Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] time of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Circumstances in which overtime may be used should be identified , together with a list of staff who have agreed to be approached in time of need . |
| 2 | Over 400 caves exist which have been used as food and wine/beer stores , tanning and malting rooms , dwellings and shelters in time of war . |
| 3 | During 1740 the First Lord of the Admiralty , with Walpole 's support , tried to carry a bill to create a national register of sea-faring men from which suitable recruits could be sought in time of crisis , but it was denounced by the Opposition as being akin to slavery and thrown out . |
| 4 | He began by securing from Parliament a fifteenth and tenth , combined with a subsidy , the first to be levied in time of peace . |
| 5 | They dropped from between 4,000 and 9,000 per square metre of riverbed — a natural variation according to time of year — to about 500 per square metre . |
| 6 | A queue is a sequence of individuals , arranged according to time of arrival , and not according to size or strength , such that the first in the queue has prior access to some resource . |
| 7 | In man also , performance capabilities for various tasks vary with time of day , with some abilities peaking in the morning and others in the evening . |
| 8 | As Maynard Keynes explained when he proposed a national scheme of family allowances in 1940 : ‘ at first sight it is paradoxical to propose in time of war an expensive social reform which we have not thought ourselves able to afford in time of peace . |
| 9 | It acts in time of trouble . |
| 10 | The emotional warmth of this novel never exceeds the space allotted to it in a strongly active story but it does benefit by one physical fact of great importance to any sea-story — the constriction in terms of space on a ship , intensified in time of war , the effect of protocol and strict discipline and a lack of privacy on normal human feelings . |
| 11 | For the first time I realized the humiliating narrowness of mind with which one has to be equipped in time of war . |
| 12 | Here is Steve 's mixture from the vegetable and flower garden — the combination varies with time of year . |
| 13 | When Johnson enquired the cause of the difference , Sir Alexander claimed that there was ‘ more occasion for them in war ’ , but Professor Thomas Gordon ( no relation , Boswell ? ) said , ‘ Because the Germans , who are our great rivals in the manufacture of stockings , are otherwise employed in time of war . ’ |
| 14 | A prince 's entourage provided his closest friends , his most trusted servants , the knights on whom he relied in time of crisis . |
| 15 | He told Anne Ridler some time later that such a success almost prompted him to believe that the poem was not very good , although no doubt he was being partly ironic : he was , at least , demonstrating the " usefulness " which a poet might possess in time of war . |
| 16 | This must be enclosed/sent at time of alteration . |
| 17 | For insidious disorders like Alzheimer 's disease , time of onset of symptoms differs from time of presentation to medical care . |
| 18 | Thus jus in bello turns out to have considerable implications for conduct in peace-time , including in time of crisis . |
| 19 | As Maynard Keynes explained when he proposed a national scheme of family allowances in 1940 : ‘ at first sight it is paradoxical to propose in time of war an expensive social reform which we have not thought ourselves able to afford in time of peace . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's awful when you lose a pet , but do n't forget that Brownies smile in time of trouble , and that 's just when the smile is most needed . |
| 21 | ( b ) Mugdock Castle A 14th century ruin ( being restored at time of writing ) previously belonging to the Earl of Lennox , David De Grahame and the Montrose family . |
| 22 | It is not always possible to determine at time of intimation whether a carpet will clean satisfactorily or whether it requires to be replaced . |
| 23 | The army of Austria-Hungary comprised three separate forces : the Imperial and Royal force , the Royal Army of Hungary and the Imperial Army of Austria , which combined in time of war . |
| 24 | Although Eliot considered this idea a good one , especially in view of the articles I had been writing for the New English Weekly ( for example , ‘ Italy must Choose ; and ‘ An Open Letter to Ansaldo ’ , which Mairet had forwarded to the spokesman in question and also to the Vatican ) , he felt that such a book issued in time of war , would need official backing . |
| 25 | The words of the Spell picked just that moment to surface from the depths of his mind , as they always did in time of crisis . |
| 26 | In the case of the Londoners , however , they may have been more vulnerable to plague than were country dwellers , unless they themselves had , as they might , country properties to which they could flee in time of pestilence . |
| 27 | Help in time of need |
| 28 | When called on by government to act in time of war , citizens have been prepared to respond . |
| 29 | At the same time , the reasonableness provision under ss14 and 15 of SGSA 1982 , extends to time of performance and price where these are not stipulated in the contract . |
| 30 | Mind you , then maybe that comes with time of year , mind you , I 'm not doing any either . |