Example sentences of "[is] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | One and a half aeons is about the time that elapsed between the origin of the Earth and the first bacteria-like fossils . |
| 2 | So so March the first is about the time ? |
| 3 | ‘ My complaint is about the time taken for the ambulance to arrive . |
| 4 | Divide three hundred and sixty five which is about the time that the earth the sun by |
| 5 | It can be visited from Milan , and is worth the time . |
| 6 | But the owner 's possession , and with it his actual power to exercise his rights , is for the time being gone ; he must recover the watch — as he may even lawfully do by his own act — before he can be said to be again in possession of it . |
| 7 | ‘ in a street ( or public place ) called … ‘ 'Street ’ is defined at section 1(4) Street Offences Act 1959 as any bridge , road , lane , footway , subway , square , court , alley or passage , whether a thoroughfare or not , which is for the time being open to the public , and the doorways and entrances of premises abutting on a street ( as herein before defined ) and any ground adjoining and open to a street , shall form part of the street . |
| 8 | the member of the House of Commons who is for the time being the Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts ; |
| 9 | This is a direct and primary liability , though after an assignment it is normally accompanied by rights of indemnity against the first assignee , and also , where there have been further assignments , against the assignee in whom the lease is for the time being vested . |
| 10 | Somalia is for the time being represented by its interim government . |
| 11 | If his appointor is for the time being absent from the United Kingdom or temporarily unable to act through ill-health or disability his signature to any resolution in writing of the Directors shall be as effective as the signature of his appointor . |
| 12 | If his appointor is for the time being absent from the United Kingdom or temporarily unable to act through ill-health or disability his signature to any resolution in writing of the Directors shall be as effective as the signature of his appointor . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's about the time I turned into a pig ! ’ he said . |
| 14 | Well that 's what Breeze am keep telling me when I got to work in the morning it 's about the time of recession people should advertise more not less that maybe but the hard financial situation of the theatre finds itself in is to find that sort of money is very difficult at the moment . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's about the time you washed my mouth out with soap . ’ |
| 16 | Might the Mr Chairman I was just wondering if it 's worth just mentioning that the , since the Redhill Airport proposal which does include a privately funded motorway link erm point erm has gone to and has been called in to the determination I believe by the Minister , but er we are sort of pending er holding our horses until that er er is nearer the time is that not perhaps |
| 17 | It 's like the time when you were in hospital . |
| 18 | It 's like the time when I nearly drowned in the Mediterranean with you . ’ |
| 19 | He 's behind the times . |
| 20 | The only multiple testing therefore is within the time periods after population mixing ( a total of two cells ) . |
| 21 | ‘ I was very fond of ffeatherstonehaugh 's from the time I was introduced to it by a pal of mine in the late 1940s . |
| 22 | According to the handwritten inscription over the cutting it is from The Times , page three , on June 25th . |
| 23 | The critical phase is from the time the glider leaves the ground until it reaches a height of about 400 feet . |
| 24 | Yeah the main difficulty is in is in the time period because it 's it 's quite likely that I mean I 'd we 'd been we 'd been hoping that the target candidate could put in a reasonable amount of personal commitment to the campaign . |
| 25 | Thus the wave is zero during the time interval — while it is over the time intervals — and — . |
| 26 | It is a contender : a colleague of Ackroyd 's on The Times announced that it was a ‘ sure contender ’ for the Booker Prize of 1987 ( which it did n't receive ) . |
| 27 | Jean-Claude 's went back to the time when the region was awash with oceans of rye , Otto 's to the time when the Demoiselles Tatin were still alive . |
| 28 | They were working in a flat below the old money-lender 's at the time of the murder , but not at the time of the ‘ rehearsal ’ three days earlier . |
| 29 | There was another fellow living at Ralph 's at the time called Kenny Bell , who said , ‘ I 'm sorry , you ca n't come in ’ . |
| 30 | Maggie 's then boyfriend — and later husband — Beverley Cross , became a close friend of Ken 's at the time , too . |