Example sentences of "was [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | where a police constable ( or a traffic warden ) was for the time being engaged in the regulation of traffic |
| 2 | ‘ where a police constable ( or a traffic warden ) was for the time being engaged in the regulation of traffic ’ This offence can not be committed where the constable or traffic warden are not engaged in the regulation of traffic . |
| 3 | ‘ where a police constable ( or a traffic warden ) was for the time being engaged in the regulation of traffic ’ This point is proved by stating so in the constable 's or warden 's statement of evidence , e.g. ‘ I was engaged in the regulation of traffic to allow pedestrians to cross safely ’ . |
| 4 | He had lost his job because the club where he played the piano had to close and , though he was after another one on the switchboard in a hospice , he was for the time being at a loose end . |
| 5 | They constitute an acknowledgment by the delegates , committee and officers that the Association was for the time being inadequately organised and funded for undertaking major tasks on the national scene . |
| 6 | All right , I knew the cockroach treatment was for the time when I made my centipede on a string crawl up Shirnette 's back . |
| 7 | Immediately after the elections a subcommittee was set up by the Legislative Assembly to study the proposals , but progress was for the time being halted , after objections from the Chinese government , as reported in the Far Eastern Economic Review of Sept. 21 , 1989 . |
| 8 | In July 1857 even Kiselev believed that because emancipation with land was for the time being impossible , freeing the serfs ought to be postponed for the foreseeable future . |
| 9 | It is so time-consuming that you need to look at the end result with a very critical eye and decide whether it was worth the time it took to produce . |
| 10 | It was during the time of Viking domination that Rognvald Kolsson began to build his magnificent , red sandstone cathedral in Kirkwall , named after martyred St Magnus , killed on the island of Eglisay in 1116 AD . |
| 11 | It was during the time the play was being crafted , and for years afterwards , that Ken was a witness to the bizarre happenings that made up this strangest of all relationships , a relationship which ended with Halliwell murdering Orton and then taking his own life . |
| 12 | Though her radicalism had not begun to develop , her individualistic streak was already fully formed , as Miss Suter recalls : ‘ It was about the time we were beginning to have trouble with student sit-ins , and Katharine stuck out against it . |
| 13 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ This was about the time The Beatles were just starting and they were considered to have long hair , but if you look at the pictures of them in those days , they had almost crew-cuts compared to David 's which was honestly long , bright yellow , bleached blonde from a bottle . |
| 14 | In fact , it was about the time that David and I both auditioned for Hair and we were both turned down which I thought was quite funny because it seemed that just about everyone else in London got the part , but we were very much the kind of solo singers and perhaps the wrong type . |
| 15 | information about a particular piece , so , Simon and I sort of , we were talking kind of fairly casually about that , but erm , what we agreed to do is , this was about the time when we first got the equipment I think and it , it occurred to me that you , and I 've checked this now , that you can actually plug a cassette , you know , a Walkman type of player into either the microphone for the |
| 16 | It was about the time you dropped the raw egg into your great-aunt 's letter box . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ When I saw him , but he must 've come on the bus it 'd stop at the turn an' 't was about the time . |
| 18 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 19 | It was about the time of the William & Mary declaration that a group , predominately Quaker , and motivated by one Dr. Edward Wright " Physician at the Sign of the Ship neare the Monument in London " , became interested in mining and smelting . |
| 20 | The council insisted on erecting another — this was about the time I arrived — and it got delivered in handy , fit-together sections . |
| 21 | His first question was about the time she was having , his first statement that the cat — and he — were doing fine . |
| 22 | He was the first big money(950,000) signning by Allan Clark , personally I think Clark just signed him because everybody else was spending absurd amounts money on crap , this was about the time malcolm allison was spending 1 to 2 million quid every other week on unknown bits of shit , so clarke thought lets join in . |
| 23 | It was like the time when she had been hunted . |
| 24 | It was like the time she had thrown a cheque for one hundred and twenty pounds into the fire one Christmas , thinking the envelope was empty , though luckily it had been a present from her godfather , and he had good-naturedly written her another . |
| 25 | In January 1219 the sheriff of Huntingdon was ordered to see that the Forest was kept as it was in the time of King John : the perambulating jury was summoned before the Council , amerced and imprisoned . |
| 26 | Across the road from the churchyard is Poosie Nansie 's pub , the setting for Burns 's poem ‘ The Jolly Beggars ’ , and is as welcoming today as it was in the time of Scotia 's bard . |
| 27 | The problem of fertility is as unsolved as it was in the time of Aristotle , and the principal bugbear is lack of cooperation . |
| 28 | That was in the time when Dr Marks was principal and a young master named George Scott was on the staff , two of the best remembered Britishers who ever lived in Burma . |
| 29 | Er well I was in the time office in the first place , the men used to er cl check in , they used to bring the checks you see ? brass checks , numbered . |
| 30 | Her main interest was in the time course of memory formation , and she had been using a variety of drugs , including agents which disrupt entry of ions such as potassium into the cell , and also protein synthesis inhibitors , to dissect out a series of phases , which she described as short- , intermediate- and long-term memory . |