Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second sentence constitutes part of the setting along with the time elements established in the first sentence . |
| 2 | Women may have problems keeping weight down at the time of the menopause and after , and men and businesswomen have their own difficulties if their work involves a good deal of sitting at a desk or car wheel , and giving or receiving hospitality lunches . |
| 3 | Practically nobody had a car in at the time . |
| 4 | I 'll make my mind up at the time . ’ |
| 5 | Although most biographers ( encouraged by Darwin 's own recollections ) have played down the Edinburgh episode , the most recent studies have noted that he developed an interest in invertebrate zoology here that was to form a mainstay of his scientific work through into the time of the Beagle voyage . |
| 6 | The most common reason for early fits is a shortage of oxygen round about the time of birth , but that does n't apply in your case , as David breathed right away . |
| 7 | This is fairer as it allows for the fact that fewer overs remain in which the chasing team can attack , but does not set a rate out of proportion with the course of the match up to the time of the stoppage . |
| 8 | I 'd have taken in lodgers only for the war , but the solicitor advised me just to close the place up for the time being . |
| 9 | The report , commissioned by the Archbishop of Lyon , Cardinal Albert Decourtray shortly after Touvier 's arrest in May 1989 at a monastery in Nice [ see pp. 37019 ; 37899 ] , said that while the church as a body was not involved in assisting Touvier , senior churchmen had provided material support and the Catholic charity , Secours Catholique , had paid him a monthly stipend up to the time of his arrest . |
| 10 | At Wickham 's prompting he painstakingly recalled everything that had happened in the pub that evening up to the time he missed the knife , and recited a list of names of customers who had been there . |
| 11 | The joke around at the time was that it would be filmed with a hand-held camera . |
| 12 | Such had been the history of this camp up to the time I arrived there . |
| 13 | Me brother was deputy in at the time erm |
| 14 | The first source of ‘ goodness ’ is to be found in the millions of years of evolution up to the time of the ‘ Dawn of Civilisation ’ . |
| 15 | Did they have problems with keeping the water out during the time they were storing the |
| 16 | Had n't Naylor Massingham been the only other person around at the time of that incident ? |
| 17 | The Poles had maintained a very efficient educational system under a special national commission up to the time of the partition . |
| 18 | In many cases the actual amount of information given in the recalls was minimal , limited to whether a subject had to wait at the junction and whether there was other traffic around at the time . |
| 19 | The same applies to Eckhard Pfeiffer , who has certainly turned Compaq Computer Corp around for the time being , but has not been in the job long enough to demonstrate proven staying power . |
| 20 | Five went to their usual dealer to buy cannabis or speed and , as there was a drought on at the time , were offered and accepted heroin instead . |
| 21 | Yes , well er I was saying er it was this Mr I think it was , but it was to do with er a big firm in at the time and they wanted er some locks at Liverpool |
| 22 | It was too early in the negotiating round at the time of writing to be confident about trends for the coming year , although most expectations for the 1–10MW bracket are that the new deals will merely take account of inflation . |
| 23 | The trouble is that he ca n't recreate the formula , so he is pretty teed off by the time his fund manager Dr Crane ( Lorraine Bracco ) turns up to find out what 's going on . |
| 24 | His family , along with those of his partner Davey and his son-in-law George Smith , were involved in the management of Bickford , Smith & Company up to the time of its final closure in 1961 . |
| 25 | ( 2 ) … in relation to an institution in respect of which a payment falls to be made under section 58(2) above any reference in this Act to a depositor 's protected deposit is a reference to the liability of the institution to him in respect of — ( a ) the principal amount of each sterling deposit which was made by him with a United Kingdom office of the institution before the making of the administration order and which under the terms on which it was made is or becomes due or payable while the order is in force ; and ( b ) accrued interest on any such deposit up to the time when it is or becomes due and payable as aforesaid ; but so that the total liability of the institution to him in respect of such deposits does not exceed £20,000 . |
| 26 | That 's right yeah , I was also er doing a bit for a guy in at the time . |
| 27 | John 's mother , Audrey , joined the Club in 1938 and remained a stalwart in the Ladies ' Section up to the time of her death in 1984 , and his father Tom served the Club in many ways and was very highly regarded . |
| 28 | There are many long established local families , one member tracing her family back to the time of Jemmy Hirst . |
| 29 | In anyone 's book that is failure of some magnitude , but the fact for English cricket was simply that there were very few players of real Test class around at the time ; after all , when Mike Gatting , one of the best of the county captains , got his chance he won only twice in twenty-two Tests . |