Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] [prep] [art] 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 | He predicted that the course record was likely to be broken with a time inside one hour and 50 minutes . |
| 4 | I repeat that there is no need for any school budget in Northumberland to be cut at a time when its overall expenditure can increase by 5.4 per cent . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Typically a multi-speaker recognition system , the only sort that is going to be acceptable to users , will allow between 20 and 30 words to be recognised at a time with a success rate of around 85 to 90% . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Try to decide what are the essential aspects to be covered in the time available . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A notice of cancellation sent by post is deemed to be served at the time of posting ( s69(7) ) . |
| 12 | People aim at achievements to be completed in a time process and talk about how they order their priorities accordingly . |
| 13 | I take note of what my Hon. Friend says : it is a great pity if any parish church has to be locked at a time when members of the public may wish to enter it . |
| 14 | They seem to be locked in a time warp but this has become their biggest selling point because , by remaining stubbornly unlike every other manufacturer , their instruments can not fail to be distinctive . |
| 15 | His father had thought it would be a good idea to ask for the boats to be blessed at a time when Whitby Harbour was crowded with the big Scottish fleet which was following the herring as they moved south . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | An extension of time for compliance with the order may be required to be given at the time of endorsing the penal notice . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 " . |
| 23 | They were to be measured at the time of felling and the buyer was given 15 years in which to do the felling . |
| 24 | Previously , the ages given by kimberlite-derived zircons ( mostly megacrysts ) have been assumed to be reset to the time of eruption and cooling . |
| 25 | Indeed , as Amiss saw with fascination , his first act on sitting down to breakfast was to open the tabloid at page three , fold it and prop it against the sugar bowl in such a way that the topless pin-up of the day was there to be looked at every time he got bored with the Telegraph . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Education is often the first to be squeezed at a time of cuts . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's going to be tired by the time the plane comes . ’ |