Example sentences of "[Wh det] be [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are also inextricably bound up with evaluations which were at the time extremely unfashionable : not so much the depreciation of Euripides , who , although the most admired of the tragic poets in later antiquity , hardly approached that popularity again until the twentieth century ( and who , in any case , had been subjected to a famous critique in the lectures of A. W. Schlegel as long ago as 1808 ) ; rather , the elevation of " primitive " Aeschylus above even Sophocles , and the disrespect shown towards Socrates and the " divine " Plato . |
| 2 | The most recent and important example comes from the proposed Forest Bill of India which is at the time of writing about to come before Parliament . |
| 3 | Divide three hundred and sixty five which is about the time that the earth the sun by |
| 4 | ‘ in a street ( or public place ) called … ‘ 'Street ’ is defined at section 1(4) Street Offences Act 1959 as any bridge , road , lane , footway , subway , square , court , alley or passage , whether a thoroughfare or not , which is for the time being open to the public , and the doorways and entrances of premises abutting on a street ( as herein before defined ) and any ground adjoining and open to a street , shall form part of the street . |
| 5 | Thus , in September , 1976 , a fire aboard HMS Glasgow , which was at the time under-going repairs in the Swan Hunter shipyard , resulted in the death of eight workers . |
| 6 | What were at the time perceived as the faults of these novels can in retrospect be read as indications of the inadequacy of contemporary narrative models to Brooke-Rose 's needs as a writer . |
| 7 | Then as we commissioned our team for what is at the time of writing known as the King 's Arms church we experienced a pouring out of the gifts of the Spirit on those elders and leaders who were praying for the team : it seemed everyone had a word of instruction , a revelation , a tongue or an interpretation for the strengthening of the church . |
| 8 | In November 1952 Karajan made what was at the time a celebrated recording of Bach 's B minor Mass . |
| 9 | Nichols encountered difficulties in staging a play on what was at the time , circa 1967 , a difficult and sensitive subject although the difficulties were compounded by the frank dialogue . |