Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not at all necessary to say that I hoisted French colours , and therefore took the schooner unawares , or that at the time most of her men were on board of the Indiaman ; the great art in this world is , to know where to leave off , and in nothing more than when people take the pen in their hands . |
| 2 | This may be because of the purpose for which the disposition was made , or because of the time at which it was made . |
| 3 | ‘ The rule as to unsoundness is that if at the time of sale , the horse has any disease which either actually does diminish the natural usefulness of the animal , so as to make him less capable of work of any description of which in its ordinary progress will diminish the natural usefulness of the animal , or if the horse has , either from disease or accident undergone any alterations of structure that either actually does at the time , or in its ordinary effects will , diminish the natural usefulness of the horse , such a horse is unsound . ’ |
| 4 | In our last meeting John the need to do a little thing that would the district but I felt that because of the time pushing that wha , what 's his name has said about the erm the River |
| 5 | And that at a time when , as was realised , the stakes were particularly high , when the country 's prospective self-sufficiency in oil would provide an incoming Government with a stronger economic base . |
| 6 | They have argued that Elizabeth 's church contained a variety of acceptable doctrinal positions , that predestinarianism never managed to achieve the dominance accorded it by Tyacke , and that at no time during the sixty-five years between 1560 and 1625 was the idea that good works could be an aid to salvation anything other than a perfectly orthodox belief . |
| 7 | The daring magnitude of this conception has since been obscured by its almost routine enactment in a series of African countries in the 1960s , but it should never be forgotten that India was the test case , and that at the time success in the execution of such a plan seemed far from assured : only a year before Mountbatten 's appointment the then viceroy , Lord Wavell , had been pressing on the Cabinet his ‘ Breakdown Plan ’ , which consisted simply of the phased evacuation of the British from India without any serious attempt to ensure that a viable , much less friendly , government was installed in their place . |
| 8 | Much of what he says about his money troubles and his illness is consistent with the evidence of extant records which show his salary was often in arrears , and that at the time he says he was ill his salary was being collected for him , indicating his absence from work . |
| 9 | At the emotional level , this can mean that the personal involvement is engaged ahead of the action , and that by the time the manipulation is actually taking effect , its originator can sit back and observe what she has set in motion . |
| 10 | Mr McTear , a telecommunications worker and former 60-a-day smoker , is suing for an unspecified sum of damages , arguing that when he started smoking in the 1960s there were no health warnings on packets and that by the time they appeared he was addicted . |
| 11 | Using annual-change figures Champion ( 1983 , 1987 ) showed that the main decentralization process peaked in the early 1970s , and that by the time of the 1981 census the former pattern had to some extent reasserted itself . |
| 12 | And if for the time being , that 's a high price , then that is one of the things that we 've got to accept as part of what 's going on in the Gulf , however painful that may be . |
| 13 | ‘ You and I are going to get filthily drunk , Prentice , and if by the time we get to the bottom of this bottle I have n't got some sort of sense out of you I 'm going to break it over your thick fucking skull . ’ |
| 14 | By his fourth plea , the defendant pleaded that the plaintiff never had any cause of action against the defendant in respect of the £2,000 , the subject of the Exchequer proceedings , which the plaintiff , at the commencement of that action and thence until and at the time of the making of the alleged promise , well knew . |
| 15 | So those are all if you like the background , the things that do change but the fundamentals that stay the same are the design and the delivery and although we 'll look a little bit although we 've er I have to say with the numbers we 've got here today it will only be a little bit about things like question and visual aids and because of the time factor if you think about it if we 've twelve people to make four presentations or we 've eight people to make four presentations time is a little bit different and with with twelve we do n't perhaps have the luxury of time that we would with eight people which is what the course was originally designed for . |
| 16 | ‘ And since at no time have you possessed the prince 's heart , how could I have stolen it from you ? ’ |
| 17 | The spartan nature of camping requires that you live on dehydrated food , and since at the time of going to print no manufacturer has come up with dehydrated beer , enforced sobriety will be a big feature of your expedition . |
| 18 | She had clearly by various decree created a force majeure over mineral workings and whilst at the time this would have appeared an admirable standing , nevertheless the monopoly began to serve , in later years , as a disincentive to exploration and development . |
| 19 | Their joint commissions reached well over a hundred , and though by the time the Dolls ' House was created , Miss Jekyll was nearly eighty and practically blind , being asked to design the garden gave her immense satisfaction , and has left us with an unaltered glimpse of this period of England 's gardening history . |
| 20 | At Talgarth they got wind of skirmishes in the south , and set off southward over Mynedd Troed for Tretower ; but because of the time they had lost they were always too far behind their quarry even to realise the magnitude of the chance that persistently slipped through their fingers . |
| 21 | I 'm more concerned about erm future possibilities , not least the possibility that the , if we fight the next European election under first past the post system then of course there will need to be a further set of boundary changes in the very near future arising from the parliamentary boundary commission proposals and I hope that again that the minister will take the change in in his remarks a little later , to assure the house that this was , because of the time constraints and there are reasons for that that I 'll come to , but because of the time constraints that this was in fact just a one off proposal because its sad that party political considerations that the minister has eluded to , the difficulties that Conservative party had over the Maastricht bill , caused our boundary procedures to be tampered with at all in the U K. At the same time as we 're seeing er a welcome expansion of democratic forms in the rest of the world in erm Eastern and central er Europe , in South Africa for instance we see the erosion of these forms in the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | Of course I must add a , a word of warning here , because whereas once upon a time many people used to be able to ring the Weather Centres or a Met Office to get their own personal forecast , which was very nice , we enjoyed doing this , it has now got to the stage where so many people are trying to ring us that we just can not deal with all the enquiries personally , and we 're looking into ways and means of erm providing forecasts of this sort of nature , they 're general sort of nature , by other means , such as radio and television . |