Example sentences of "be [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few , a tiny few , recognise how unreasonable this attitude is , but the overwhelming majority are for the time being standing firm . ’ |
| 2 | The following are the principal cases where that leave would be forthcoming : ( 1 ) relief is sought against any person domiciled in England or Wales ; ( 2 ) an injunction is sought ordering the defendant to do an act or refrain from doing anything ( whether or not damages are also claimed in respect of a failure to do something or for the doing of that thing ) ; ( 3 ) the claim is brought against any person duly served within or out of England and Wales and a person out of England and Wales is a necessary or proper party thereto ; ( 4 ) the claim is founded on any breach or alleged breach of any contract wherever made , which : ( a ) according to its terms ought to be performed in England and Wales , or ( b ) is by its terms , or by implication , governed by English law , or ( c ) contains a term to the effect that a court in England or Wales shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any action in respect of the contract ; ( 5 ) the claim is founded on a tort and the damage was sustained or resulted from an act committed , within England and Wales ; ( 6 ) the whole subject-matter of the proceedings is land ( with or without rent or profits ) or the perpetuation of testimony relating to land ; ( 7 ) the claim is brought to construe , rectify , set aside or enforce an act , deed , will , contract , obligation or liability affecting land ; ( 8 ) the claim is made for a debt secured on immovable property or is made to assert , declare or determine proprietary or possessory rights , or rights of security , in or over movable property , or to obtain authority to dispose of movable property ; ( 9 ) the claim is brought to execute the trusts of a written instrument , being trusts that ought to be executed according to English law and of which the person to be served with the originating process is a trustee , or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained when such a claim is brought ; ( 10 ) the claim is made for the administration of the estate of a person who died domiciled in England or Wales or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained when such a claim is made ; ( 11 ) the claim is brought in a probate action within the meaning of Ord 41 ; ( 12 ) the claim is brought to enforce any judgment or arbitral award ; ( 13 ) the claim is brought against a defendant not domiciled in Scotland or Northern Ireland in respect of a claim by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue for or in relation to any of the duties of taxes which have been , or are for the time being , placed under their care and management ; ( 14 ) the claim is brought in respect of contributions under the Social Security Act 1975 ; ( 15 ) the claim is made for a sum to which the Directive of the Council of the European Communities dated 15 March 1976 No 76/308/EEC applies , and service is to be effected in a country which is a member of the European Economic Community . |
| 3 | For the purposes of those provisions ( ss201 and 218 ) the settlement for IHT purposes shall be regarded as not resident in the United Kingdom unless the general administration of the settlement is ordinarily carried on in the United Kingdom , and the trustees or a majority of them ( and , where there is more than one class of trustees , the majority of each class ) are for the time being resident in the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | Holywood could yet clinch the single Section Two promotion spot but they seem intent on staying where they are for the time being . |
| 5 | Would that have been about the time you went back to the car to look for your nine iron ? ’ |
| 6 | But it could have been about the time Ephraim disappeared . ’ |
| 7 | The British attitude to Europe remained as functional and piecemeal as it had been in the time of Ernest Bevin after 1945 . |
| 8 | But on 30 October the regents once more affirmed the rights of the Crown : they ordered Hugh de Neville , the Chief Justice of the Forest , to cause the royal forests to be kept by the same metes and bounds as they had been in the time of King John before the war between him and his barons . |
| 9 | But in addition , when they reached Lyons , the king 's messenger told Anselm that the king would not allow him to return to England unless he promised to observe the customs of the kingdom as they had been in the time of Rufus . |
| 10 | Flap jacks do n't appear to be cooked and yet they 've been in the time they should have , I do n't know what 's happened , there you are there 's your drink do n't knock it over |
| 11 | By the Land Registration Act 1925 ( s70(1) ) : All registered land shall … be deemed to be subject to such of the following overriding interests as may be for the time being subsisting in reference thereto . |
| 12 | Yeah right as I 'm gon na be for the time |
| 13 | Among the revelations will be of the time Cecil Parkinson swore at her in a Cabinet meeting , Kenneth Clarke telling how she used her femininity as a weapon in meetings , and Norman Tebbit and Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten talking about the horrors concealed in that famous handbag . |
| 14 | She tried to imagine what John would be doing ; it would be past the time for office tea but not yet time to go home . |
| 15 | This would mean that the contracting phase would be like the time reverse of the expanding phase . |
| 16 | Ok , normally what we do is to charge erm , erm the lowest charge is fifty pence per mile ok , so that 'll be from the time it leaves here in London till the time it returns . |
| 17 | this wd / be in the time of Federico Secondo , |
| 18 | Considering U(t) to be in the time interval , yields in the same time interval . |
| 19 | Bribes to officials are part of the culture of some areas of the world ( and therefore necessary to obtain business ) , yet US citizens are forbidden by law to offer bribes to officials of foreign governments , no matter where in the world the citizen happens to be at the time . |
| 20 | It may be at the time that they hear the person is going to die ; it may be when they suddenly recognize that the person has become very ill ; it can be at almost any stage when the threat of loss comes into their mind . |
| 21 | The Lords of the West Marches and their Commissioners from both sides of the border , wherever that was thought to be at the time , met there to resolve complaints and grievances . |
| 22 | However , there has been a considerable improvement in that club 's cash flow and its level of indebtedness is better supported than it appeared to be at the time of last year 's review . |
| 23 | The successful conclusion of my latest project — whatever that happens to be at the time . |
| 24 | ‘ Not yet , ’ put in the thin man , ‘ but they will be by the time we 're back there . |
| 25 | The prices , on the whole , are about right , and certainly will be by the time the discounts get their hands on them . |
| 26 | Or what it will be by the time I 've finished this job . |
| 27 | Queen 's student Donnelly excelled at Lurgan and won his first Northern Ireland Cross Country title a few weeks ago , but is still not fully fit , although he could be by the time of the Belfast race . |
| 28 | Well they said they will , they think will be by the time they 've paid up cos they had n't really paid up for , for last years yet ! |
| 29 | There are now approximately 2 million more weavers operating in Persia than there were during the time of the late Shah , and , even if this trend is reversed , existing stocks are large enough to keep the Western markets more than adequately supplied for a decade or so . |
| 30 | Ordinary arrangements for working the line were for the time suspended . |