Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it takes time and effort and the action shown in the close-up may have changed or stopped by the time the wide shot begins , so there may be action matching problems . |
| 2 | On an application to the court , the court may refuse discharge , An order for discharge must not be issued or gazetted until the time allowed for appealing has expired or , if an appeal is entered , until the appeal has been determined ( r 6.221 ) . |
| 3 | The inference is therefore that the fish is either dead or cured by the time fungus gets around to colonising it . |
| 4 | However , the reduction in railway employment was offset by the growth of activity in the Post Office , and changes in bus service employment were less than feared at the time of ‘ deregulation ’ ( 1987 ) . |
| 5 | I expect a Public Sector Borrowing Requirement in the current financial year of £35 billion , slightly lower than projected at the time of my Autumn Statement . |
| 6 | Although hailed at the time as ‘ the most important discovery in England [ and perhaps ] … of greater importance than any other yet made at home or abroad ’ , during the next forty years it became increasingly difficult to reconcile this hominid with the burgeoning human fossil record from Asia and Africa . |
| 7 | Though the next decade quickly reversed the conservatism of the 1950s , the notion that British fiction lacks experimental energy , or even just quality , still survives ; a partially accurate picture , based upon a lapse in the experimental tradition less complete than suggested at the time . |
| 8 | She felt depressed and frightened by the time the shop closed and she was able to go home . |
| 9 | Any anxiety state and/or depression suffered by the insured and diagnosed at the time of purchasing this insurance . |
| 10 | It was an inglorious episode in English history , little remembered since , and regarded at the time less as a disgrace than as a deliverance . |
| 11 | This was foreseen by the local residents who objected and petitioned at the time planning permission was under consideration . |
| 12 | The attention of members is drawn to the decision of the Divisional Court of Appeal in the case of Rowe & Maw v Commissioners of Customs and Excise decided on 6th March , and reported in The Times of 8th March . |
| 13 | She stuffed the printout into her bag , where — somewhere — three other copies were already lurking , and looked at the time . |
| 14 | The three horses on the highway had been caught and tethered by the time Michael came back through the trees , leading the roan . |
| 15 | Dereham had in fact considered that he and Catherine were engaged to be married , and this , if revealed at the time , would have invalidated the royal marriage . |
| 16 | I felt angry and humiliated at the time of the argument but I can guess at how he must have felt . |
| 17 | I was climbing up all these stairs to the office and thought by the time I get to her , I 'll be too puffed to dance properly . |
| 18 | If taped at the time , ideal for both self-study and teacher guidance . |
| 19 | She was there to answer when Cleopatra asked her who she was laughing at , and gone by the time she was supposed to say , ‘ Heigho ! |
| 20 | The doctor had been and gone by the time Maxim reached the little cottage on the hillside above Caswell 's father-in-law 's garage . |
| 21 | In this Manifesto , signed by Malcolm Bradbury , Richard Hoggart , Ted Hughes and Raymond Williams , among a list of forty-three , and published in the Times Higher Educational Supplement , we said that ‘ Students of English at polytechnics and universities often write dull , secondhand discursive prose and are taught to do nothing else . ’ |
| 22 | Where there were only a few birds they were carried in the guard 's van and released at the time and place stated on the label . |
| 23 | The first research and development projects under the agreement have already begun and are operating on target and on time , the partners say — as reported at the time , in April , Bull announced its DPX/20 series of scalable Unix workstations and servers using the IBM RISC , and products are being shipped . |
| 24 | In 1985 , as reported in The Times , the cost of simply storing the United Kingdom 's cereal surplus amounted to around £111 million . |
| 25 | Sir John Donaldson , President of the National Industrial Relations Court , in Midland Cold Storage Ltd v. Turner and Others , as reported in The Times , 28 July 1972 . |
| 26 | McNeill , J. in R. v. Greater London Council ex parte Kensington and Chelsea LBC dismissing an application for judicial review of a precept issued by the GLC , as reported in The Times , 7 April 1982 . |
| 27 | As reported in The Times on 4 April , Bush called for forces within Iraq to unseat Saddam , anticipating a military coup mounted by disaffected generals . |
| 28 | Is not that in marked contrast to the events of 25 years ago this very day , as reported by The Times , when the then Economic Affairs Minister warned the Confederation of British Industry that if it breached the inflation-wage restraint , there would be a prices and incomes policy ? |
| 29 | Where a transfer of value is made by associated operations carried out at different times it shall be treated as made at the time of the last of them . |
| 30 | The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes . |