Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many are indicated by dedications , but the circular churchyards , oratories , holy wells and inscribed memorial stones and crosses all indicate how widespread such Christian sites were by the time of the Norman Conquest . |
| 2 | my concerns is , my concerns were at the time that we , we might not be able to continue with that statement because it might become inaccurate |
| 3 | He may , where the goods are at the time of the sale in the possession of a third party ( e.g. at a warehouse ) , instruct the third party to hold the goods to the order of the buyer . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm just trying to explain how things were at the time . |
| 5 | Vern Zelmer , now managing director of Rank Xerox ( UK ) Ltd , recalls how things were at the time . |
| 6 | These firms were at the time of out visit listed over each block of filing cabinets . |
| 7 | This only illustrates how very scarce male dancers were at the time . ’ |
| 8 | One and a half aeons is about the time that elapsed between the origin of the Earth and the first bacteria-like fossils . |
| 9 | Many polytechnics were now as large as many of the universities and in a similar , if not better , condition than the CATs were at the time they became universities . |
| 10 | Foucault is correct to identify Cuvier as a central figure in these debates , even if he exaggerates how successful Cuvier 's arguments were at the time . |
| 11 | The bomb exploded , apparently prematurely , in an empty bank building near a concert hall where the band of the Blues and Royals was at the time giving a charity performance in front of some 350 people . |
| 12 | because the cry of the Soviets was at the time , in nineteen seventeen , the cry of the Soviets was not for communism or socialism but their cry , and they had it inscribed on their banners , peace land and bread , that 's what they had there , peace , land and bread , not communism . |
| 13 | In consequence the Crown estates were by the time of his death probably larger than they had ever been before . |
| 14 | After all , this is the New Spirituality ; all the others are behind the times ! |
| 15 | Under the test , the question is how reasonable such clauses are at the time the contract is made . |