Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas Aristotle did not enquire into the mental process by which we perceive time , because he believed that our minds must necessarily conform to the time of the physical universe , St Augustine took the mind 's activity as the basis of temporal measurement . |
| 2 | The analyses of both Cockburn and Dearlove imply a relationship between business and local government which did not exist at the time and could not easily be generated , whatever the ambitions of civil servants in the departments of central government , or of individual chief executives . |
| 3 | A contract for the sale of unascertained goods may or may not be void because of the fact that certain goods have perished or do not exist at the time of the contract . |
| 4 | In this case , if it turns out that the goods do not exist at the time of the contract , the seller will be liable in damages to the buyer for breach of his contractual undertaking . |
| 5 | But I did not think at the time to ask what they were , or their significance . |
| 6 | ‘ If they do not fall by the time the Commons returns on January 11 , I will put forward legislation to free up this market . |
| 7 | The court , in deciding that W was not guilty , said that a supplier of goods does not commit an offence under section 1 if he does not know at the time of supply or offer to supply that the trade description was applied to the goods . |
| 8 | I did not know at the time who had commissioned the poll , but I learned afterwards that it was the Conservative party . |
| 9 | Of course , in the High Court , a case of particular significance may be reported , but the law report will almost certainly not appear before the time allowed for appealing has passed . |
| 10 | I could not understand at the time why they thought we were Germans , but I later discovered that they knew we were people from a border and the only border they could think of was the one with Austria , which for them was the same as Germany . |
| 11 | For one thing we do n't know what they 'd charge , and for another they might not understand about the Time Fire . |
| 12 | A statute passed to remedy what is perceived by Parliament to be a defect in the existing law may in actual operation turn out to have injurious consequences that Parliament did not anticipate at the time the statute was passed ; if it had , it would have made some provision in the Act in order to prevent them . |
| 13 | Thus an order of the court that a former council house or New Town Development House be transferred to one party of the marriage will not necessitate at the time of the transfer repayment of the discount or any part of it allowable at the time of purchase . |
| 14 | We did not appreciate at the time what a wrench leaving the Weir House must have been for him , nor the difficulty he had in adjusting himself to four assertive stepsons he hardly knew . |
| 15 | I did not have the time for this myself , but clearly , a solution is to lie in wait for this photograph on one of those days when the time of performance does not coincide with the time of sunset ! |
| 16 | I did not have the time for this myself , but clearly , a solution is to lie in wait for this photograph on one of those days when the time of performance does not coincide with the time of sunset ! |
| 17 | What they perhaps did not realise at the time was that France was not prepared to compromise . |
| 18 | What I did not realise at the time , but discovered later , was that Mrs Singh had no idea that transfer next September had been suggested — she expected that it would happen straight away . |
| 19 | I did not realise at the time that this species ( or form ) is strongly dimorphic in size , with the female attaining a mere 4″ or so S.L. when fully grown . |
| 20 | Once the power supply is restored , the time required to correct data damaged will not add to the time required for recovery from systems errors described above . |
| 21 | A program which depends on several hours of training does not allow for the time and number constraints of the classroom . |
| 22 | The court went on to record that the issues thus created had been narrowed by the acceptance on the part of the applicant 's counsel that the right of silence could not be invoked against the Director prior to the charge of the suspected person , and by counsel for the Director that if , as he submitted , the power to require information did not cease at the time of charge then it did not cease at all ( save in cases where the charge was not pursued ) until the investigation came to an end on the conviction or acquittal of the person charged . |
| 23 | They are to help pay for something you need but can not afford at the time you need it . |
| 24 | The Session would not agree to the time ; and that seems to have been the end of it . |
| 25 | The but is the superego is a part of the ego so we have to er before we go on to the superego , let's just say for the time being that repression is directed by the ego itself . |
| 26 | and did n't always tell at the time |
| 27 | I could hardly breathe by the time I got there ; my chest felt as if it was bursting and my throat was clenched tight and my legs were quivering again . |
| 28 | According to Richards , therefore , critics need two things that they did not habitually possess at the time he was writing , and usually do not possess now : a theory of communication and a theory of valuation . |
| 29 | So I had to go to the , like the job centre and they offered me this , which I did n't really fancy at the time . |
| 30 | Well that 's excellent of your compliments , although I do n't really know at the time , so |