Example sentences of "[modal v] be [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ok , normally what we do is to charge erm , erm the lowest charge is fifty pence per mile ok , so that 'll be from the time it leaves here in London till the time it returns . |
| 2 | Queen 's student Donnelly excelled at Lurgan and won his first Northern Ireland Cross Country title a few weeks ago , but is still not fully fit , although he could be by the time of the Belfast race . |
| 3 | By the Land Registration Act 1925 ( s70(1) ) : All registered land shall … be deemed to be subject to such of the following overriding interests as may be for the time being subsisting in reference thereto . |
| 4 | It may be at the time that they hear the person is going to die ; it may be when they suddenly recognize that the person has become very ill ; it can be at almost any stage when the threat of loss comes into their mind . |
| 5 | She tried to imagine what John would be doing ; it would be past the time for office tea but not yet time to go home . |
| 6 | This would mean that the contracting phase would be like the time reverse of the expanding phase . |
| 7 | Among the revelations will be of the time Cecil Parkinson swore at her in a Cabinet meeting , Kenneth Clarke telling how she used her femininity as a weapon in meetings , and Norman Tebbit and Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten talking about the horrors concealed in that famous handbag . |
| 8 | ‘ Not yet , ’ put in the thin man , ‘ but they will be by the time we 're back there . |
| 9 | The prices , on the whole , are about right , and certainly will be by the time the discounts get their hands on them . |
| 10 | Or what it will be by the time I 've finished this job . |
| 11 | Well they said they will , they think will be by the time they 've paid up cos they had n't really paid up for , for last years yet ! |