Example sentences of "is that [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I can say is that at the time everything fitted together perfectly into so glaringly obvious a pattern that I was amazed I had never seen it before . |
| 2 | The third reason is that at the time of apparent consent or refusal the patient may not , for the time being , be a competent adult . |
| 3 | What emerges from these scantily recorded years is that by the time of the first minuted meeting , in January 1907 , and which was probably held in the manager 's office at the Henley branch of Reading bankers , J. and C. Simonds , much work towards the Club 's formation had already been accomplished . |
| 4 | The problem with lists is that by the time you write item number three , you have completely forgotten about item number one , and so on . |
| 5 | I was a New Man before New Men had capital letters , but I feel like an Old Man these days , and all I can think is that by the time this one is through university I 'll be nearly sixty . |
| 6 | Instead , the real lyrical problem is that by the time you arrive at the two rather superfluous closing tracks , She 's A Weirdo ’ and ‘ Paula ’ , the story of all these nightown expeditions is scurrying round in circles and since the music is n't boosted to insensate lift-off , we 're all back where we started . |
| 7 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 8 | Central to child-rearing from the cultural point of view , as we have seen , is that by the time he is six or seven the child should have been able to recapitulate within his own personal psychological development the development history of his culture . |
| 9 | Gemma 's parents are less optimistic — their immediate target is that by the time she starts school next Easter , there will be something she can eat . |
| 10 | The idea is that by the time of the next Euro elections in 18 months , better knowledge of the EC and particularly of the role of MEPs will improve Tory fortunes at the polls . |
| 11 | On returning she is guaranteed a job at the same level and of similar content to the one she left , but ‘ the plan is that nearer the time I start to discuss my return with management and personnel ’ . |