Example sentences of "[prep] the time in question " in BNC.
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| 1 | Landlord Bill Long , who has since moved to another pub , gave evidence in support of the defendant , verifying that he had been within his sight for the time in question , except for a brief spell when he was collecting glasses . |
| 2 | I have proposed that , on the reasonable assumption that resources remained more or less constant for the time in question , the price exacted for ( phyletically ) growing larger was to become rarer , thereby increasing the probability of extinction ( Hallam , 1975 ) . |
| 3 | ( Such a longing , incidentally , tends to forget certain unpleasant features of the time in question : for black Americans a reassertion of eighteenth-century values would mean a return to slavery . ) |
| 4 | The second is the language related to the time in question : for example , Old English , Norman French and Medieval Latin . |
| 5 | judge entitled to take into account the subsequent fitting of handrail indicating path was a candidate for special treatment and to conclude d's system in conditions prevailing at the time in question was inadequate . |
| 6 | Making the reasonable assumption that Sue wanted , for professional reasons , to be " identified with " her clients , we have here evidence that she did adjust her linguistic behaviour in such a way as to bring it closer to that of a group with which , at the time in question , she wished to be identified . |
| 7 | … there was , of course , a dispute between the parties at the time in question in the sense that they could not agree on the amount of the yearly rent ; but it was not a dispute in which each had formulated a view which was then placed for decision before the independent surveyor . |
| 8 | Anyone who saw anything suspicious around the hospital at the time in question should contact the police on . |