Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before exceptional items , Kingfisher also topped the profits forecast made at the time of its French acquisition , Darty , turning in £234.4 million before tax for the year to the end of January , an increase of 5.7 per cent . |
| 2 | As one delegate to the discussion put it ‘ The women still do n't understand what the real world is like when it comes to their commercial value but at least they 've realised for the time being that they have bitten off more than they can chew . ’ |
| 3 | I think we ca n't do justice to the point you 've raised in the time at our disposal , but it is a very important issue . |
| 4 | Not , at least , of the sort who 've emerged in the time since ‘ Raw Like Sushi ’ : singers like Lisa Stansfield , Betty Boo , Cathy Dennis , Kylie and Dannii — all of whom are peddling an ersatz glamour drawn from adolescent fantasies of sophistication , untouchable otherness , phoney celebrity . |
| 5 | ‘ Tomorrow we will face the Orcish scum and will triumph , as men have done since the time of Sigmar ! ’ |
| 6 | What we do know is that , particularly in the lower reaches of the rivers , they have suffered in the time that man has been around in Sussex , in say the last ten thousand years , very , very dramatic changes . |
| 7 | The major auction houses have moved with the times and have found new ways of selling works which in both form and content would have proved an unstable investment a decade ago . |
| 8 | ‘ Where there is a contract for the sale of specific goods , and the goods without the knowledge of the seller have perished at the time when the contract is made , the contract is void . ’ |
| 9 | Already a variety of vendors are attempting to create user interfaces which go beyond GUIs , but not have appeared at the time of writing in 1990 . |
| 10 | To the left , and two doors along to the right , are two structures which have survived from the time of this picture to the present — apart , that is from Inigo Jones 's Banqueting House just visible on the same side of the street in a haze of sunlight . |
| 11 | Younger children will always be the same , he observed , but the older children have changed with the times . |