Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sentencing Clarke at Oxford Crown Court , Judge Francis Allen said he took into account he had not been driving his van fast or badly at the time . |
| 2 | Hermes Trismegistus emerged from Egypt more or less at the time in which Zoroaster and the Magi became respected figures among the Greeks : they will have to be considered together . |
| 3 | I suppose that this is a small matter to mention , but allowing for a slight extension to the 24 hours of the second day , the negotiation was completed more or less in the time allotted — a remarkable feat and a testimony to the profound drafting and negotiating skills of many of the member states and many of the governmental teams . |
| 4 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
| 5 | Well the o , well more or less from the time we got in she 's not gon na go back to that place |
| 6 | In many cases , this delayed start will not be noticeable , especially if there is no important action right at the beginning ; the only real effect is that the shot is about one second shorter than you intended , and you will soon learn to allow for this by adding a second or so to the time before you press the button to end the shot . |
| 7 | Germany and Spain were eventually to become major producers of armour : within a century or so of the time of Barbarossa some of the most famous makers of armour were German , while Cologne became renowned for its swords . |
| 8 | That meant within an hour or so of the time at which Mary Penrose claimed that Riddle had left her . |
| 9 | This does not preclude the possibility that genes are normally transcribed at or shortly after the time of induction but exert their effects at later times . |
| 10 | Indeed in one of the few Scottish studies McDonald ( 1991 ) defines ‘ non-traditional ’ students as all those who are 21 or over at the time of entry to their higher education course . |
| 11 | I now know for certain that Selina Street is n't tucking Alec Llewellyn , or not for the time being anyway . |
| 12 | All had been strangled , and according to Christie all except his wife had been subjected to sexual assault at or just after the time of death . |
| 13 | Multiple ulcers ( two or more at the time of diagnosis ) ; |
| 14 | Settlement can be a drawn out affair and can take as long as six months or more from the time your debt became overdue . |
| 15 | The persons transferred automatically to the purchaser are all persons employed within the business being sold at or immediately before the time of sale whose contracts would otherwise ( at common law ) have been terminated by the sale . |
| 16 | Before the endoscopic era , the diagnosis was rarely made before operation or even at the time of operation and recurrent haemorrhage with a fatal outcome was common . |
| 17 | Not at the time no it did n't it bothered me when it was done because I thought you 've probably done something and the outcome would be that so at the time it did n't bother me because I was n't interested in the situation |
| 18 | but five pound on putting that away definitely , every week , as it 's all paid petrol money , so now I 've got eighty pound , eighty pound is in me , me , one of me purses and that is , it has on , there again , I mean everything , not a lot , if you 'd to go in you 'd see , it 'd have a , it 'd have erm petrol money , it 's eighty pound , now I 'm saving that so by the time aunty Mary comes I shall have probably a hundred pounds in that |
| 19 | Indeed so professional was her performance that halfway through the time allotted to us , we found we had finished . |
| 20 | It should come as no surprise that just at the time when manufacturers were becoming cautious in their claims about what their creams could do , a pharmaceutical superstar in the form of Retin-A burst into the firmament . |
| 21 | Held , allowing the appeal , that on its true construction section 9(4) of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 was a paramount provision which limited all other provisions of that Act and related back to the time of the events in respect of which evidence was sought rather than forward to the time when such evidence would be given ; that since all the evidence sought from the retired Crown servant related to matters which had come to his notice in his capacity as an officer or servant of the Crown , section 9(4) applied and the court had no jurisdiction to make the order for his examination ( post , p. 197F–G , H ) . |
| 22 | We believe that certainly for the time being , the combination of the fighter aircraft and rapier will provide an acceptable level er of air defence with a much reduced air threat to the U K er which now exists . |
| 23 | The fourth plea states that the plaintiff never had any cause of action against the defendant in respect of the subject-matter of the action in the Court of Exchequer , which he , the plaintiff , at the time of the commencement of the said action , and thence until the time of the making the promise in the first count mentioned , well knew . |
| 24 | This was only his second murder in eighteen years , and he was somewhat annoyed by it , coming as it did during the best fishing of the year , and right at the time when his garden was at its peak . |
| 25 | An experience of which I am thoroughly ashamed , and thankfully at the time my crew never knew , came to pass one night early in 1943 . |
| 26 | Without discounting the possibility that sources may yet be found in the mountains of China , present indications are that jade was already reaching China in Neolithic times by the route followed during the Bronze Age and down to the time of Sir Aurel Stein 's travels in inner Asia at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 27 | I 'd of been jumping up and down by the time I got to the |
| 28 | ‘ Nevertheless , my child , you must answer to something , if only for the time being . ’ |
| 29 | dissenting ) [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 790 allowing an appeal by the respondent , the Woolwich Equitable Building Society ( now the Woolwich Building Society ) , from the decision of Nolan J. [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 137 that the right to repayment to them by the revenue of sums of £42,426,421 , £2,856,821 and £11,714,969 paid by Woolwich pursuant to a demand by the revenue under the Income Tax ( Building Societies ) Regulations 1986 , which were subsequently held to have been ultra vires , arose only at the moment of the decision as to the invalidity of the Regulations and not from the time that the payments were made . |
| 30 | For example in a database containing the full text of literary works , each work will be protected in its own right and the duration of protection for that work will be based on the life of the author plus fifty years , or in the case of an Act of Parliament ( subject to Crown Copyright ) 125 years from the end of the calendar year during which it was created , and not from the time it was entered into the database . |