Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] the time " in BNC.

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1 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° .
2 But this is a resort that has moved with the times , and today serves as a superbly-located touring centre for North Wales as well as an entertainment-packed seaside destination .
3 The residue of liberty just gets smaller and smaller , until eventually , in some areas , it is extinguished altogether , with freedom becoming no more than the power to do that which an official has decided for the time being not to prohibit .
4 Regardless of a critical report it had itself commissioned , the World Bank has decided for the time being to continue financing the Sardar Sarovar dam and canal project on the Narmada river in India .
5 You watch the bronze figure of the man working the shadoof , which he has done since the time of the Pharaohs .
6 An acceptable theory must explain in detail how this clumping of matter has occurred in the time available for it .
7 The massacre has sabotaged for the time being any resumption of negotiations between Mandela and de Klerk .
8 COMPLETED FAMILY SIZE — The number of children ( live-born babies ) a woman has borne by the time she has reached the end of the childbearing age .
9 and what they hope is that most it has sort of been has disappeared by the time it gets to us
10 Police said this morning that the Nissan vehicle had not been reported stolen at the time of the accident .
11 This would seem to be especially true when the foal exhibits a characteristic that is clearly opposite to how the dam herself has behaved from the time of her birth .
12 In Natal — home of the current Currie Cup champions — rugby followers are desperate for the game 's authorities to accept that their game has slipped behind the times .
13 A more elaborate discussion of such structures has appeared at the time of writing ( Chadwick 1985 a and b ) .
14 Not a word about the Heber scandal has appeared in the Times .
15 Scotland , too , although the state of their sea defences will depend on the course the opening phase has taken by the time the countries meet on June 20 .
16 One method of investigating this area has centred on the time which children take to give the answer to a range of simple sums .
17 However , the question in the way it is posed by educators usually calls for an answer in terms of commitment rather than of attitude in school or in society and the implementation has begun by the time the thought of research arises .
18 The boom in buying second homes in Europe has ended for the time being — the buyers wo n't be back until the UK economy recovers
19 IBM 's recognition budget has changed with the times .
20 George Jones has quoted from The Times of 1880 to show that it existed before the creation of the present local authorities ( Jones 1969 : 150 ) .
21 But following the changes in Eastern Europe and the virtual ending of the cold war this particular danger has receded for the time being , and as a result a new process of gradual disarmament by the major nuclear powers has begun .
22 It is important to note that the preferential creditors are given priority where a receiver is appointed with respect to a charge ‘ which , as created , was a floating charge ’ ; thus the fact that the charge has crystallised at the time a receiver is appointed does not result in preferential debts being denied their statutory priority .
23 The Tory paternalists of the 1950s seemed dated by the time of the Heath government in 1970–4 .
24 You know I mean it 's so annoying and I wish now I 'd done at the time , wrote their names down .
25 I suddenly felt nauseous with anger and humiliation — none of the things I 'd felt at the time .
26 Which , she 'd thought at the time , were appropriate registration letters for her cousin Paul Gray 's car , missing now for nearly two weeks .
27 She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks .
28 He worked in Whitehall , that 's all I 'd known at the time .
29 The vaults were then changed at night or when the bus had finished service and then were counted by a different means , they were counted by machine coin counters and er so , instead of say erm what , sixty or seventy conductors paying in their money , this was all erm on the bus , so there may have been five or six drivers had worked that bus that day and all the takings he 'd taken during the time was all in this night safe in this vault .
30 Charlotte Campbell was more than delighted to have received a reply to her letter for the position of children 's nanny which she had seen advertised in The Times .
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