Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is understood that the companies set out in Schedule 2 , are , other than ABC GmbH and ABC Corp , wholly owned subsidiaries of ABC and will remain so at the time of the acquisition of ABC . |
| 2 | I suppose it was good for us , but we did n't think so at the time . |
| 3 | I mean , I did n't think so at the time but when I think of it you know , and later when I came back after the war we , oh my God ! |
| 4 | Red-figure turns out to combine the silhouette-principle , dear to vase-decorators for its strength on the curved surface , with the freedom of outline drawing ; and this encourages its practitioners to look outside the closed tradition of their craft to the work of painters on flat surfaces ( cf. fig. 45 , painted perhaps about the time of red-figure 's inception ) . |
| 5 | If your bitch is not neutered , you should be aware of the possibility of this behavioural change occurring soon after the time when she would normally have given birth , just over two months after her last heat . |
| 6 | Being an MP still carried some weight ; he was PPS to a powerful minister at Defence , and the threat of the General Election had rolled away for the time being : he was someone to heed . |
| 7 | It remains a subject of some curiosity that this apparently exceptional event occurred just at the time that the Greenpeace boat was moored offshore . |
| 8 | Mr Rikanovic almost certainly knew nothing about Swiss law , by which anyone holding an item publicly for three years without judgment against him acquires title , but it is interesting that the visit occurred just at the time when Lord Northampton sought to have the ownership dispute heard by the Swiss courts . |
| 9 | They dismiss US claims that the war is ‘ going to plan ’ , noting only that the multi-national force is four weeks into a war which shows no likelihood of ending soon at the time of writing . |
| 10 | However , as the need for this particular type of system was not believed to be acute , it was not pursued further at the time . |
| 11 | No , it sound a good idea if it do n't fall apart nearer the time . |
| 12 | After that everything between them became easy for the time being . |
| 13 | The area suffered badly during the time of the plague which gave rise to the legend of the Butterstone . |
| 14 | Since there is such a difference between the two documents , and since the Dunrossness District Plan was designed for immediate public consumption ( the Structurn Plan had not been disseminated widely at the time of our research , June , 1978 — January , 1979 ) one could suggest that the tenor of the document reflects the desire to underplay any potential conflicts between Shetlanders and incomers . |
| 15 | Since a van service , operating at fixed times , transports call-slips to the Annexe in batches , and brings the items requested back to the Main Building in batches , the time taken for straightforward deliveries of outhoused publications depends entirely on the time at which the request is submitted . |
| 16 | He remembered falling , and the deck coming up to hit him , which brought back the sensation — although it had n't done so at the time — of the moment just before the torpedo hit Lanark . |
| 17 | It does sound as through some of the rhythmic inflexions have lost their spontaneity and solidified into mannerisms ( they had already done so by the time of the 1978 Vienna Festival account once available on EMI ) . |
| 18 | It does grow less from the time her grown-up children leave the home and this crisis , which often happens quite early in life , often disturbs her very badly ; but still she does not see herself thrown into total idleness and her role of grandmother brings her fresh possibilities . |
| 19 | One difficulty with testing recognition memory is that inferences might be made only at the time of the recognition test . |
| 20 | Lugh had never thought it a good idea , and he had said so at the time , only nobody had listened . |
| 21 | Kirov fell silent , knowing that he had said enough for the time being . |
| 22 | ‘ It seemed so at the time to myself , ’ admitted Edward ruefully . |
| 23 | If they wish to cancel any of the rooms allocated they must do so within the time limit set by the hotel or they will be billed for them . |
| 24 | The shadows had grown long by the time Sandy McGlashan came back from Anderson 's howff . |
| 25 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 26 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 27 | But I am not so sure that I should have recognised what I recognised unconsciously at the time of writing : that I was in a state of helplessness , the helplessness of being a non-person . |
| 28 | The success of Alain Aspect 's team in confirming experimentally one of the more subtle predictions of the theory ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 17 ) came just at the time when , in an echo of the great days of J. G. Crowther , The Guardian published Terry Clark 's report of an experiment in which a macroscopic object can be made to behave , in some respects , like a single quantum ‘ particle ’ , and when these weighty tomes arrived for review . |
| 29 | ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor . |
| 30 | It is unquestionably true that the large-scale employment of women made it possible for certain Edinburgh houses to offer competitive terms in the years up to about 1900–10 , and the argument was made both at the time and in retrospective accounts . |