Example sentences of "that [prep] the time [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is quite in order , ’ he said , ‘ for a person to put assets into family trusts , or indeed give assets away to other parties , provided that at the time a person gives away his assets he is quite solvent . ’ |
| 2 | An inquest jury in Middlesbrough heard that at the time a module had been loaded onto a large barge ready to go out to sea . |
| 3 | The services were cut so drastically that at the time no one in their right mind would have forecast that they would become so bad . |
| 4 | Voluntary settlements ( in particular family settlements made after marriage ) are set aside by a bankruptcy if made within two years before ; and even if made within ten years before , unless it is shown that at the time the bankrupt was able to meet his liabilities without the settled property . |
| 5 | This certainly seems to be true if we consider that at the time the activity ( such as using a book ) takes place , the person concerned is certainly doing it in preference to doing anything else . |
| 6 | It was symptomatic of the British approach to the whole question that at the time the Act took effect no one knew , even to an approximation , how many data users were going to be required to register . |
| 7 | Not surprisingly , it was this rule on which the Revenue rested its argument that the taxpayer should be taxed on the full amount of the benefit , even though it was aware that at the time the 1976 Finance Bill was being debated , the then Financial Secretary to the Treasury , Robert Sheldon , expressly stated that the benefit of a school place given at concessionary rates to the child of a teacher at that school would be ‘ assessed on the cost to the employer , which would be very small indeed in this case ’ . |
| 8 | My memory is n't what it was ; but I do remember that at the time the aircraft was considered the fastest in the Middle East . |
| 9 | Further , there is no evidence that at the time the debtor would have qualified financially for legal aid . |
| 10 | The period within which the charge is vulnerable is two years after its creation and there is no need to show that at the time the charge was created the company was insolvent . |
| 11 | It was held ( a ) that it was a statement of present fact , namely that at the time the letter was sent the traveller had a definite and certain booking , ( b ) that that statement was false because the airline 's overbooking policy meant that the traveller 's booking was exposed to a risk that it might not give a seat on the aircraft , and ( c ) that the airline made the false statement knowingly ( and not merely recklessly ) since the airline was well aware of its own overbooking policy . |
| 12 | Care is needed to ensure that at the time the group dividend is paid : ( a ) no " arrangements " or " option arrangements " exist whereby the parent company could cease to be beneficially entitled to more than 50% of both profits for distribution and assets on a winding up available to " equity holders " of Target ( see Sch 18 Taxes Act ) ; and ( b ) Target is beneficially owned by its parent when the dividend is declared and paid . |
| 13 | And in fact er we said that at the time the white paper was published . |
| 14 | They claim that by the time a pushchair is passed on to a second or third child it 's brakes are often defective . |
| 15 | And the chances are that by the time the market picks up again in 1991 we will be back to the 1983 figure . |
| 16 | Veyrat promises that by the time the first of 20 £40,000 sports cars are built by June 1001 , weight will still be under 2000lb and acceleration electrifying . |
| 17 | An inquest in Lancaster had earlier been told that by the time the information was received , Lancashire Police had spent £250,000 investigating what they thought was the murder of John Threlfall , 18 . |
| 18 | What hostility did not do was deflect him from his purpose , so that by the time the regime fell in 1870 Paris had been altered for ever and bore the mark of Napoleon III . |
| 19 | so that by the time the eastern goods reached the Mediterranean only the most uninspiring of the diamonds were left . |
| 20 | The process is so effective that by the time the molecules reach the top of the outer tube , they are arranged in a series of concentric rings , each representing one type of molecule or cell . |
| 21 | Government policies are so short-term that by the time the recession is over , the country 's industrial base will have been destroyed , and we could end up with a Third World economy . |
| 22 | At the emotional level , this can mean that the personal involvement is engaged ahead of the action , and that by the time the manipulation is actually taking effect , its originator can sit back and observe what she has set in motion . |
| 23 | If we look at Figure 4.6 , which represents a trip to the supermarket , it suggests that by the time the person leaves home they are already a little anxious about the trip perhaps as a result of their previous difficulties with this task . |
| 24 | The reasonable interpretation of their experience seems to demand that by the time the chain had reached them the actual result of the observation had become fixed . |
| 25 | This difference increased with the age of the youngest child in the family , so that by the time the latter had reached 11 years old still only 44 per cent of the mothers of disabled children were in paid work compared with 87 per cent of control group mothers . |
| 26 | And the outcome of that was that by the time the boys reached the hut where they lived with their grandfather , they had clean forgotten what the sun-god told them to do . |
| 27 | The potential for the first management of the ‘ wildwood ’ may have been under-appreciated by researchers in the past , so that by the time the first people with a knowledge of agriculture arrived from Europe in the period before 4000 BC , the landscape may already have been greatly altered . |
| 28 | But in the ensuing duet for Balstrode and Grimes , this motif gets so entangled with Grimes 's personal strife and obstinate nature that by the time the " Storm " interlude itself begins ( with a variant of the fugue subject ) we may genuinely wonder whether the hurricane is not as much an inward as an outward affair . |
| 29 | Parents also argue that by the time the results of the SATS are published their children will already have chosen their GCSE subjects . |
| 30 | An MP says that by the time the technology 's developed , Britain wo n't have a coal industry . |