Example sentences of "they [be] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The USSR , as before , remained ready to further its own interests wherever it could , and those interests were not always in agreement with those of Western governments — nor had they been in tsarist times . |
| 2 | They are into philosophical time , producing work once a year or less . |
| 3 | Only if they are at that time identified and agreed upon , will they be specific goods . |
| 4 | They were at all times called by their Yiddish names Bashelaya , Shinageetel , and Riffka . |
| 5 | The sale agreed and completed was thus for the land and buildings as they were at that time . |
| 6 | Sir Daniel bade his brother Roger , then living at Coniston Hall , make a report on the mines as they were at that time . |
| 7 | Least they were at that time . |
| 8 | the ministers of the forest … have taken again into the forest lands and woods as entirely as they were at any time , contrary to the Charter … and cause ditches to be thrown down , and interfere with their cultivation , and take from them grievous and excessive ransoms . |
| 9 | It seems probable that elderly people as a whole have more secure incomes and are less marginalized as consumers today than they were at earlier times in this century . |
| 10 | They were at this time boycotting the Security Council in protest at the UN refusal to replace Taiwan by Communist China ; hence there was no Soviet veto on sending UN forces to support South Korea . |
| 11 | Though all were to achieve success , Oliver as a poet , Bruce as picture journalist and Jeffrey as sports journalist and author of The Spectator 's column , ‘ Low Life ’ , they were at this time a little like characters out of a Chekhov play , searching and bewildered . |
| 12 | They were by this time descending the stairs , and Mrs Alderley looked about . |
| 13 | In the Forest of Dean alone the four verderers are still elected as they were in medieval times — by the freeholders of the county called together in County Court by the sheriff . |
| 14 | The design of interiors … are as valid today as they were in earlier times — the vaults , snugs , parlours , each with their own character , can still provide a pleasant , varied atmosphere ’ . |
| 15 | It is the case that typical households in the later part of the twentieth century are much less likely than they were in earlier times to contain anyone other than the conjugal family . |
| 16 | Because of their involvement with the W family , some of them were by this time quite familiar with the Scottish Office ‘ Effective Intervention ’ document . |