Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the time that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humans are not the only animals to display the habit known as pair-bonding — the practice whereby parents stay together throughout the time that their offspring require to attain adulthood . |
| 2 | Mr Mazowiecki also said pointedly at the time that he was not prepared to replace one philosophically biased government ( a communist one ) with another philosophically biased government ( an avowedly Catholic one ) . |
| 3 | It enables individuals to overcome some of the accessibility/mobility problems outlined above ; they can come and go largely as they please , use the services they wish and enjoy a wide range of social , business and leisure contacts , conditioned only by the time that is available for driving from place to place and the running costs of the vehicle . |
| 4 | He could n't really complain too much ; not after the time that he 'd run his patrol car into a ditch only three weeks into his new appointment , and the Middlemass girl ( 14 ) had turned up with a chain and towed him out . |
| 5 | dissenting ) [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 790 allowing an appeal by the respondent , the Woolwich Equitable Building Society ( now the Woolwich Building Society ) , from the decision of Nolan J. [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 137 that the right to repayment to them by the revenue of sums of £42,426,421 , £2,856,821 and £11,714,969 paid by Woolwich pursuant to a demand by the revenue under the Income Tax ( Building Societies ) Regulations 1986 , which were subsequently held to have been ultra vires , arose only at the moment of the decision as to the invalidity of the Regulations and not from the time that the payments were made . |
| 6 | It remains a subject of some curiosity that this apparently exceptional event occurred just at the time that the Greenpeace boat was moored offshore . |
| 7 | This idea is not very palatable : why should the Sun be anomalous just at the time that we start to search for neutrinos ? |
| 8 | Er not at the time that you did it . |
| 9 | ‘ You can do nothing to make up for the time that 's been wasted checking for a link between that incident and the murder of Hal MacQuillan . ’ |
| 10 | If you succeed in finding another job , or already have one lined up at the time that you go , it may not be worth suing your employer because the losses for which you could claim reimbursement may be minimal . |
| 11 | No later than early 716 Nechtan , son of Derilei , king of the Picts , approached Ceolfrith , abbot of the monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow , for guidance on Dionysian Easter tables and the Roman dating of Easter ( HE V , 21 ) — probably at the time that the Northumbrian priest , Ecgberht , was persuading the church on Iona to adopt the same ( HE 111 , 4 ; V , 22 , 24 ) — and in 717 expelled the Columban communities from Pictland into Dál Riata ( AU s.a. 715 , 716 : AT p. 225 ) . |
| 12 | Out of the original hundred houses this was the last one to be occupied and we saw this being built , erm right from the time that it was a plot of land and we knew it was ours |
| 13 | Right until the time that the FRG was included in Nato , the Soviet Union favoured a united , democratic , and demilitarised Germany and was of the view that unification of the two German states was possible . |
| 14 | No one pointed out at the time that radio , like other media of mass communication , leaves the audience with the choice of looking elsewhere . |
| 15 | I mean , that was obviously put in here at the time that we did n't have anything that covered it . |
| 16 | Even at the time that the White Paper was being issued in 1972 , it was becoming clear that the rapidly declining birth rate would have very serious repercussions for the colleges of education ; however , it was not until the decline began to steepen in the mid-1970s that the full implications were publicly announced by the DES . |
| 17 | Along the chain of consequence , from atomic decay to my act of observation , things must have got fixed at least by the time that the cat 's experience entered into it . |
| 18 | At least by the time that the friend heard the click it must have been settled on that occasion that the electron 's spin was " up " . |
| 19 | erm and er , you know as you 're exercising your discretion your Lordship there 's the points in the white book , my Lord in the interim it would be the societies submission that there are three reasons why during the time that it may take to get any guidance from the European court , in the interim , the application of the bi-laws and in particular the provisions of the Act nineteen eighty two should be maintained and er given er their force , because clearly my Lord if there is to be a reference to the European court , matters will take some two years or so before the European court will give it 's ruling that I think would be common ground with my learned friend |
| 20 | Colleagues , er since we meet in Portsmouth , let me begin by pinning my colours firmly to the mast and acknowledging that the one issue that will dominate my comments here this morning , alluding to anything else in the time that 's allocated to me , in moving my report I think would simply not reflect my activities on your behalf over the last twelve months . |
| 21 | Yet around the time that Servan-Schreiber was receiving his first royalty cheques , oriental faces could be seen popping up behind the walls at the Isle of Man TT races . |
| 22 | He was able to assure her that in spite of a few twisted ankles and bruised limbs , those same Jocks were skiing not half badly by the time that strange wartime holiday was over . |