Example sentences of "is [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | One and a half aeons is about the time that elapsed between the origin of the Earth and the first bacteria-like fossils . |
| 2 | So so March the first is about the time ? |
| 3 | ‘ My complaint is about the time taken for the ambulance to arrive . |
| 4 | Divide three hundred and sixty five which is about the time that the earth the sun by |
| 5 | It can be visited from Milan , and is worth the time . |
| 6 | But the owner 's possession , and with it his actual power to exercise his rights , is for the time being gone ; he must recover the watch — as he may even lawfully do by his own act — before he can be said to be again in possession of it . |
| 7 | ‘ in a street ( or public place ) called … ‘ 'Street ’ is defined at section 1(4) Street Offences Act 1959 as any bridge , road , lane , footway , subway , square , court , alley or passage , whether a thoroughfare or not , which is for the time being open to the public , and the doorways and entrances of premises abutting on a street ( as herein before defined ) and any ground adjoining and open to a street , shall form part of the street . |
| 8 | the member of the House of Commons who is for the time being the Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts ; |
| 9 | This is a direct and primary liability , though after an assignment it is normally accompanied by rights of indemnity against the first assignee , and also , where there have been further assignments , against the assignee in whom the lease is for the time being vested . |
| 10 | Somalia is for the time being represented by its interim government . |
| 11 | If his appointor is for the time being absent from the United Kingdom or temporarily unable to act through ill-health or disability his signature to any resolution in writing of the Directors shall be as effective as the signature of his appointor . |
| 12 | If his appointor is for the time being absent from the United Kingdom or temporarily unable to act through ill-health or disability his signature to any resolution in writing of the Directors shall be as effective as the signature of his appointor . |
| 13 | Might the Mr Chairman I was just wondering if it 's worth just mentioning that the , since the Redhill Airport proposal which does include a privately funded motorway link erm point erm has gone to and has been called in to the determination I believe by the Minister , but er we are sort of pending er holding our horses until that er er is nearer the time is that not perhaps |
| 14 | The only multiple testing therefore is within the time periods after population mixing ( a total of two cells ) . |
| 15 | The critical phase is from the time the glider leaves the ground until it reaches a height of about 400 feet . |
| 16 | Yeah the main difficulty is in is in the time period because it 's it 's quite likely that I mean I 'd we 'd been we 'd been hoping that the target candidate could put in a reasonable amount of personal commitment to the campaign . |
| 17 | Thus the wave is zero during the time interval — while it is over the time intervals — and — . |
| 18 | A marriage celebrated between two persons , one of whom is at the time validly married , is in any case void ; and any person knowingly entering into such a marriage is guilty of bigamy . |
| 19 | It is at the time when someone can say , ‘ This time last year … ’ |
| 20 | The most recent and important example comes from the proposed Forest Bill of India which is at the time of writing about to come before Parliament . |
| 21 | Then as we commissioned our team for what is at the time of writing known as the King 's Arms church we experienced a pouring out of the gifts of the Spirit on those elders and leaders who were praying for the team : it seemed everyone had a word of instruction , a revelation , a tongue or an interpretation for the strengthening of the church . |
| 22 | Incidentally , this choice also justifies the ‘ north-western ’ bias of our cases , for north-west England is at the time of writing still one of the strongholds of the small to medium regional brewery . |
| 23 | It is at the time of delivery that the goods must be reasonably fit for the purpose for which the buyer indicated he wanted them . |
| 24 | This is more likely to occur the further away the spot price is at the time of delivery from the price that was agreed at the time the contract was negotiated ( i.e. the forward price ) . |
| 25 | Thus , Marius of Avenches records a land division made with Gallo-Roman senators , under the year 456 , that is at the time of the fall of the emperor Avitus . |
| 26 | The word here denotes the ( pragmatically bounded ) place where the speaker ( A ) is at the time of speaking ; if B does not know ( or can not find out ) where A is , here is uninterpretable in the sense that B can not comply with the request to go there . |
| 27 | Such change is at the time of writing imminent , though it is unlikely that the whole profession will be affected at the outset . |
| 28 | Comments on the Green Paper have been requested by 14 January 1994 and it is at the time of writing too soon to predict what the ultimate shape of the implementing legislation will be . |
| 29 | Because of these uncertainties the appropriate time for selecting the multiplier is at the time of death and the number of pre-trial years for which special damages are awarded should then be deducted from the multiplier ( Graham v Dodds [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 808 ) . |
| 30 | But the funny thing is by the time I got home I still remembered it . |