Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] the time " in BNC.

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1 Where you have your main account depends very much on where you are most of the time .
2 situational humour , ie funny within the context of the situation people are in at the time so that people can relate to it through a common , shared experience
3 For the mobile unit , it must be well built and braced to allow for moving over uneven ground , if the birds are in at the time , then the extra weight on the floor will be 204 kg for the 100 bird house and 409 kg for the 200 bird house .
4 He 'd been away at the time of the murder but if , as seemed likely , he 'd been having an affair with Angy … suppose he was married and his wife had found out , and taken the opportunity while her husband was absent to do away with her rival ?
5 We are not at the time of business , we are here to affirm the call !
6 WELL , we 're back to the time of year when , hopefully , it will be warm and dry enough to get a barbecue organised .
7 This could result in a fire flaring up , causing possible injury and , especially if you are out at the time , widespread damage .
8 Sheriff Brian Lockhart , who is presiding over the fatal accident inquiry , asked whether the Newton plans , referred to throughout five weeks of the inquiry so far as ‘ single lead ’ had not been considered to be so at the time .
9 They had an interest in playing golf together so specifically formed a society giving it the name of the road they happened to be in at the time — Worple Way , Harrow .
10 There would be a lot of damage and a few people would get hurt , but the lads would be away by the time the police could get round to the place .
11 All the sex would be over by the time Gina came back .
12 It would all be over by the time he got there !
13 Many of the meetings listed on that page will be over by the time this gets to you but the details are given as a way of providing a background of work in progress and ideas for future programmes for all the groups .
14 But , as HEATHER KIDD reports , the rebuilding process should be underway by the time the Wallabies arrive .
15 Redwood Shores , California-based Oracle Corp has joined the Greek chorus to say that it plans to convert its complete family of products to run on Alpha architecture under both OpenVMS and DEC OSF/1 ; the conversion effort on the VMS products is under way and should be out by the time DEC starts ships .
16 But if you were old enough to be around at the time , reactions like ‘ Well , of course , the political circumstances were such that … ’ , and ‘ Yes , I have to admit I took offence to that ’ are more likely , and cause one to take a more considered and less dogmatic view .
17 I 'd rather be around at the time
18 We got all the details from Peggy , who happened to be there at the time , when she popped down later to the Met Office for a reviving cup of coffee and dash of medicinal brandy .
19 And er we were on that for about an hour or so and then they got rid of the the badly injured were taken off then and put on the Therris it 's support vessel that was Just happened to be there at the time .
20 You will be there from the time it opens in the morning , until the evening , when our coach will be waiting to drive you back to your hotel .
21 You will be there from the time it opens in the morning , until the evening , when your coach will be waiting to drive you back to your hotel .
22 You will be there from the time it opens in the morning until the evening , when your coach will be waiting to drive you back to your hotel .
23 They just put me up for it and I just happened to be about at the time .
24 Jean , surely , had been here at the time of the murder .
25 If you ask medical staff how often they have seen someone die , rather than if they have been around at the time , surprisingly few will say they witnessed the actual event .
26 Had he been around at the time of my capture I do n't believe I 'd have made it very far .
27 For those of us old enough to have been around at the time of the birth of rock ‘ n ’ roll , the idea of an advanced course in the music which made both us and our parents jump ( but in opposite directions ) may be hard to accommodate .
28 If International had been around at the time of the Vikings , there 's little doubt whose paint would have been used to keep those marauding longships in prime condition .
29 She 'd been there at the time he 'd wanted a woman .
30 If Deaconess Tilley had n't been there at the time , she might have found an excuse to say no .
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