Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect you to be gone by the time I get back . ’ |
| 2 | Time out is a very effective way of controlling aggressive behaviour but it needs to be applied at the time of the problem and the parents must remain calm and firm . |
| 3 | If it rains when you are driving , you tend to be drenched by the time the hood has been erected and are the laughing stock of every MX-5 driver in the neighbourhood . |
| 4 | Existing qualifications will have to be recognised for the time being , probably for some years , and APL , or accreditation of prior learning , is something the National Council for Vocational Qualifications is still exploring . |
| 5 | The only real progress has come in learning how to drive those evaluation routines faster and faster , thus allowing larger numbers of positions to be examined in the time available . |
| 6 | Try to decide what are the essential aspects to be covered in the time available . |
| 7 | In addition , the case was decided under the provisions of the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 , under which reasonableness was to be assessed at the time of breach . |
| 8 | A notice of cancellation sent by post is deemed to be served at the time of posting ( s69(7) ) . |
| 9 | Mum had been so kind and prepared lots of meals for us all so there was n't much in the kitchen to be done at the time . |
| 10 | An extension of time for compliance with the order may be required to be given at the time of endorsing the penal notice . |
| 11 | ‘ You did n't seem to be complaining at the time . ’ |
| 12 | By contrast with diamonds , which were too hard to be ground smooth and could only be mounted as natural crystals until medieval lapidaries had learned how to cut them , coloured transparent stones continued to be shaped by the time honoured methods originally devised for opaque stones . |
| 13 | BBS seriously considered firing Hopper ; the pressure of moving a production team of twenty-three people from state to state , writing the script on the run and persuading innocent citizens of the United States of America who just happened to be passing at the time to appear in the movie , was a heavy burden for all . |
| 14 | Station Officer Russ Broadbent of Southport Fire station , said : ‘ It was very lucky that Mrs Parry happened to be passing at the time . |
| 15 | Much physical pain can be suppressed if it is too overwhelming to be borne at the time , and many emotional and mental traumas and conflicts are suppressed if they threaten the integrity or wholeness of the ego or the victim 's self-image . |
| 16 | The draftsman should next consider whether the conditions are to be fulfilled at the time of the service of the notice or at the end of the term . |
| 17 | If they are to be fulfilled at the time of the service of the notice then , for example , the landlord may not be able to rely on a breach of covenant to decorate " in the last year of the term " since no breach of that covenant can be positively asserted until the expiry of the complete year . |
| 18 | Order 7 , r 10(4) which provides that the date of service is deemed to be the seventh day after posting does not apply , and the summons is in this case deemed , by virtue of s 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 , to be received in the time it would be delivered " in the ordinary course of post " . |
| 19 | They were to be measured at the time of felling and the buyer was given 15 years in which to do the felling . |
| 20 | Previously , the ages given by kimberlite-derived zircons ( mostly megacrysts ) have been assumed to be reset to the time of eruption and cooling . |
| 21 | Even when all intended partners of the new firm have indicated assent it will still be necessary to establish some order of seniority and to select the first senior partner : though joint senior partners are not unknown , the better arrangement may be for some restriction to be put upon the time that office is held by any one individual so that by rotating it between the participating firms a reasonable balance is achieved . |
| 22 | Any such deferred pensions entitlement will be fully protected in accordance with the provisions of the appropriate STG scheme , both as regards the calculation of the pension to be paid at the time of retirement and provision for future increases . |
| 23 | Phillips 's original exercise had many features which were attractive to applied econometricians : the initial empirical work had been rather haphazard , leaving many important hypotheses untested ; the estimation techniques were simple ; it was a reduced form equation , a collapsed version of a larger structural model , leading to the possibility of biases ; in addition to the omission of many potentially significant explanatory variables , much refinement needed to be performed on the time series data . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's going to be tired by the time the plane comes . ’ |
| 25 | A way would have to be found by the time of the Edinburgh Summit ( later the Birmingham Summit was introduced for the same purpose ) of providing a form of words ( possibly involving subsidiarity ) which would help the Danes to save face . |
| 26 | In Shell UK v Lostock Garage Ltd [ 1976 ] 1 WLR 1187 Lord Denning MR explained what he thought was meant by the proposition that reasonableness is to be considered at the time when the contract is made : If the terms impose a restraint which is unreasonable in the sense that it may work unfairly in circumstances which may reasonably be anticipated , the courts will refuse to enforce the restraint : but it will not hold it to be unenforceable simply because it might work unfairly in certain exceptional circumstances outside the reasonable expectation of the parties at the time of making the agreement . |
| 27 | It is not that primary teachers must become preoccupied with examinations or tests to be taken at the time when a child changes school . |
| 28 | Overall 19.1% were judged to be infected at the time of the survey , namely 9.9% community-acquired , i.e. present on admission , and 9.2% hospital-acquired , i.e. infection-free on admission and contracted infection as a direct result of hospitalisation . |
| 29 | This method therefore had to be cancelled as the time the carrier could remain at Greenock was severely limited . |
| 30 | The Government also disclosed that the present method of assessing parental contributions according to parents ' residual income , after tax and mortgage payments , is to be retained for the time being . |