Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was practising this the other day , in preparation for the time when my climbing standard drops slightly , and was surprised to read some interesting facts about myself . |
| 2 | Careful explanations at this time could give them at least an inkling of the importance of the game , and some measure of preparation for the time when it will be no game , but a reality of great promise . |
| 3 | In addition , a " Special Period in Times of Peace " plan had already been put into effect to cope with dwindling supplies from the Soviet Union and eastern Europe , and an " Option Zero " of extreme economic cutbacks and food rationing was in preparation for the time when Soviet oil shipments finally ceased . |
| 4 | If the litigant in person has not actually suffered pecuniary loss in the preparation of the case ( which this sum would compensate ) the court will only allow up to £7.50 per hour for the time reasonably spent in preparation . |
| 5 | Few things are as instantly heart-stopping to a computer user as the time when his machine starts to behave erratically . |
| 6 | I 'm reminded of the story about the time when a British Rail advertising contract was up for grabs . |
| 7 | All of the references given above come from what is called the Priestly strand ( ‘ P ’ ) and as such they are to be dated to around the time of the Jews ' exile to Babylon in the sixth century BC — that is , according to the still widely accepted dating of this biblical strand within the source-critical school of thought ( though it must also be said that my own arguments as developed in this essay and elsewhere independently point to the exile as the time when these blood concerns and rituals would first have emerged ) . |
| 8 | ‘ There was a lot of talk about the time when she and Kate — ’ |
| 9 | The Bulgarian Communist Party renamed itself the Bulgarian Socialist Party on April 3 , calling the decision a clean break with " the dictatorship of the time before Nov. 10 , 1989 , which was a dictatorship not only over the people , but over the party as well " . |
| 10 | People usually start to feel better about a problem when they have some explanation for it , but hang-ups relating to very early patterns of relating between mother and baby which we have been describing may not come to light within the time normally allowed for this type of treatment . |
| 11 | So I went out , feeling distinctly lonely , and wandered through the empty , narrow streets of lunch-time Parma until the time really came to go back to school . |
| 12 | Upon proof of the mortgage the court will make an order for foreclosure nisi , under which an officer of the court is directed to find what is due for principal , interest , and costs , and the mortgagor is ordered to pay within six months from the time when the amount is certified . |
| 13 | As with chimneys , so with synapses ; if they are constructed — or even reconstructed — during learning , one might expect a brief increase in the rate of synthesis of proteins over the time when an animal was being trained and memory was being formed . |
| 14 | The third is possible changes in meaning which have occurred in certain words since the time when the writing was executed and the present day . |
| 15 | The character of the rocks , and their setting in the past geography at the time when they accumulated , diagnoses the climatic setting in which the extinct fauna lived , and climate imposes certain restraints on possible modes of life . |
| 16 | Mr Justice Vinelott , allowing the inspector 's appeal , said that the question of uncertainty in relation to s 247(8) could not be determined by reference to the inspector 's state of mind at the time when the assessment was made . |
| 17 | But there was no talk at the time about . |
| 18 | Frequently , senior executives are offered a termination package deal at the time when they are first told that it is likely or unavoidable that their job will come to an end . |
| 19 | Prima facie these are the rules in force at the time when he became a member . |
| 20 | Purely procedural rules may be binding by reference to the rules in force at the time when the procedure is applied . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) Where an application is made in accordance with Rule 15 by a body which at the date of the application is already recognised under these Rules and the Council has neither granted nor refused a new recognition by the time when the body 's existing recognition would , apart from this paragraph , expire in accordance with paragraph ( 1 ) of this Rule , the existing recognition shall not expire at that time but shall continue in force until a new recognition is granted or refused . |
| 22 | The powerful states of the time normally were empires , and had been for many centuries , though a few shadowy forerunners of the nation state could be seen by 1500 . |
| 23 | Thank you erm well that was a very interesting introduction usual political statements there are many of interest to this County Council and its services , erm their worth repeating as part of the time just to add to the with the labour party er for us prices . |
| 24 | Since there is also other well known evidence collected by Sachs , Kirkpatrick , Zaslaw and others from L'Affilard , Pajot , la Chapelle , Marguet , Quantz , Pasquali , Choquel , Engramelle et al. , indicating that from 1717 to 1775 minuets were danced both fast and slow , anywhere between MM 53 and 80 per bar , is it really likely that it was only during the 1780s that musicians of the time just happened to slow down the minuet , playing only the bottom side of minuet tempos and not the top side then to speed up again afterwards by the 1790s and 1800s ? |
| 25 | It is because I feel that the impulse that is behind the work of the Labour Party is mainly the same longing for the time when man [ sic ] will be able to live in free and equal comradeship that I find myself in line with that party . |
| 26 | ‘ — that she 's got amnesia about the time when she nearly drowned , ’ Edward said . |
| 27 | So at that time , the midwife would only come for a a quite a small proportion of the time then ? |
| 28 | A woman 's number was at the bottom of the Time Out piece and it was with some feelings of fear that I decided to ring it , not knowing who or what I would find . |
| 29 | This , we hoped , would permit us to see the various stages of the project in operation from the time when a school began to plan its proposal to the time when the materials purchased with project funds were already in use . |
| 30 | The police car can be said to be represented as a " welcome sight " , and there is therefore a reference to the time before its appearance which is not present in the sentence with the subordinate clause . |