Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time it [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this time it would be kept in vast concrete-lined tanks filled with water , colloquially known as ‘ cooling ponds ’ . |
| 2 | However , where a discriminatory practice has been in operation for some time it may be easier for the Commission for Racial Equality to produce evidence in support of an allegation . |
| 3 | Now , I leave entirely on one side the question why on earth the present ratio between profits and incomes generally is so supremely right that for all time it ought to be preserved , or at any rate allowed only to diminish , regardless of anything else that happens , such as the growth of savings and accumulation of capital . |
| 4 | It is generally around the age of 2½ years that the child begins to take an active interest in its peers — before that time it may play in their company but seldom plays with them . |
| 5 | In another time it would have been a delight , the twenty-minute trip along the craggy shore , the petrol motor almost purring . |
| 6 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 7 | Over evolutionary time it will cease to be a parasite , will cooperate with the host , and may eventually merge into the host 's tissues and become unrecognizable as a parasite at all . |
| 8 | At that time it would provide a resting place for six to ten clients a week , and the arrival of each one had the macabre side of me guessing what kind of corpse it was . |
| 9 | If you did n't get it out at that time it 'd be half past eleven and she 'd lose two hours . |
| 10 | But if one issue is to be singled out as representing a point of potential conflict between partners at this time it will most likely concern the relationship between home and employment . |
| 11 | At one time it would have embarrassed her . |
| 12 | Yet at one time it used to look quite strange to see a girl teacher but |
| 13 | At one time it must have been a waiting room for clients . |
| 14 | The moral is clear : when gustiness is getting near to the limit for safe flying , assume that at any time it could suddenly increase . |
| 15 | At any time it could turn into a strident chorus , a demand for humanity . |
| 16 | By that time it would have been halfway to low water and too late to dispose of the body in the old sewage outfall that night . |
| 17 | By that time it may be too late to get into the market place with the product . |