Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( a ) the goods are free , and will remain free until the time when the property is to pass , from any charge or encumbrance not disclosed or known to the buyer before the contract is made , and |
| 2 | The column for telephone numbers of Melanie 's family would have to remain empty for the time being . |
| 3 | Any sections not reported clear by the time of the arrival of the Fire Service units will result in the Fire Service undertaking to search such areas as an immediate priority . |
| 4 | If the current I1 may be considered constant during the time unc then we are entitled to talk about slow variation . |
| 5 | I was also becoming frustrated with the time I had to spend on commercial projects at BRM . |
| 6 | In 18 patients the operation had been a two stage procedure with a covering ileostomy being closed some three months after primary surgery while in five patients a one stage restorative proctocolectomy with ileal reservoir was performed with the ileal reservoir becoming functional at the time of proctocolectomy . |
| 7 | In retrospect , what I found fascinating at the time ( and this feeling has only increased with time and further thought ) was that all the crew just did what I would have told them had I been able to make contact with them . |
| 8 | The instruments sometimes steamed up , the revcounter failed altogether and the carpet in both footwells had come adrift by the time the car had reached the end of its test . |
| 9 | This was considered revolutionary at the time it was written ( 1955 ) , but case study after case study elsewhere in the country now suggest the same basic pattern of large estates . |
| 10 | EIB loans are usually made in the form of a ‘ cocktail ’ of several currencies , depending upon the currencies which the Bank has available at the time of the loan . |
| 11 | When Harry 's front axle buckled , he was behind a truck A few brief comments on each of these : in ( 35a ) the pronoun I is used gesturally to self-nominate from a group , in ( 35b ) it just has the symbolic usage ; in ( 36b ) the word ago places the time at which the action occurred relative to the time of speaking , in ( 36c ) the time is relative to the time at which the events in the narrative occurred . |
| 12 | Know we got lost with the time zone there because Portugal is an hour |
| 13 | ‘ It seemed odd at the time , ’ the youth went on , unconscious of his sudden undesirability . |
| 14 | Er and it was felt appropriate at the time that that should be indicated on the T the key diagram to be to be helpful more than nothing else . |
| 15 | Almost every major work of scholarship written in the past six or seven years on recent British political history has taken a far more balanced view of him than seemed likely at the time of his death . |
| 16 | Rapid weight loss may have made you feel good at the time , but depression and frustration soon set in as the pounds or kilos slowly creep back on again . |
| 17 | It has to do partly with the feeling , particularly powerful in the 19th century , that the proper role of education , at least at the top end , was to equip gentlemen to run the Empire ; and it seemed reasonable at the time to concentrate not upon mechanics , but upon grand ideals , and the classics were studied as if they were a form of theology , a way of revealing fundamental and lasting human truths This , perhaps , is why anti-science is strongest in Britain , because we took Empire most seriously . |
| 18 | This has enabled DCM to eradicate duplicated overheads — 38 staff were made redundant at the time , although DCM has since taken on another 15 . |
| 19 | Existentialism and all those other topical philosophies of the past three decades , which seemed important at the time , may have given him some guidelines . |
| 20 | It all seemed important at the time , but notwithstanding the subterranean implications , Five Easy Pieces established Nicholson beyond doubt as the most effective actor of his kind around , and he was immediately rewarded with a second nomination for an Oscar ; he did not win it but his very inclusion meant two in a row for a relative unknown , a situation unheard of in recent Hollywood history . |
| 21 | Further information will be made available nearer the time . |
| 22 | ‘ I did what seemed practical at the time . |
| 23 | It was not the huge success that Lotus Development had anticipated mainly because it demanded hardware that seemed excessive at the time — an AT with at least 1MByte of RAM . |
| 24 | If the draftsman wishes to create a lease for a period that can not be made certain at the time of the demise the only way is to express it as being granted for a fixed term subject to a power to break at the expiry of the period . |
| 25 | Yes , that was Cat 's way of life : he would always be the sex that seemed fashionable at the time . |
| 26 | Always have your car or front door keys ready by the time you need them . |
| 27 | It did sound odd at the time . |
| 28 | Joan is growing old for the time being . |
| 29 | It was going dark by the time the shepherd and his son shed their ragged leather milking jackets and carried two buckets each up the stone steps to the kitchen , followed by the two carabinieri . |
| 30 | Now we have evidence which we will keep privy for the time being which will prove that neither Brampton nor Vechey committed suicide . |