to be regularly policed as people were abroad , preferring to leave it to the magistrates to swear in special constables as they 'd always done in times of civil disturbance , or use the troops . |
| 16 | That necessary ditching , in all likelihood , will now be done in time for the next election . |
| 17 | And are you sure that you can get your bit done in time for him to continue ? |
| 18 | Any spontaneous pull to which he yields ( for example , a proneness due to laziness to exaggerate the difficulty of getting things done in time for the earlier flight ) will merely bias his judgement ; in the pure choice of means you either choose rationally or surrender to the spontaneous . |
| 19 | Although a handful of poems were written in times of solitude or loneliness , the great bulk of her poetry was written for Freemantle or for other friends . |
| 20 | Admittedly the zeal with which trades unions seek to achieve increases in the money wages of their members is likely to be tempered in times of rising unemployment , an outcome which is also predicted in the more formal models of hysteresis . |
| 21 | Some of this exuberance was tempered in time by a greater appreciation of just how much of the world economy would have to be rebuilt after the war , and of the range of obstacles which stood in the way of the realization of the dream of " unhampered trade " . |
| 22 | Your new patio will be designed and built in time for spring when you can really enjoy it to the full . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The puddings are unpacked in the morning , driven over to the hospital kitchens for steaming and collected in time for dinner . |
| 25 | He began by securing from Parliament a fifteenth and tenth , combined with a subsidy , the first to be levied in time of peace . |
| 26 | Expansion continued , with the famous Victoria Hotel added in 1862 but it was the intention of the MS & L to reach London with its own line and in 1897 the name Great Central was adopted in time for the opening of the main line to Marylebone in April 1899 . |
| 27 | Perhaps the decision to accept covered pitches in the Championship in 1981 will be seen in time as the inevitable pre-cursor to the preference now for four-day games . |
| 28 | Orders placed during August are unlikely to be supplied in time for the start of the Session on . |
| 29 | Within a medieval siege tent you are transported in time to the castle keep ; the lights dim and the 1066 Story begins … projected images , lighting , multi-track sound and even an appearance by King Harold and William the Conqueror ! |
| 30 | The decision will be made in early May and the cards produced in time for the major summer shows in Wales . |