Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where once upon a time there had only been fishing boats , now bobbed the magnificent yachts of international millionaires . |
| 2 | Held , allowing the appeal , that on its true construction section 9(4) of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 was a paramount provision which limited all other provisions of that Act and related back to the time of the events in respect of which evidence was sought rather than forward to the time when such evidence would be given ; that since all the evidence sought from the retired Crown servant related to matters which had come to his notice in his capacity as an officer or servant of the Crown , section 9(4) applied and the court had no jurisdiction to make the order for his examination ( post , p. 197F–G , H ) . |
| 3 | Surely , to get her out of that tedious place — if only for a time — must be a better answer . |
| 4 | ‘ Nevertheless , my child , you must answer to something , if only for the time being . ’ |
| 5 | Isolated in a foreign country , and longing for all that had once been familiar , if not at the time congenial , to him , it was easy for Lear to expect of Gould what he could never give . |
| 6 | It will , of course , seldom happen that after the buyer has had some benefit , the contract is avoided by section 7 because usually by the time the goods are delivered to the buyer risk will have passed to him ; section 7 applies only where the goods perish before the risk passes to the buyer . |
| 7 | It should be emphasised again that this last situation will occur only very seldom , because usually by the time the buyer gets possession of the goods risk will have passed to him and , if the goods perish after risk has passed to the buyer , that will not frustrate the contract . |
| 8 | It was the unhappy love that taught me most about love 's nature — though not at the time , not until years later . |
| 9 | The bare infinitive no longer suffices , however , when its actual spatial support is represented as somehow before the time corresponding to the actualization of the infinitive 's event . |
| 10 | I laughed as well at the time , but it stuck with me . |
| 11 | Southbound looks pretty slow heading into those roadworks as well for the time being . |