Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 But few critics are laughing at a time when ex-Klansman David Duke is able seriously to contend the governorship of Louisiana .
2 Little wonder , really , that right now the two of them are looking for the time of their life with someone of their own age .
3 ‘ We are living on a time bomb here . ’
4 We are living at a time when everyone is forced to adopt a political position : one day it will become clear that 6 February 1934 marked a dividing point in literature as well as in politics .
5 Under the Administration of justice Act 1982 , where a will contains a devise or bequest to a child or remoter descendant of the testator , and the intended beneficiary dies before the testator , leaving issue who are living at the time of the testator 's death , then , unless a contrary intention appears in the will , the devise or bequest passes to the issue living at the testator 's death .
6 Er , today and every day , almost , a question of the police , at the moment , there is this business going on , er , in in London , at Stoke Newington , over the fact that , the charges against the police for corruption , being involved with all sorts of things that they should n't , er , and we are living through a time , where the police is having to fight a battle for it 's own respect .
7 Instead we are living in a time when we can watch a TV ad which tells us that cars which are way beyond the range of most people 's pockets are being ‘ handbuilt ( somewhere else ) by robots ’ .
8 When you feel like ‘ beating yourself up ’ , observe how you are acting at the time .
9 And th the stories that you read are all , all for children are they ones that you 're reading from a book , or are they ones that you 're inventing at the time , or what ?
10 ‘ We 're living on a time bomb ’
11 Oh in fact you 're not even you could never have to go back to that same place but depends on where what you 're doing at the time that assignment comes up for reselling .
12 We hope it 's sunk in and they 'll know what they 're doing by the time they get to Bosnia .
13 WHY Do we drink coffee ? one answer is to keep us interested in what we are doing at the time — typing , say , or repairing a car .
14 Next you have to decide when to enter the date and time information — do you want to use the spreadsheet like a time clock where you record what you are doing at the time you do it or will you use it to maintain a post-hoc record and enter dates and times in batches .
15 And say we are coming in no time at all . ’
16 I 'm thinking of a time scale of about ten years ahead .
17 In many cases it is extremely difficult to carry out tests under truly controlled conditions , because the external conditions are changing throughout the time period in question .
18 DNA changes by biological evolution only on a time scale of millions of years , but our powers of destruction are increasing on a time scale for the evolution of information , which is now only twenty or thirty years .
19 Could it be that , like me , more and more readers are dreaming of the time when they can either afford to move home or , at the very least , redecorate their existing one ?
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