Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Always have your car or front door keys ready by the time you need them . |
| 32 | It did sound odd at the time . |
| 33 | Joan is growing old for the time being . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Now we have evidence which we will keep privy for the time being which will prove that neither Brampton nor Vechey committed suicide . |
| 36 | For example , do n't choose a raw silk with large slabs , or a handmade paper containing big flecks , as they will look enormous by the time they are enclosed in a tiny frame and will ruin the proportions of the picture . |
| 37 | But it is the voice of Pearl investors which will have more influence on the outcome and they should keep quiet for the time being . |
| 38 | For commercial reasons the exact location of the areas targeted by the company must remain confidential for the time being . |
| 39 | Thus whereas the bare infinitive allows for the incidence of its event to a support situated within the confines of event time , the mechanism of incidence provided for by the verb form itself is inoperative when called upon express an incidence to a support situated prior to the time contained in the event . |
| 40 | Robert King 's series of concerts and workshops are proving invaluable at a time when authentic performance , a long time in its coming to these northern parts , is fast developing its own passionate audience . |
| 41 | It seemed he had become confused over the time I 'd said I 'd pick him up , although it was always the same , and Miss Prescott thought he was a little agitated and so brought him round herself . |
| 42 | So is Tony gon na be staying awake until the time that you finish there ? |
| 43 | The problem of drawing a legal line between moral outrage and individual freedom has become intractable at a time when one person 's obscenity is another person 's bedtime reading . |
| 44 | It is probable that the linguistic differentiation which separates the South Slavs from the Western Slavs ( Poles , Czechs , Slovaks ) and the Eastern Slavs ( Russians , Bielorussians , Ukrainians ) had not become apparent at the time of the migration . |
| 45 | The tradition of Anglo-Austrian co-operation against France , wearing thin in the time of Walpole and strained unbearably by the peace settlement of 1748 , was also submerged by the events of the 1750s . |
| 46 | I hesitate to intervene again , as the hon. Gentleman is getting near to the time left for my contribution . |
| 47 | No discipline seems pleasant at the time , but painful . |
| 48 | A rum evolution , Alix had often thought , though it had not seemed strange at the time : what had then seemed strange , in her girlhood , had been her parents ' quaint socialist ideals , which had caused her such embarrassment , and , partly because of that embarrassment , had inspired in her such undeviating loyalty . |
| 49 | Thus , two new launches had proved possible at a time when new dailies were generally still unpractical . |
| 50 | The minting of his own coins by Beonna could suggest that he too broke free for a time from Aethelbald 's domination . |
| 51 | As Coleman had been at pains to point this out before taking on the DEA assignment , he could hardly disagree , but the risk had seemed acceptable at the time and he had taken particular care to underline his academic credentials whenever he met Hurley 's people . |
| 52 | It seems ironic at a time of mounting concern about the excessive hours of junior hospital doctors . |
| 53 | The search for Fedorov and Louise Müller , which had seemed all-important at the time , had been overtaken by weightier events . |
| 54 | Despite the talk in US government circles only three years ago , of synfuels being what would save the US from OPEC oil dependence , the programme has become unpopular and seems likely at the time of writing to become an offering to appease fears of further growth in the federal budget deficit . |
| 55 | Sometimes our dreams tell coherent stories , but more often they are a jumble that seems logical at the time but is revealed by our conscious memory as a nonsense . |
| 56 | and I thought come into my head , it 's probably complete rubbish but it seems logical at the time which was , if you got rid of er , a lot of the various taxes that they paid and put everything on to VAT , apart from the fact that you 'd be a few , just by upping the rate of VAT they would collect the extra monies , you 'd save a lot of the money you 'd pay in administration costs by , all the various different departments er |
| 57 | It seems providential at a time when good news and dreams are in short supply : 430 unknown drawings by Amedeo Modigliani from his eight crucial years in Paris ( 1906–14 ) , which will be published by Noel Alexandre in September . |
| 58 | Latest traffic figures available at the time of writing showed that the airport had its busiest October on record . |
| 59 | It would not disturb you , would it , if I had to bear our child in this hole , among this dirt — I have hardly been able to keep clean over the time we 've lived here , with only a jug of cold water — and the unbearable food , and hardly enough light to see by when I have to read your script aloud to you in the evening , and then give you your pleasure in the bed every night with that woman listening through the wall ? |
| 60 | Kate remembered those words , and the undertone of bitterness in her brother 's voice which she 'd found incomprehensible at the time . |