Example sentences of "be [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 | Freud may have been writing at a time of increasing urbanisation resulting from rapid industrialisation , but it is not at all clear that his work has any specifically ‘ urban ’ connotations . |
| 3 | She knew all that and , more , she had actually been passing at the time . |
| 4 | Little wonder , really , that right now the two of them are looking for the time of their life with someone of their own age . |
| 5 | ‘ We are living on a time bomb here . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | When you feel like ‘ beating yourself up ’ , observe how you are acting at the time . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | ‘ We 're living on a time bomb ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We hope it 's sunk in and they 'll know what they 're doing by the time they get to Bosnia . |
| 15 | She could n't remember where she 'd been going at the time . |
| 16 | Charles had been directing at the time and cast him as Young Marlowe in She Stoops to Conquer . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The light from the big bang , though , has come much farther — it has been travelling since the time , less than 1m years after the moment of creation , when the universe became thin enough for radiation emitted by one atom to be unlikely to hit another . |
| 20 | And say we are coming in no time at all . ’ |
| 21 | The speaker appears to be generalising to a time which includes her own experience . |
| 22 | And after just a few sessions of treatment his parents were overjoyed to be told their son could be walking by the time they leave the Capital in April . |
| 23 | BBS seriously considered firing Hopper ; the pressure of moving a production team of twenty-three people from state to state , writing the script on the run and persuading innocent citizens of the United States of America who just happened to be passing at the time to appear in the movie , was a heavy burden for all . |
| 24 | Station Officer Russ Broadbent of Southport Fire station , said : ‘ It was very lucky that Mrs Parry happened to be passing at the time . |
| 25 | Although ideally basic competence in moving about independently should be developing by the time the pupil first comes to school , there is likely to be among visually handicapped children a range of levels of skill in independent mobility and in competence in using the environment fully and safely . |
| 26 | ‘ The point is , ’ said Dyson , thumping the car down into second to slow up at the traffic lights , ‘ a journalist ought to be specializing by the time he 's forty . |
| 27 | ‘ You did n't seem to be complaining at the time . ’ |
| 28 | Another ceasefire brokered by the European Communities ( EC ) appeared to be holding for a time , as the Hague peace conference continued its efforts to find long-term solutions to the conflict , but the truce collapsed in early October . |
| 29 | In Japan , we must be getting to a time when equities are worth buying , so , on a five-year basis , I would choose the Schroder Japan Smaller Companies which has a good reputation , or possibly the Schroder Tokyo fund . |
| 30 | Everything had an improvised , random air about it , as if people had erected new machines just where they happened to be standing at the time , next to the debris of the old . |