Example sentences of "be [vb pp] in [art] time [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Many of the costs are hidden in the time of teachers who are distracted from their primary task by the managerial and administrative requirements of examinations . |
2 | In Fig 36 an example is given of a holding pattern that has been completed in a time of 4 mins 28 secs . |
3 | Your house will be sold in no time at all ! |
4 | In early September Collor had summoned for the first time the Council of the Republic , whose remit was to advise the President on action to be taken in a time of deep crisis or emergency , including the declaration of a state of siege if necessary . |
5 | The argument he used was still being used in the time from which I came , give or take a little rodomontade . |
6 | My father had an atlas which had been published in the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire , but this was on such a small scale that it was virtually useless . |
7 | was done in the time of which set up the Republic of Ireland , get the I R A to declare a truce and talk to them and I think |
8 | On 1 March he published his intention of inviolably observing the Charter of the Forest in all its articles : he appointed four commissioners to supervise the making in each forest county of ‘ a true perambulation , namely that which was made in the time of the lord King Henry our father , which has not yet been challenged ’ . |
9 | It is illustrated in an English manuscript of the 13th century , was used in the time of Gerard , and later by Culpeper , and altogether was so well-known and commonly used medicinally , that it was thought " but lost time and labour to describe it " . |
10 | Luke is wrong , therefore , in saying that the census carried out at the birth of Jesus was taken in the time of Quirinius . |
11 | If such was indeed the case , the assertion of later authors that the Muftilik was created in the time of Murad II , if it has any validity at all , would have to be interpreted as the elevation of an already existing semi-official or official post of no particular consequence , as , in effect , the transformation of the muftilik of Bursa into the Muftilik of the Ottoman lands . |
12 | While the earliest sources give no clue to the date of Molla Fenari 's appointment to the Muftilik but simply state that he was Mufti , later Turkish tradition has asserted that the Muftilik was created in the time of Murad II ; and as it is almost universally held that Molla Fenari was the first Mufti , his appointment , if the tradition is to be believed , must have occurred after 824/1421 , the year of Murad II 's accession . |
13 | Some historians go no further than saying that the Muftilik was created in the time of Murad II ; but others have stated that Molla Fenari was appointed Mufti in the year 828/1424–5 . |