Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Similar proportions were not seeking work at the time of the survey . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Twelve per cent of students were not seeking employment at the time of the survey ; |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Among recent conditions imposed were restrictions on drilling activity at a time when seabirds were moulting or mating . |
| 12 | That MP was the minister of the previous administration having responsibility at the time for the administration of civil aviation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ( 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 . |
| 17 | On the one hand , the Church of England had managed to insult and harass its lesbian and gay members ( it is not known how many left in disgust ) , and had helped to justify to the public the upsurge in homophobic discrimination and violence which was taking place at the time . |
| 18 | So there is a negative segregation against difficult or disturbed sufferers , taking place at the time of the assessment . |
| 19 | Patients taking sulphasalazine at the time of onset of relapse continued on this drug . |
| 20 | Eilish McDermott , QC , appearing for Doherty , submitted ‘ natural justice ’ required that — taking account of the time he spent in jail in the US — Doherty should have been given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State . |
| 21 | It 's not as though we were n't making money at the time either . |
| 22 | ‘ I was supposed to be playing rhythm at the time , but I decided to play a solo on the spur of the moment . |
| 23 | His sojourn with the UDC is suggestive of the role played by that organization in maintaining a basis of grass roots campaigning activity at a time when the official Labour Party had abandoned electioneering for the patriotic excesses of all-party recruiting platforms . |
| 24 | In such circumstances it can not in my opinion be enough for the applicant simply to rely , without more , upon lack of evidence of his presence within the territory of the requesting state at the time of the commission of the relevant offence . |
| 25 | Born in 1818 , son of a stonemason , Burnard was carving stone by the time he was twelve , making his own crude ‘ chisels ’ from nails ground down in sand from Dozmary Pool . |