Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any sections not reported clear by the time of the arrival of the Fire Service units will result in the Fire Service undertaking to search such areas as an immediate priority . |
| 2 | If the current I1 may be considered constant during the time unc then we are entitled to talk about slow variation . |
| 3 | The instruments sometimes steamed up , the revcounter failed altogether and the carpet in both footwells had come adrift by the time the car had reached the end of its test . |
| 4 | This was considered revolutionary at the time it was written ( 1955 ) , but case study after case study elsewhere in the country now suggest the same basic pattern of large estates . |
| 5 | Er and it was felt appropriate at the time that that should be indicated on the T the key diagram to be to be helpful more than nothing else . |
| 6 | This has enabled DCM to eradicate duplicated overheads — 38 staff were made redundant at the time , although DCM has since taken on another 15 . |
| 7 | Further information will be made available nearer the time . |
| 8 | If the draftsman wishes to create a lease for a period that can not be made certain at the time of the demise the only way is to express it as being granted for a fixed term subject to a power to break at the expiry of the period . |
| 9 | Thus whereas the bare infinitive allows for the incidence of its event to a support situated within the confines of event time , the mechanism of incidence provided for by the verb form itself is inoperative when called upon express an incidence to a support situated prior to the time contained in the event . |
| 10 | It seemed he had become confused over the time I 'd said I 'd pick him up , although it was always the same , and Miss Prescott thought he was a little agitated and so brought him round herself . |
| 11 | The problem of drawing a legal line between moral outrage and individual freedom has become intractable at a time when one person 's obscenity is another person 's bedtime reading . |
| 12 | It is probable that the linguistic differentiation which separates the South Slavs from the Western Slavs ( Poles , Czechs , Slovaks ) and the Eastern Slavs ( Russians , Bielorussians , Ukrainians ) had not become apparent at the time of the migration . |
| 13 | A rum evolution , Alix had often thought , though it had not seemed strange at the time : what had then seemed strange , in her girlhood , had been her parents ' quaint socialist ideals , which had caused her such embarrassment , and , partly because of that embarrassment , had inspired in her such undeviating loyalty . |
| 14 | Thus , two new launches had proved possible at a time when new dailies were generally still unpractical . |
| 15 | As Coleman had been at pains to point this out before taking on the DEA assignment , he could hardly disagree , but the risk had seemed acceptable at the time and he had taken particular care to underline his academic credentials whenever he met Hurley 's people . |
| 16 | The search for Fedorov and Louise Müller , which had seemed all-important at the time , had been overtaken by weightier events . |
| 17 | Kate remembered those words , and the undertone of bitterness in her brother 's voice which she 'd found incomprehensible at the time . |
| 18 | For reasons which had seemed wise at the time , the Bar had not accepted that offer at that stage . |
| 19 | The number had seemed significant at the time : Lorton 's normal dose was two . |
| 20 | It had struck Dougal at the time that Lorton 's view of patriotism was more than old-fashioned : it was positively feudal , in that it depended on loyalty to a single person . |
| 21 | It was perhaps no wonder that his ‘ quiet , nice ’ wife had hair that had gone white by the time she was thirty . |
| 22 | At the time the debt is issued , it is uncertain whether the debt will be converted prior to the time at which the redemption option may be exercised , and hence whether the premium on redemption will be paid . |
| 23 | At the time the debt is issued , it is uncertain whether the debt will be converted prior to the time at which the enhanced interest will be payable . |
| 24 | If we were correct in our hypothesis of Jesus 's marriage and children , or even if it were believed true at the time , it would do much to explain the agreed rapport between Constantine and the Roman Church . |
| 25 | What is not clear , even now , is whether another fort was established in the vicinity before the construction of nearby Stanwix on Hadrian 's Wall or whether the Carlisle position was left unguarded for a time . |
| 26 | If you have parts of the allotment which can be left uncultivated for a time , try smothering the weed with black plastic sheeting . |
| 27 | If a relative wants to collect the ashes they can be collected or sent , but they will only be kept free for a time ( usually about a month ) — a charge will be made after that time . |
| 28 | Some of the deaths are blamed on polonium , an element whose presence during the accident was deliberately kept secret at the time because of its military sensitivity . |
| 29 | Their exclusion from the normal commerce of local society was perpetuated long beyond the time when leprosy had been controlled ; indeed , it was not until the nineteenth century that some Cagots finally became authentic citizens . |