Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that all resistance to shearing has vanished by the time that the atoms are balanced on top of each other , which will occur when the whole material has been distorted in shear through an angle of 30° . |
| 2 | ‘ The injury has come at a time when I would love to be looking forward to making my home debut against Forest . |
| 3 | The joint Royal College of Nursing and Nursing Standard survey has come at a time when Essex Rivers Healthcare is trying to save £2.2 million to cope with an overspend of £1.3 million last year , waiting lists are at a record high and the closure date of a Colchester hospital has been set . |
| 4 | The residue of liberty just gets smaller and smaller , until eventually , in some areas , it is extinguished altogether , with freedom becoming no more than the power to do that which an official has decided for the time being not to prohibit . |
| 5 | Regardless of a critical report it had itself commissioned , the World Bank has decided for the time being to continue financing the Sardar Sarovar dam and canal project on the Narmada river in India . |
| 6 | You watch the bronze figure of the man working the shadoof , which he has done since the time of the Pharaohs . |
| 7 | The revival of takeover speculation — there is little doubt that European and Japanese buyers lurk — has occurred at a time when the merchant bankers , after a long period in the doldrums , are enjoying a rerating on trading considerations . |
| 8 | It has occurred at a time when expenditure on the CAP is again almost out of control and increasing all the time . |
| 9 | An acceptable theory must explain in detail how this clumping of matter has occurred in the time available for it . |
| 10 | The massacre has sabotaged for the time being any resumption of negotiations between Mandela and de Klerk . |
| 11 | COMPLETED FAMILY SIZE — The number of children ( live-born babies ) a woman has borne by the time she has reached the end of the childbearing age . |
| 12 | and what they hope is that most it has sort of been has disappeared by the time it gets to us |
| 13 | The microcomputer has arrived at a time of high unemployment . |
| 14 | This would seem to be especially true when the foal exhibits a characteristic that is clearly opposite to how the dam herself has behaved from the time of her birth . |
| 15 | A more elaborate discussion of such structures has appeared at the time of writing ( Chadwick 1985 a and b ) . |
| 16 | Scotland , too , although the state of their sea defences will depend on the course the opening phase has taken by the time the countries meet on June 20 . |
| 17 | Mr Milburn says this has happened at a time when unemployment in the constituency is going up . |
| 18 | One method of investigating this area has centred on the time which children take to give the answer to a range of simple sums . |
| 19 | However , the question in the way it is posed by educators usually calls for an answer in terms of commitment rather than of attitude in school or in society and the implementation has begun by the time the thought of research arises . |
| 20 | The boom in buying second homes in Europe has ended for the time being — the buyers wo n't be back until the UK economy recovers |
| 21 | But following the changes in Eastern Europe and the virtual ending of the cold war this particular danger has receded for the time being , and as a result a new process of gradual disarmament by the major nuclear powers has begun . |
| 22 | It is important to note that the preferential creditors are given priority where a receiver is appointed with respect to a charge ‘ which , as created , was a floating charge ’ ; thus the fact that the charge has crystallised at the time a receiver is appointed does not result in preferential debts being denied their statutory priority . |
| 23 | There are recognized ways of doing things that ensure that the job gets done at a time when we are probably incapable of thinking things through carefully . |
| 24 | Generally , the rate of performance ( that is , sums done in the time allotted or the time taken to complete the task ) is scored rather than its accuracy . |
| 25 | Well well actual fact , unless it 's done , the security 's fitted at the time of manufacture you can actually serious damage the framing . |