Example sentences of "they be [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although in 1981 a question was asked about usual residence , UK censuses are de facto , i.e. individuals are enumerated on the basis of where they are at the time of the census ( This avoids the need to define the distinction between temporary and permanent residence ) . |
| 2 | Holywood could yet clinch the single Section Two promotion spot but they seem intent on staying where they are for the time being . |
| 3 | The issues raised by these comments are as relevant today as they were at the time . |
| 4 | In that year , Haringey 's Labour councillors learned more about heterosexism than they would ever have believed possible , and they have become far more articulate in their defence of lesbian and gay rights than they were at the time of their election . |
| 5 | The sharpest criticisms of this approach have been made — as they were at the time — from extreme left-wing but non-Stalinist positions . |
| 6 | Erm er they formed this committee and erm it was in Switzerland er where they were at the time . |
| 7 | Actually they 've picked up the pace Forest since the goal erm do n't this Leicester are playing anywhere near as well as they were at the time they scored . |
| 8 | The long hot days of summer are with us again — or they were at the time of writing , and long may they continue . |
| 9 | Lyndon Bolton , the managing director , yesterday described prospects as more encouraging than they were at the time of the interim report in August . |