Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came to me as a gift , a little black-faced lamb sent to me by the Batesons who were farming Briscoe at the time . |
| 2 | Just as the introduction of spinning and weaving machines at the time of the Industrial Revolution in Britain destroyed craft jobs and created fragmented tasks which were performed by unskilled workers , will the new technology also be used to de-skill work ? |
| 3 | With MAS assistance the vendor will normally have set his expectation , upper and lower limits and opening position by the time of the issue of the Information memorandum . |
| 4 | IMC employees — risk analysts and financial assessors like clones in their sharp plastic business suits and laced necklines — moved busily from one station to another , checking systems as the time for launch approached . |
| 5 | Therefore , by dismissing Peres at the time he did , Shamir made certain that he would retain the premiership whatever the outcome of the Knesset vote . |
| 6 | Similar proportions were not seeking work at the time of the survey . |
| 7 | And er frankly , you would nah want to go to a male , a male only Burns supper , they , they they 're a most un seemly looking crew by the time they 've finished their dinner ! |
| 8 | Defining half-life as the time during which one-half of all the currently active literature in a subject field was published , Burton and Kebler discovered a bimodal distribution of half-lives , or two patterns of literatures of different half-lives , leading to their classification of literatures as either classical or ephemeral , depending on the half-life patterns observed . |
| 9 | Certain institutions carried the same message : lineage welfare payments , for instance , and the solemnities of threatening vengeance and exacting a settlement , were adat ( customary ) , the way we have always done things , living reminders of a time when ‘ we did everything in this way ’ . |
| 10 | It failed to find a publisher either in Macmillan or elsewhere , but Hardy was given a great deal of largely conflicting and unsettling advice at a time when he was ‘ feeling his way to a method ’ . |
| 11 | When accused of promoting sales at a time when they were incapable of supplying the electricity , the Board chairmen were robustly defensive . |
| 12 | The purpose of the writer 's research ( Tweddell , 1988 ) was to examine practices in arts INSET for serving teachers at a time when the government 's intention to develop a coherent programme of INSET through GRIST was being initiated ( at Easter ) 1987 and to find out how the arts were faring in an educational climate which many observers were declaring inimical to the arts . |
| 13 | Twelve per cent of students were not seeking employment at the time of the survey ; |
| 14 | of the 16 students not seeking employment at the time of the survey , 14 planned to carry on writing up their theses , and two had arranged extended visits overseas . |
| 15 | As minister , he issued instructions to vignerons on the advantages of adding sugar at the time of pressing and it was the vignerons of the more northerly winemaking regions , like Champagne , who benefited the most . |
| 16 | The RFU should also take the overdue step of encouraging the development of the game in state schools by paying teachers for the time they spend coaching . |
| 17 | He 's a fine man , your dad , they 're well matched , " It 's great it happened , " the woman in the shop said , buying leeks at the time . |
| 18 | Accordingly , without intercepting their telephone communications we obtained a fair amount of information about their attitudes on quite a wide range of topics that were concerning C.N.D. at the time . |
| 19 | Among recent conditions imposed were restrictions on drilling activity at a time when seabirds were moulting or mating . |
| 20 | I can remember Leslie coming home , I think I must have been expecting Doreen at the time , that was in , that was early early on , nineteen , well that was nineteen sixty three , and he was , he had heard that had I had been in the Gatehouse Drama Club , and er he said , Would I be interested in com in coming to the Drama in if they started ? |
| 21 | That MP was the minister of the previous administration having responsibility at the time for the administration of civil aviation . |
| 22 | The lads were having lunch at the time and when ‘ Jacki ’ leaned over to shake hands with Peter Grant , his tie fell into a bowl of soup . |
| 23 | The company says catering for first time buyers is boosting sales at a time when other builders are reporting big losses . |
| 24 | This was , again as in the past , a genuine form of public entertainment ; printed programmes giving details of the time and place of the entry and of the carriages and costumes were sometimes sold to potential spectators . |
| 25 | Building this genetic algorithm for code-breaking has certainly left me in no doubt that evolution is quite capable of performing miracles in no time at all . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I began playing guitar professionally when I was about 15 or 16 years old , and was recording albums by the time I was 17 . |
| 27 | While most students not in receipt of a job offer were making applications and attending interviews at the time they completed the Initial destinations questionnaires , the fact that one third of students would be looking for employment at the end of the courses can only be regarded as a disappointing , and rather unexpected , finding . |
| 28 | Moreover , in Schroeder Lord Reid said that a consequence of examining validity at the time when the contract was signed made it unnecessary to deal with the reasons why the respondent ( originally the plaintiff ) now wished to be freed from it . |
| 29 | Having regard to the time taken up in travelling , to and from the place of parade , the time taken to perform twelve hours ' duty is spread over seventeen hours . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) The conditions referred to in subsection ( 1 ) above are : ( a ) that the premises of the club are structurally adapted and bona ride used , or intended to be used , wholly or mainly for the purpose of providing facilities in connection with the carrying on by members of the club and their guests of athletic sports or athletic games ; ( b ) that one or more of such sports or games is or are usually carried on out of doors and , when so carried on , can ( unless artificial lighting is used ) only be carried on during hours of daylight ; ( c ) that the said premises are regularly used , or are intended regularly to be used , during the winter period , for providing facilities in connection with the carrying on by members of the club and their guests , during the hours of daylight , of such a sport or game as is mentioned in paragraph ( ii ) above ; ( d ) that having regard to the time at which the said sport or game is usually carried on by members of the club and their guests , the permitted hours set out in section 53(3) of this Act are not suitable for the supply of alcoholic liquor in the said premises to persons who participate in that sport or game . |