Example sentences of "be [noun sg] [prep] the time " in BNC.

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1 To commemorate the visit , the Prime Warden the next year , Mr. John Prideaux ( whose father had been Clerk at the time of the 450th Anniversary ) , called at the School in April with designs of a second cup and cover , which was commissioned by the Company from Miss Jocelyn Burton and was presented to the Chairman and Headmaster in July 1974 .
2 In that same summer , however , occurred the incident involving the Hurufis , to be described shortly , in which Fahreddin Acemi is clearly shown to be acting as Mufti ; and he must therefore have been Mufti at the time of Molla Arab 's putative association with him .
3 The council apparently argued that as Gloucester had not been protector at the time , any attempt on his life could not be construed as treason .
4 The council apparently argued that as Gloucester had not been protector at the time , any attempt on his life could not be construed as treason .
5 Richard I had disafforested the southern half , but they did not know whether Henry II had afforested any district which had not been forest in the time of Henry I.
6 The stranger predicted Pearce would be chairman by the time he was fifty .
7 Once or twice he 's spotted guys who were news at the time .
8 They realise that improved techniques may disprove today 's theory , and so they no longer use the terms , true and false , right or wrong , but only value a theory for it 's usefulness at the time .
9 It is dusk by the time the wild elephants reach the funnel and now the noise of the beaters behind them is so loud that they simply keep going — into the khedda .
10 Enterprise Computer Holdings Plc fears it has been misunderstood : the company is keen to stress that Finance Director Les Kemp has the unhappy confusion over last year 's accounting figures under control ( CI No 2,162 ) but wants to know how accountants KPMG Peat Marwick managed not to sign the audit report for subsidiary Enterprise Computer Services ; apparently there was confusion at the time over the verification of certain bank loans ; all should be clear in the next report and the company says it expects to show a return to profit .
11 Assuming Mecdi to be right , that Molla Arab was Fahreddin Acemi 's at the Darulhadis , one would need to show further , of course , that Fahreddin Acemi was Mufti at the time of the association .
12 One is faced , then , with two conflicting views about the dating of the Muftilik of Abdulkerim : first , the view of the that he was Mufti in the time of Mehmed II , perhaps from 870/1465–6 onwards ; and second , the view of the writers connected with the later tradition , Mustakimzade half-excepted , that he was Mufti in the time of Bayezid II , more precisely , following Molla Gurani , from 893/1488 to Rajab 900/March-April 1495 .
13 One is faced , then , with two conflicting views about the dating of the Muftilik of Abdulkerim : first , the view of the that he was Mufti in the time of Mehmed II , perhaps from 870/1465–6 onwards ; and second , the view of the writers connected with the later tradition , Mustakimzade half-excepted , that he was Mufti in the time of Bayezid II , more precisely , following Molla Gurani , from 893/1488 to Rajab 900/March-April 1495 .
14 ‘ It was daylight at the time and the curtains in your brother 's office were drawn . ’
15 Mr Major , who was Chancellor at the time the embargo was imposed , turned on his critics , telling Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown he had ‘ misunderstood the position ’ .
16 In the Surrey part of Windsor Forest the verdict on 5 March 1300 was that ‘ the whole county of Surrey was forest in the time of Henry II , who died seized of it . ’
17 It was dusk by the time she checked out of the Shelbourne ; night was approaching rapidly .
18 He was king at the time , therefore , of the battle of Nechtanesmere , after which Bede says the Scots recovered their independence .
19 Gordon Lee was manager at the time .
20 It was midday by the time Miss Danziger walked through the entrance of The Tamarisks .
21 Bush , who was Vice-President at the time of the operation , and Gates , who was deputy director of the CIA , had both denied any knowledge of the operation until shortly before it became public in November 1986 .
22 ‘ parky-starn ’ came back form the dead , and all was history by the time they faced England in the final on March 25 .
23 The 1986 BMA report on complementary medicine ( widely criticised for its lack-lustre approach ) only allowed that there was value in the time devoted to patients and called for more scientific evaluation .
24 It was noon by the time they reached Beaulieu , a smug little New Forest village at the head of the Beaulieu estuary , but Harry was too eager for progress to permit the halt for lunch that Mossop had enjoyed with Heather .
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