Example sentences of "the time [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is clearly a mistake for 1.21 a.m. which is itself earlier than the time stated by the inspector . |
| 2 | The time lost by such failures will be determined by the duration of the interruption to the power supply . |
| 3 | FORGET the time recorded by Clydal Pal in the opening heats of the Ulster Derby ( 550 ) and give him some support in the first semi-final at Dunmore Stadium tomorrow night . |
| 4 | The graph plots the slope of the rising phase of the evoked response ( population e.p.s.p. ) , recorded from the cell body region in response to constant test stimuli , for 1h before and 3h following a tetanus ( 250Hz , 200ms ) , delivered at the time indicated by the arrow . |
| 5 | Indeed , some verbs seem to have no lexical content beyond one which is aimed at providing some kind of reservation about applicability of the adjectival property , examples being become and turn which place a temporal restriction on the adjective 's applicability ; the subordinate property only holds after the time indicated by the tense of the verb . |
| 6 | He argued , convincingly , that noun phrases taken as a whole may quite often have a different temporal assignment from that of the verb which they accompany , as in : ( 37 ) I used to be a good friend of the police chief The underlined phrase may be understood as past relative to the time of utterance ( and hence in agreement with the time indicated by the verb ) or as present ; the two different time-values correspond to the two different continuations in : ( 38 ) … before he joined the force … until he was shot for corruption The first continuation would be compatible with an expansion of the subject phrase to the man who is the police chief , while the second would support the man who was the police chief . |
| 7 | This is a date and time serial number and corresponds to the time given by your computer 's system clock at the point you pressed the Enter key . |
| 8 | The Celtic Church celebrated the feast days of the Virgin at the same time as the Egyptian Church , rather than at the time decreed by Rome . |
| 9 | The court may extend or abridge the time appointed by the rules for doing any act or taking any step in the proceedings either before or after the time has elapsed ( s 376 ) . |
| 10 | If the holder of a licence makes default in complying with an order made under this section , he shall be guilty of an offence , and he shall be guilty of a further offence for every day on which the default continues after the expiry of the time fixed by the order . |
| 11 | ( 4 ) On renewing a licence under this Part of this Act a licensing board may by order , to be served on the holder , direct that , within a time fixed by the order , such structural alterations shall be made in the premises comprising the canteen as the board thinks reasonably necessary to secure the proper conduct of the canteen ; and if , when application for renewal of the licence is next made after the time fixed by the order has expired , it is not shown to the satisfaction of the licensing board that the order has been complied with , the licensing board may refuse to renew the licence . |
| 12 | The author , John Lodwick , served as an officer in the Special Boat Service for a considerable portion of the time covered by the book . |
| 13 | For a real account of the BCR we must wait for Martin Davies 's definitive history , but although I have only included some of the anecdotes which crop up again and again , and a few photographs , many BCRS member have given invaluable assistance , and the presence of the Railway taken for granted throughout the time covered by ‘ BISHOP 'S CASTLE WELL-REMEMBERED ’ . |
| 14 | Harbour commissions , like so many other improving economic institutions of the time enabled by act of parliament , undertook a steady upgrading and extension . |
| 15 | to Coronation Street do not know all the facts of course , we are ignorant of the finer points of the time gone by , but why is Deirdre so lasted to Ken I 've yet to catch up with Wednesday night 's proceedings on my video contraption , but the last thing that I heard Deirdre say to Ken as he was recovering on a put-u-up in her front room was , I 'm stuck with you till you back on your feet and as far as I 'm concerned it ca n't come soon enough for me , Ken lay there immobile , stunned , a cruel carry on , what 's the poor chap done , but then I 've missed too much |
| 16 | The method of work has been to get going at the time dictated by the candidate 's first duty of the day and the time taken to get to him . |
| 17 | This does not gainsay the fundamental proposition that it is every citizen 's duty to retain self-control — at least to the extent of not violating other people 's interests — but it does open the way to a manslaughter verdict and to sentences which are rarely longer than eight years ' imprisonment ( less than half as long as the time served by many convicted of murder ) and may be considerably shorter . |
| 18 | I shall ensure that the timing of the first formal review in such cases is fixed in accordance with my overall policy for ensuring that the time served by prisoners serving life sentences for the worst offences of violence fully reflects public concern about violent crime . |
| 19 | The insolvency practitioner appointed to prepare a report must inquire into the debtor 's affairs and submit a report to the court within the time limited by the court , stating whether the debtor is willing to enter into a voluntary arrangement ( see section 9 below ) and whether a meeting of the debtor 's creditors should be convened and if so , where and when . |
| 20 | Except in a case to which Ord 11 , r 4(2) applies , the plaintiff is entitled to have the accepted sum paid out to him without any order of the court , if he accepts it within the time limited by the rule ( Ord 11 , r 4(1) ) . |
| 21 | If the plaintiff fails to give notice of acceptance within the time limited by the rules , he may still give notice at any time before the hearing of the action begins , but an order for payment out of court is then required , and the court may order the plaintiff to pay the defendant 's costs reasonably incurred since the date of payment into court ( Ord 11 , r 5 ) . |
| 22 | The Department of Transport does , however , put a cash value on the time saved by road users by the building of new roads . |
| 23 | Institutional review and participation in policy decisions which are then not acted upon are , however , largely sterile occupations and the time consumed by what , on the evidence of this survey is an ineffective process is wholly unjustifiable . |
| 24 | Make the time to walk by the lovely nearby Avich Falls if you can . |
| 25 | He considered the problem of measuring the time taken by a voice in making a single sound . |
| 26 | The standard measure of this is the half-life ; the time taken by the body to eliminate half the dose taken . |
| 27 | Contrast the time taken by the West to take action in Somalia to the instant reaction to the invasion of Kuwait . |
| 28 | The time taken by each set of words has to be very exactly calculated , and a large part of the skill of a voice-over expert lies in the ability to fit a set of words into a precise length of time while still getting the required clarity and intonation . |
| 29 | The time taken by the sound of each click to bounce back from the rock to the bird , enables the swiftlet to judge just how far away it is from the rock wall ahead . |
| 30 | The optimum bucket size to minimize the time taken by operations carried out on a file depends on the nature of the operation . |