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 | Hedgehogs have neither the speed nor the manoeuvrability to catch rabbits but I have known them to kill the young in a stop , gaining entrance during the times when the doe has left the stop unsealed just before the young rabbits are moved out . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Similar proportions were not seeking work at the time of the survey . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | When accused of promoting sales at a time when they were incapable of supplying the electricity , the Board chairmen were robustly defensive . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Twelve per cent of students were not seeking employment at the time of the survey ; |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was sad to read of the death of Michael Seely , racing correspondent of The Times , who lost the fight against a serious illness earlier this week . |
| 17 | An Australian schoolteacher in Hawaii wanting to write a story on the States invading Panama for The Times in London . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Kim Philby had been a war correspondent in Salamanca , sending dispatches to The Times . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Among recent conditions imposed were restrictions on drilling activity at a time when seabirds were moulting or mating . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | That MP was the minister of the previous administration having responsibility at the time for the administration of civil aviation . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The company says catering for first time buyers is boosting sales at a time when other builders are reporting big losses . |
| 28 | A bus has been turned into a mobile information centre , giving details of the times of services and other facilities provided . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |