Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be dry by the time we leave for the dance . ’ |
| 2 | She 'll be asleep by the time we get |
| 3 | The survey indicates that sales volumes are up , but they still remain below what retailers would consider to be normal for the time of year . ’ |
| 4 | Well I should leave that because that would be right for the time . |
| 5 | For some reason or other , the money would be scarce at the time . |
| 6 | It can take at least two to three months if not longer to buy a house and any deal initiated during a housing trip may not be complete by the time the expatriate and family arrives in Britain . |
| 7 | This implies that there is a good chance the processing of the first record will be complete by the time that the second record is located , so that skip-sequential processing win provide benefits . |
| 8 | As to the possibility of the crew shooting some extra footage whilst at the museum , I am afraid this would have to be dependent on the time taken for the shots we plan for use in our Project Video . |
| 9 | So I mean , we could , we could recruit people in to do it , but the problem there is they 've got to be free at the times when this course runs . |
| 10 | However , there are difficulties with latent defects , for example , characteristics not known to be harmful at the time of delivery , or immunities to harmful substances being subsequently discovered . |
| 11 | Teenage mothers are more likely than older mothers to have an unstable family background , to have poor or no educational qualifications , and to be unemployed at the time of conception ( Wells , 1983 ) . |
| 12 | So the fringe players such as Preston , Ellis , Bachop , Cooksley and Dowd might have a very quiet tour of Australia , and thus not be march-hardened by the time they move into the five-match tour of South Africa . |
| 13 | … If in such a case the circumstances be such at the time when the act or neglect occurs that it should reasonably be foreseen that the person in fact injured thereby might be so injured , then at the time of the injury a relationship giving rise to a duty exists . |
| 14 | Under natural conditions cattle would be anoestrous at the time , so the best we can hope for is subfertility . |
| 15 | You 'll be fine by the time Jim and Ellis turn up and you 'll have a nice evening poring over clues . |
| 16 | But he was 72 and would be 73 by the time he had to move if he moved . |
| 17 | As it happened Acheson was in Paris when the cable arrived ; the Embassy replied with the unanimous opinion that it would be a serious mistake to deliver the memorandum ; and Acheson , having seen the correspondence , agreed that it would be inappropriate at the time . |
| 18 | But you 'll be ill at the time , is n't it , to be able to claim . |
| 19 | Of the 30,000 Iraqi troops estimated still to be combat-effective at the time of the allied suspension of military action , most were Republican Guard formations . |
| 20 | Notice that eqn ( 10.3d ) has the effect of requiring the wave to be orthogonal to the time axis as well as to the direction of propagation in space . |
| 21 | The Australian High Court delivered a key ruling on June 3 on the issue of Aboriginal land rights , by effectively overturning the notion of terra nullius — the concept that had deemed the Australian continent to be unoccupied at the time of European settlement in the 18th century . |
| 22 | Unless subsequently agreed in writing , the charges relating to booking shall be those expected to be current at the time of the conference . |
| 23 | First , the benefit attributable to the patent must be shown to be current at the time of the employee 's application ; the prospect of future benefits such as royalty payments from foreign sub-licensees is only relevant to the quantum of compensation awarded should outstanding benefit be proved . |
| 24 | Quite simply , the parties to a deed should sign it in the presence of a witness , who must be present at the time it is signed , and who must then put his own name , address and occupation . |
| 25 | We can at least be sure of the time when the town died , because apart from the abrupt halt in telegraph traffic , the big clock on the Military Hospital was found intact in the smouldering ruins , with its hands stopped at 07.52 . |
| 26 | Since we may wish to use our laws to transform an inefficient program to an observationally equivalent efficient one , our notion of equivalence will be independent of the times at which events occur . |
| 27 | I ca n't leave this and we 'll all be starving by the time we reach temperature . ’ |
| 28 | Whatever the method used to discover a new site , the most important element is to record its position and any other details that might be apparent at the time of discovery . |
| 29 | This child might be fifteen by the time the marriage took place . |
| 30 | The time course of the change must be compatible with the time course of memory formation . |