Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] time [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a fact that for a time last year , there were no statements at all being issued about Northern Ireland by the Labour Party headquarters . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Although at the time some of these vehicles seemed , and have since proved , to be new forms of dinosaur , that did not exempt us from our obligation as educators to prepare our students for the world of work some ten , twenty , thirty years ahead when they would be the key executives in the publishing industry . |
| 4 | He notes that at the time that Hoover was engaged in this exercise , a basic Italian washing machine was gaining market share against a heavily promoted German product , in Germany . |
| 5 | But a defence lawyer suggested that at the time this was the normal practise in football , and Steve White agreed . |
| 6 | It is likely that there was also a sense that higher education on a wider basis could be provided more cheaply outside the universities , though it is likely that at the time any such view would have been based on guesswork rather than hard information . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was therefore not surprising that at the time Indirect Rule was rising to ideological prominence an emphasis on recruiting the right people should develop in the Colonial Service . |
| 9 | The Japanese emphasise the quality of their wares , and rubbish the UK product , while the UK counters by saying that by the time Japanese food is shipped here it can become oxidised . |
| 10 | Occupations always take place on Friday night , so that by the time legal action can be taken , people have already constructed shelters . |
| 11 | Moreover , it must be remembered that the unit is extremely small , and also that by the time that man was struggling with the birth pangs of civilisation , it had already been produced , by the wondrous process of evolution , in astronomical numbers . |
| 12 | I was a New Man before New Men had capital letters , but I feel like an Old Man these days , and all I can think is that by the time this one is through university I 'll be nearly sixty . |
| 13 | Accordingly , it may be the case that by the time this book is in your hands departments may have new names and policy responsibilities may have been moved from one department to another . |
| 14 | Phil , a 17-year-old currently in borstal for a cheque book fraud , and for a time one of the most respected ‘ hard men ’ of the London Road End , had these comments to make about his role as an aggro leader : |
| 15 | Its return to Rome towards the end of the fourteenth century resulted in a schism with two , and for a time three , rivals for the papacy . |
| 16 | Any change would be gradual and for the time local parties were left with a free choice . |
| 17 | President , as delegates will know this is my first report to Congress from the Public Services Section and in the time available could I warn delegates and onwards to eight hundred thousand members , their families and all their friends and the eight million members of the T U C and their families and their friends , a sizeable group of British people who , President , now consider theirselves as past , present and future patients of the N H S , and rightly so . |
| 18 | So , as part of your itinerary , and at a time suitable to you , we will show you around these splendid lodges of which Craigendarroch is justifiably proud . |
| 19 | Because they had to run their local affairs , English colonies were quite different from those the Spanish , the Portuguese , the Dutch , and the French established between 1500 and 1650 , and at the time all the other European empires looked more durable than the English . |
| 20 | But it appears to me that , on the face of this document , there is no intention shown so to limit its effect , and that it is framed in the widest possible terms so as to cover , not only this particular debt , but all other claims by the bank in connection with the Professional and Trades Papers Ltd. , for it is admitted that the foundation of the judgment was the guarantee , and at the time this document was drawn up there was this joint liability on the judgment to the extent of £6,000 . |
| 21 | If at the time any claim arises under this Policy there is any other existing insurance covering the same loss damage or liability the Corporation shall not be liable to pay or contribute more than its rateable proportion of any such claim provided always that nothing in this condition shall impose on the Corporation any liability from which but for this condition it would have been relieved under the provisions of Proviso ( a ) of Paragraph 2 of Section A of this policy . |
| 22 | If at the time any claim arises under this Policy there is any other existing insurance covering the same loss damage or liability the Corporation shall not be liable except under Part C of this Policy to pay or contribute more than its rateable proportion of any loss damage compensation costs or expenses . |
| 23 | cos at the time this report was put together erm |
| 24 | And then it comes on and by the time two or three o'clock I I 'm I 'm a wreck , even |
| 25 | In the next few years all of England 's maritime energies were concentrated on resisting Philip of Spain 's attempt at invasion , and by the time one of Raleigh 's associates was able to visit the colony again in 1590 it had disappeared . |
| 26 | She had been far too busy trying to cope with the sale of the large estate , and by the time all her father 's debts had been settled there had been nothing left except the old Elizabethan Manor House . |
| 27 | And by the time this magazine goes to press Mr Lang is expected to have announced that he is rejecting the Countryside Commission for Scotland 's detailed proposals for four Scottish national parks in Glen Coe and Ben Nevis , Loch Lomond , the Cairngorms and Wester Ross . |
| 28 | Whilst the typewriter is still the dominant method of putting words onto paper the ubiquitous word processor marches inexorably onward and by the time this decade ends the majority of published material will at least be electronically created . |
| 29 | We are already two-thirds of the way through our stay in Peking , and by the time this letter reaches you we may well be getting ready to leave for Sian . |
| 30 | I can only hope that his kind of electioneering cynicism will fail abysmally and by the time National Music Day comes round next year , Tim Renton will have left office too . |