Example sentences of "in [noun sg] at [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For , roughly , the following utterance will be true ( 10 ) There is a man on Mars just in case at the time of speaking there is a man on Mars , whereas ( 11 ) will be true just in case at some time prior to the time of speaking ( 10 ) would have been true : ( 11 ) There was a man on Mars There has been considerable philosophical interest in expressions that have this context-dependent property , like demonstratives , first and second person pronouns , and morphemes indicating tense . |
| 2 | The lavatory was below ground , and in the white brick walls between the two cubicles a hole had been hacked , one of the best glory-holes in existence at that time . |
| 3 | A list of Cornish saints recently studied in an early tenth-century manuscript , where in several cases the saints are listed according to geographical contiguousness of parochial dedications , suggests that the parochial structure of Cornwall , as we know it today , was already in existence at that time . |
| 4 | It does seem that since the last investigation certain development work , " Minerall Adventures , " had been carried out and it is possible that this was in progress at that time . |
| 5 | The 9% unsecured loan stock is redeemable at par on 31 May 1995 or , at the Company 's option , in whole or in part at any time in the preceding five years . |
| 6 | The 12% unsecured loan stock is redeemable at par on 31 May 2000 or , at the Company 's option , in whole or in part at any time in the preceding five years . |
| 7 | Whether we were Members of Parliament in the 1970s or not , many of us will remember the many debates on devolution that took place in Parliament at that time . |
| 8 | The Articles were registered in 1953 under the CA 1948 , and except for a few standard exclusions , largely adopt Table A , in force at that time . |
| 9 | The stricter licencing laws were in force at that time , of course . |
| 10 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 11 | In its early years the new police force had poor relations with headmen , and there is no indication of any general decline in crime at this time . |
| 12 | General pictures of what happens during the middle years are inevitably flawed , but they suggest that a change often takes place in marriage at that time and that for many people satisfactions come from sources outside the couple 's relationship . |
| 13 | The general lack of interest in antibiosis at this time was no doubt discouraging , but it did not prevent his former pupil Dubos from bringing tyrothricin to clinical trial . |
| 14 | However , deaf people were in danger at any time during the blackouts . |
| 15 | It was left to a future Democratic presidential candidate ( Adlai Stevenson ) to argue early in 1947 that Americans had to realize that they were exceptional in their faith in capitalism at that time . |
| 16 | It is thus possible to analyse factors in the situation , but not to make general statements about many aspects of the movement in population at this time . |
| 17 | As her mother 's name was the same as her own , it has been mistakenly assumed that Mrs Coade , the mother , ran the factory until her death in 1796 , but ‘ Mrs ’ was a courtesy title for any unmarried woman in business at that time , and bills show that Miss Coade was in charge from 1771 . |
| 18 | I do not think it had occurred to anybody in court at this time that Waddell 's conviction would be anything but a foregone conclusion . |
| 19 | There were still a number of examples of parallel boilered Scots in service at that time , and someone suggested that it was one of these engines fitted with experimental types of chimney and smoke deflectors . |
| 20 | ‘ It was glorious weather and very pleasant generally if you stayed out of the water but once you 're in the water , you are in trouble at this time of year . ’ |
| 21 | These directives could have been intended for the landscape gardeners , whose services were much in demand at this time and who used roses in their extensive planting schemes to provide unanticipated colour and fragrance for those taking a walk in wilderness greenery . |
| 22 | In prospect at that time was a further enhancement of the ceiling to around 1.6 per cent in the year 1988 . |
| 23 | This had been made by Dad some time previously , it was a beautifully constructed scaled-down version of the wooden barrows in use at that time . |
| 24 | He then complemented these observations by giving the appropriate remedy to patients who displayed similar symptoms and signs , and found that he had discovered a therapeutic tool eminently superior to any in use at that time . |
| 25 | As none of the various systems in use at that time were suitable , Intergraph began evaluating appropriate accounting software . |
| 26 | The tarn would have been about 50ft. in depth at that time with the bottom around the 1,300 ft. contour . |
| 27 | They remain botanically important because some were cited by Linnaeus and other botanists and because they graphically record plants in cultivation at that time . |
| 28 | ‘ Friends ring us up and say : ‘ What ! you 're in bed at this time ! ’ laughs Ted . |
| 29 | It could have been worse ; since the first strike had occurred at 9.30 p.m. after the main factory work-hours , and only a skeleton-crew shift had been in operation at that time . |
| 30 | Also confirm the number of mobile libraries in operation at that time , as these alter from time — to — time . |