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 | Under natural conditions cattle would be anoestrous at the time , so the best we can hope for is subfertility . |
| 14 | You 'll be fine by the time Jim and Ellis turn up and you 'll have a nice evening poring over clues . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But you 'll be ill at the time , is n't it , to be able to claim . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Unless subsequently agreed in writing , the charges relating to booking shall be those expected to be current at the time of the conference . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I ca n't leave this and we 'll all be starving by the time we reach temperature . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The time course of the change must be compatible with the time course of memory formation . |
| 28 | It is therefore quite unreasonable to allow this ; the animals should be stunned at the time the throat is cut . |
| 29 | Are you , the haulier , agreeing , for example , to supply a particular vehicle for haulage or to supply any lorry which happens to be available at the time the contract needs to be undertaken ? |
| 30 | Over the past two centuries the ships employed have ranged from totally unsuitable ones , which happened to be available at the time , to , less commonly , purpose-built vessels incorporating the most sophisticated technology of the day . ’ |