Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I can , if he lets me have his space we do n't have to worry too much about the time and go about er just after nine or something . |
| 2 | He tries to play his best all of the time and plays to win . |
| 3 | He tries to play his best all of the time and plays to win . |
| 4 | We all use them much of the time and could not do without them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Geoclock UK is a shareware program that shows a coloured map of the earth together with the time and date ( which is based on the time on your PC 's clock ) . |
| 7 | Geoclock UK is a shareware program that shows a coloured map of the earth together with the time and date ( which is based on the time on your PC 's clock ) . |
| 8 | ‘ For purely practical reasons we do not permit debates in either House to be cited : it would add greatly to the time and expense involved in preparing cases involving the construction of a statute if counsel were expected to read all the debates in Hansard , and it would often be impracticable for counsel to get access to at least the older reports of debates in Select Committees of the House of Commons ; moreover , in a very large proportion of cases such a search , even if practicable , would throw no light on the question before the court . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | I mean , I did n't think so at the time but when I think of it you know , and later when I came back after the war we , oh my God ! |
| 11 | If you wish to apply for such a pass , please do so at the time or order , giving the following details and indicate whether or not your order is dependent on the allocation of a Vehicle Pass : Date required , Vehicle registration number , Vehicle type , Drivers ’ name or organisation , Number of persons with disabilities and total number of passengers . |
| 12 | Yes , well er I was saying er it was this Mr I think it was , but it was to do with er a big firm in at the time and they wanted er some locks at Liverpool |
| 13 | A lrge percentage of the parachutes used by British airborne servicemen were inside at the time and destroyed at a cost of more than nineteen million pounds . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Of course , she gets away with it most of the time because she 's so pretty . |
| 16 | a little bit , but not a great deal those gears most of the time as well the ones that we cruise in top gear I do n't think that 's really for me |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Poor Jasper happened to be curled up asleep some five feet away at the time and was rudely awakened . |
| 20 | ‘ That is what Martin says ; he was some distance away at the time and was n't able to see who it was . ’ |
| 21 | It remains a subject of some curiosity that this apparently exceptional event occurred just at the time that the Greenpeace boat was moored offshore . |
| 22 | This idea is not very palatable : why should the Sun be anomalous just at the time that we start to search for neutrinos ? |
| 23 | Such socialising had significance not just at the time but for the future , for table-fellowship was , in Jesus ' thinking , an anticipation of that great feast which will mark the consummation of the Kingdom . |
| 24 | Er not at the time that you did it . |
| 25 | This may cost more at the time but could save a good deal of money in the long run . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | One infusion came from Cambridge economist Bob Rowthorne , still nominally a member of the International Socialists , but moving , unfashionably for the time but a precursor of things to come , towards the Communist Party . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This chapter investigates how that world appeared to the players and the lookers on , both at the time and afterwards . |
| 30 | Something was happening in Britain that allowed the period to be plausibly described , both at the time and later , as permissive . |