Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor does it matter whether the tenant may give notice after the last date for service of a rent review notice ( Coventry CC v J Hepworth & Son Ltd ( 1982 ) 265 EG 608 ) or at a time which coincides with time during which a landlord may serve such a notice ( Legal & General Assurance ( Pension Management ) Ltd v Cheshire CC ) . |
| 2 | At the same time , in political terms , Costa Rica has been drawn much more closely into the US sphere of influence during the 1980s , moving away from the neutral stance it previously took , so that for a time it was one of the host countries for the US-backed Nicaraguan Contras . |
| 3 | Li Yuan stood at the rail , looking out across the darkness of the lake , his sense of ease , of inner stillness , lulling him so that for a time he seemed aware only of the dull murmur of the voices behind him and the soft lapping of the water against the wooden posts of the jetty . |
| 4 | Of course , she too eventually left my staff to get married , but I can vouch that during the time she worked as housekeeper under me , she was nothing less than dedicated and never allowed her professional priorities to be distracted . |
| 5 | Although for a time they were merely raiders , these Celtic cousins had ambitions to acquire land and permanent residence , and were as ready to fight the Picts as to co-operate with them . |
| 6 | Relations between Modi and Madame Hébuterne became so strained , with Jeanne refusing to give him up and Madame cursing him and his art , that after a time he moved away to stay in the Hôtel Tarelli , 5 Rue de France . |
| 7 | On returning she is guaranteed a job at the same level and of similar content to the one she left , but ‘ the plan is that nearer the time I start to discuss my return with management and personnel ’ . |
| 8 | So seriously , too , did I take myself in it , that from the time I was sixteen I found myself hardly letting a week pass without writing one or two descriptions — of a man , or a place , or a walk — in a manner largely founded on Jefferies ' Amateur Poacher , Kingsley 's Prose Idylls , and Mr. Francis A. Knight 's weekly contributions to the Daily News , but doubtless with tones supplied also by Shelley and Keats , and later on by Ruskin , De Quincey , Pater , and Sir Thomas Browne … |
| 9 | It seemed that in no time she was forced indoors by huge raindrops that appeared to have come from nowhere . |
| 10 | I judge that in the time it takes the lift to creep the height of the building I have to be out the door and on my way . |
| 11 | ‘ Mr Stevens , I may not have been a housekeeper for long , but I would say that in the time I have been , my abilities have attracted some very generous remarks . ’ |
| 12 | Although at the time they were made up of an apparently infinite chain of familiar days , I can think of them now only as a whole . |
| 13 | particularly erm , and one of things that I did find in Gaugin 's painting of Von Gogh was that erm , er , erm , depression really , I , I could see it there and the des desolation very much as if he was looking in on somebody who was in that position er , although at the time I do n't thing Gaugin and , er Von Gogh himself knew it |
| 14 | Although at the time he was ‘ not a great fan of industrial specialism' , his views have changed . |
| 15 | " Able-Oboe-Charlie " was the aircrew phonetics used by the early Pathfinders to identify their Commandant , although at the time he was officially a Commander of the Pathfinder Force , with the acting rank of group captain under the control of No 3 Group for day-to-day administration . |
| 16 | His shock resignation was shrouded in mystery , although at the time his reasons were given as being ‘ personal and due to family matters . ’ |
| 17 | Although at the time it was seen as no more than the correction of an anomaly , only at the Labour Party 's annual conference in 1979 was the formal position of the Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party brought into line with the de facto position by his being accorded the title of ‘ Leader of the Labour Party ’ . |
| 18 | So George , a carpenter , bought his primary school teacher wife her first ewes , although at the time she admitted ‘ not knowing one end of a sheep from the other . ’ |
| 19 | Some officers can now see that at the time they were " typical colonialists " who failed to read the signs of the tinies or entrust positions of authority more readily to African leadership . |
| 20 | All I can say is that at the time everything fitted together perfectly into so glaringly obvious a pattern that I was amazed I had never seen it before . |
| 21 | With hindsight , it is clear that at the time we did not fully grasp the real significance of the workers ' position . |
| 22 | and we have yet to be contacted erm despite th the fact that at the time we had our last meeting the thing was supposed to be in the post . |
| 23 | by the marriage of the testator , unless it appears from the will that at the time it was made the testator was expecting to be married to a particular person , and that he intended that the will ( or a particular disposition in the will ) should not be revoked by that marriage , and that marriage takes place . |
| 24 | It 's just that at the time it all seemed so beautiful and important , it was like some kind of historical event . |
| 25 | Now , the fact of a past service raises an implication that at the time it was rendered it was to be paid for , and , if it was a service which was to be paid for , when you get in the subsequent document a promise to pay , that promise may be treated either as an admission which evidences or as a positive bargain which fixes the amount of that reasonable remuneration on the faith of which the service was originally rendered . |
| 26 | I was so surprised that at the time I uttered no word . |
| 27 | Whether or not those complaints were justified is another matter ; enough that at the time I felt they were . |
| 28 | And he revealed : ‘ A deal was agreed with Frank Williams before that race in front of a witness and I have to say that at the time I felt very , good about racing again with Williams in 1993 . |
| 29 | A line constructed through the centres of the two circles cuts the left hand circle at Bishops Cannings and I must admit that at the time I did the preparation for the article thought little more about this point . |
| 30 | I burst out laughing because all the costermongers in the Whitechapel Road always did whenever they heard that word , although I admit that at the time I did n't have a clue what a virgin was . |