Example sentences of "in [adj] time [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The abbot 's guests had dispersed decorously , Rémy and Earl Robert in amicable company to the guesthall , where Bénezet was already returned from his evening in the town , in good time to attend his lord , as the earl 's two squires stood ready and waiting for theirs . |
| 2 | With the tightening of world oil demand which will come in the 1990s and the beginnings of a ‘ catching-up ’ programme of crude price increases , it is to be hoped that measures will be taken in good time to counteract what could be a politically unacceptable and potentially debilitating economic dependence on imported energy , for the US and for the rest of the Western world . |
| 3 | Someone sent somebody out to kill two hens ; a local gentleman , knowing the lie of the land , sent his servant to the inn with rum and sugar and an apology for not knowing of their arrival in sufficient time to put them up , and he had to leave for Inverness at the crack of dawn ; Boswell still had some bread despite the amount he had doled out to the Macraes . |
| 4 | Article 20 of the Brussels Convention provides that where a defendant domiciled in one Contracting State is sued in a court of another Contracting State the court shall stay the proceedings so long as it is not shown that the defendant has been able to receive the document instituting the proceedings or an equivalent document in sufficient time to enable him to arrange for his defence , or that all necessary steps have been taken to this end . |
| 5 | A default judgment must , however , not be recognised if the defendant was not duly served with the document which instituted the proceedings or with an equivalent document in sufficient time to enable him to arrange for his defence . |
| 6 | Copies of the application must be sent to the official receiver in sufficient time to enable him to attend the hearing of the application . |