Example sentences of "being [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each reflects something of the period and quality of the music , the period being of the time when written by the composer or when presented as a ballet and the quality being that inspired in the choreographer by the composer . |
| 2 | No one ever accused Old Blue Eyes or Mr Trump of being behind the times . |
| 3 | As well as being near the time of the Seventh Sea , it is also the year in which Paco 's latest men 's fragrance , Teneré is launched : ‘ Teneré means ‘ to possess the hidden power of the sun ’ . |
| 4 | However , being inside the time does not incur either penalties or bonus points . |
| 5 | Someone who trails in on his own faces the possibility of being over the time limit that eliminates him from the race as a whole . |
| 6 | For my part , I think it would be open to the English courts to apply the civil law maxim directly to the situations we have in these two appeals , and treat the two plaintiffs as lives in being at the times of the events which injured them as they were later born alive , but it is not necessary to do so directly in view of the effect which the Montreal Tramways case [ 1933 ] 4 D.L.R. 337 has already had in the development of the common law in this field in other common law jurisdictions . |
| 7 | About twenty per cent goes on the maintenance of the forces in being at the time . |
| 8 | On 19 July 1991 the foster mother applied for leave to apply for judicial review of the local authority 's decision to remove the four children from her , that being at the time the only procedure which was open to her . |
| 9 | ‘ the defendant owed no duty of care to the infant plaintiff she being at the time of the collision en ventre sa mère , not an existing person and merely part of her mother . |
| 10 | I do n't know how this happened , but er erm a piece of wood or something fell and hit him on the back of the neck and woke him up and he woke up from the vivid dream of being at the time of the French Revolution , of being lead up the guillotine and having his head chopped off . |
| 11 | Although throughout the preceding century case law decisions had narrowed its scope and denied its extension to any trade not in being at the time of its passage , it had remained nevertheless of great importance as a legitimating symbol of skilled labour 's " rights " . |