Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the time [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God give you great care if you should her spare for the time that you are with her . |
| 2 | The earliest mammals ( Eutheria ) , the insectivores , arose during the time that reptiles dominated the earth . |
| 3 | You must think about the time that you have available to spend with an animal . |
| 4 | Of course I did n't know at the time that this was to have been O's last night in The Bar ; and I knew that it was n't Boy 's first visit to The Bar , I mean he did not see O the very day he walked in , their eyes did not meet across the bar on that very first night . |
| 5 | She did n't know at the time that some day she would call herself ‘ artist ’ or ‘ writer ’ — not many teenage coloured girls from the Gorbals in Glasgow had trailblazed a path in that direction , so it was a real exploration into the unknown for her when at sixteen she set out to go to college to study fashion . |
| 6 | ( It was just as well I did n't know at the time that Jack would once have been called a psychopath , which to most people effectively means ‘ murderer ’ ) Untreatable ? |
| 7 | This argument is untenable as some of the most dramatic changes in behaviour by American hospitals occurred at the time that the prospective payment system was introduced , when only 10% of hospitals were private , for profit institutions , and there is considerable evidence that , especially for rural hospitals in the United States , the threat has indeed been to survival . |
| 8 | It was reported at the time that ten or more navvies met their death fighting and falling from scaffolding as this tunnel is unusually high and was built to accommodate double tracks . |
| 9 | It was reported at the time that Yorkshire secretary J.H. Nash considered Fiddling inconsistent , although capable of brilliance . |
| 10 | Interestingly , The Times reported at the time that not enough professional people served on juries , and that manual workers and the unemployed did not ‘ represent a cross section of society ’ made up by juries . |
| 11 | It is clear that all resistance to shearing has vanished by the time that the atoms are balanced on top of each other , which will occur when the whole material has been distorted in shear through an angle of 30° . |
| 12 | One — that ‘ pennant has told us more than perhaps one in ten thousand could have done in the time that he took . ’ |
| 13 | I believed at the time that I more or less grasped the metaphorical implications of this , but after I had put the phone down I found I was not as clear as I should have hoped to be about exactly what was required of me in concrete practical terms . |
| 14 | It is dated December 1959 , and may therefore have been written at the time that Take a girl like you was being completed . |
| 15 | It was felt at the time that the upward movement was out of line with the underlying trend and the latest figures analysed by Reward suggest it has in fact been short-lived . |
| 16 | She had felt at the time that he was ‘ pretty borderline for special school ’ . |
| 17 | It was felt at the time that regional disparities would inhibit commitment by member states to such integration . |
| 18 | ‘ It seemed at the time that he might not have much need of intimacy . |
| 19 | It seemed at the time that meeting the Fracxillians could created some sort of major turning point in my career . |
| 20 | We all assumed that because of the , yeah the media pressure , at least talks would start , but I think possibly the management thought that because of this one-sided pressure , you know it seemed at the time that nothing nice was being said about the management , you know you can almost understand them being reluctant to go into a room and offering their side of the argument . |
| 21 | Generally , one topic merges into another , and it may not be easily seen at the time that a change of topic has occurred . |
| 22 | I assumed at the time that he was crying for the garden and what he 'd done to it . |
| 23 | Because of time lags in the production process , the cost of replacing inventories may well have risen by the time that the raw materials are used to make finished goods and then sold . |
| 24 | I came out of the forces , he was only waiting for the time that I came out , for him to retire . |
| 25 | The 15 day limit also cuts into the time that should be spent assisting clients . |
| 26 | The duration of palliative response was measured from the time that the response was first observed until a significantly lower score was obtained on two successive measurements . |
| 27 | It was odd ; I found it difficult to focus on the time that had passed since he 'd been kidnapped ; sometimes it seemed like moments , at others like years . |
| 28 | Erm and how we can speak to time and how we can control that time and make sure that even with interruptions which is what in a way what a meeting is about a discussion , that we 're able to stick to the time that we 've allocated for the particular meeting or presentation that we 've got . |
| 29 | But Mr Sharp predicted at the time that there would be continued violence before that brought results and is on record as believing an extra 700 officers were needed . |
| 30 | It was thought at the time that the talks would result in some extension of the deadline . |