Example sentences of "[conj] in the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | asserted that in the present time the defendant 's liability in Rylands v. Fletcher itself ‘ could simply have been placed on the defendant 's failure of duty to take reasonable care , ’ and it seems a logical inference from this and from the judgment as a whole that the Court of Appeal considered the rule to have no useful function in modern times . |
| 2 | Corbett had been alone with her for five minutes when she died , but Mr Justice McKinnon told the jury ’ You simply could not be sure that in the short time Danielle was under his control he caused her death . |
| 3 | for this idea to work , one has to consider histories that take place in imaginary time , rather than in the real time in which we perceive ourselves as living . |
| 4 | This was no easy matter , it being a crumbly cheese — My mother however did it — I went into the garden for something or other , and in the mean time my Brother Frank minced my cheese , ‘ to disappoint the favorite ’ . |
| 5 | She was good fun to be with and easy to talk to , and in the short time he 'd known her she had shown a ready sense of humour . |
| 6 | The Lord Chancellor has publicly invited the profession to put forward its own proposals for savings and in the little time allowed , the following package has now been put to the Lord Chancellor . |
| 7 | But in the mean time , whose hand has Granovsky escaped from ? |
| 8 | But in the mean time , encouraged perhaps by such apparent signs of weakness , perhaps simply by pressure on their order-books , the Edinburgh master printers began recruiting girl apprentices in larger numbers than ever before during the early years of the century , to the growing despair of the ETS and increasing anger from the male trade-union movement in general . |
| 9 | But in the mean time my wages I 've had last week have been spent |