Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately one was having its innards repaired at the time and another gave up the ghost after operating for all of a second . |
| 2 | Instead , as the Financial Times reported at the time , Ford was making more money out of currency trading than it was from selling cars . |
| 3 | Interestingly , The Times reported at the time that not enough professional people served on juries , and that manual workers and the unemployed did not ‘ represent a cross section of society ’ made up by juries . |
| 4 | Is the existence of a supportive relationship before an event the critical factor , or can new supportive relationships mobilised at the time of the event be effective ? |
| 5 | This means that it can not be ruled out that new supportive relationships established at the time of a crisis might also sometimes be beneficial . |
| 6 | The general idea with pro-formas is that they should be filled in as the procedure progresses in order to qualify as ‘ notes made at the time ’ . |
| 7 | Without the adjustment , it had been estimated that the budget deficit would have exceeded L147,000,000 million , which was the level predicted by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in criticisms made at the time of the adoption of the 1990 budget in December 1989 [ see p. 37509 ] . |
| 8 | ’ The word cratch was until recently in common use in Yorkshire for a large basket , and its antiquity is shown by the fact it occurs in a gloss in the Gospels written about the time of the Norman Conquest . |
| 9 | There is then a carefully chosen extract from the writer 's work , followed by a bibliography , which not only includes references to critical responses done at the time of publication but modern reassessments as well . |
| 10 | Thus , just as place deixis encodes spatial locations on coordinates anchored to the place of utterance , so time deixis encodes times on co-ordinates anchored to the time of utterance . |
| 11 | His achievement was to draw on these two strains , and on the contemporary Elizabethan taste for the kind of ingenious conceits known at the time as ‘ devices ’ to produce a creative synthesis . |
| 12 | It is estimated that by the end of the century only about half of all British children will experience conventional family lives — parents married at the time they are born and continuing married until they are grown up ( Kiernan & Wicks , 1990 ) |
| 13 | Even the early varieties developed in the time of Browning and Tennyson were nothing like the splendours of today , and one wonders what the genius of their poetic expressions would have made of the ethereal glow in the half light of ‘ Super Star ’ ( see page 129 ) , the exquisite shape and deepest of all crimson-black red of ‘ Charles Mallerin ’ or a hundred and one other modern marvels . |
| 14 | Will he confirm , in line with undertakings given at the time of privatisation , that he expects British Steel to consider offers for the sale of Ravenscraig on a commercial basis at opportunity cost — at a price which British Steel could expect to get for the plant on world markets ? |
| 15 | the number of virtual memory segments addressed during the time the processor is available to it |
| 16 | However , in spite of promises made at the time by the then Scottish Secretary , Malcolm Rifkind , nothing has happened . |
| 17 | These portions of the mantle may now be melted preferentially in relatively undiluted form , away from the present ridge , by rising plumes or hot zones because they are enriched in low-temperature melting fractions incorporated at the time of U/Pb fractionation , and because of a lower geothermal gradient in areas of old thick lithosphere where the peridotite solidus is at greater depth . |
| 18 | Whether or not the Communist leaders really believed this or any other of the sweeping statements made at the time is questionable . |
| 19 | Two boys searched for family jewels lost at the time of the Armada . |
| 20 | The losses were in line with forecasts given at the time of Wembley 's £37m rights issue in January . |
| 21 | A combination of two vowel sounds merged into the time space of a single long vowel ( monophthong ) . |
| 22 | Those aware that in May 1989 Sotheby 's New York sold for $67 million a small group of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings inherited and collected by Ortiz-Patiño and once displayed in his house in Switzerland ( notable among the eight paintings offered at the time was Gauguin 's ‘ Mata Mua ’ , a Tahitian composition that sold for over $24 million to its former co-owner , Baron Thyssen , having been jointly purchased by Ortiz-Patiño and Thyssen only five years before at Sotheby 's New York for $3.85 million ) , may ask themselves how will Jaime Ortiz-Patiño furnish and decorate his London flat ? |
| 23 | The Gundovald crisis can thus be seen as a classic illustration of the difficulties raised at the time of the transfer of power from one monarch to another : the dispossessed and those who thought that their status was in question set about making contact with a new lord . |
| 24 | Although many years later Braque recalled how strong an impression tribal art made on him , it is hard to see any direct reflection of this in the paintings executed at the time when Picasso was reacting so positively to tribal sculpture ; even in a painting like the Nu any influence from tribal art seems to have come at second hand , through Picasso 's Demoiselles . |
| 25 | Of the five multi-agency enumeration surveys conducted by the time the Wirral research was completed , two were in northern communities ( Greater Glasgow and South Tyneside ) and three in southern communities ( within Avon , London and Sussex ) . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , perhaps because of the procedural problems outlined above , Article 100A(4) appears to have been used for the first time only in 1992 , in relation to German legislation banning the use of PCP ( pentachlorophenol ) despite the fears expressed at the time the Single European Act was signed that it would destroy the Court 's achievements in this sphere . |
| 27 | Although sources suggested at the time of Craythorne 's departure that marketing director Udo Kaul might roll his responsibilities into the brief of marketing manager Peter Townsend , Brackenbury has been appointed as head of all advertising functions , with an advertising coordinator , Roger Harris , reporting to him . |
| 28 | There is a double stillage with casks marked with the time as well as the date . |
| 29 | A fortnight ago , they wheeled in a surprise witness for deposition as to the representations made at the time — Margaret Thatcher herself . |
| 30 | Although divorce is affecting an increasing number of people , little is known about the longer term social and economic effects of the financial arrangements made at the time of divorce . |