Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he been asleep at the time ? |
| 2 | I have no idea how i it went around a up in the northern hemisphere , over Scandinavia , and Georgia 's in the south , so you 'd have think it 'd have been weak by the time it got down I 'm not a scientist , I have no idea what |
| 3 | Had Anicia Juliana been alive at the time ( she died about 528 ) , she would not have been amused . |
| 4 | Further along the village another house used to be the ‘ cookhouse ’ and game room for them — the meals must have been cold by the time they arrived at the table of Londesborough Lodge ! |
| 5 | Neither was it beyond the bounds of probability that a man of eighty-three had been confused about the time . |
| 6 | These ‘ would seem to have been traditional at the time , for Ormandy did the same in his Philadelphia recording . |
| 7 | CCG 's staff services manager Karen Pleva commented : ‘ Once staff got used to adding credit onto their cards , they have been impressed by the time saved . |
| 8 | Strip examination revealed that this was the result of slight corrosion on the contacts , and the evidence suggested that this may well have been present at the time of the accident . |
| 9 | Charlie had stopped by to speak to Josie as he 'd said he would , but Lucy had n't been present at the time . |
| 10 | He had been sceptical at the time , but she 'd been quite right , for he had suddenly understood the story . |
| 11 | I have long been concerned about the time lapse from the commissioning of a book to its appearance in the shops . |
| 12 | The pope acknowledges Oswiu 's conversion to orthodoxy and the Roman Easter , thanks him for the gifts he has sent but grieves that the bearer of these gifts had died in Rome , and regrets that he has not been able at the time of writing to find someone suitable to send as Wigheard 's replacement . |
| 13 | I must own that the possibility of taking matters further did cross my mind and infiltrated my uncensored dreams , but it would have been unwise at the time and later I was glad we had left things as they were . |
| 14 | Simply used as a marketing term , to designate a fashionable commodity , it might also have appealed to publishers , had it been available at the time , as a packaging for the wave of fiction that followed in the tracks of Eco and Calvino in the early and mid-1980s , and for which no better epithet could be found than ‘ new ’ or ‘ young ’ ( despite a number of its representatives being somewhat less than youthful ) . |
| 15 | , the Alberney units erm , have never been successful since the time they were , they were constructed . |
| 16 | it would n't of been put in if it had n't been accurate at the time |
| 17 | As a long-term contributor to the feature we have always taken pains to ensure that the rates we have quoted have been correct at the time of the survey ( usually December ) . |
| 18 | In R v Love the Court of Appeal quashed the conviction of a director of a printing company who had been absent at the time a print order for obscene books was accepted , and who had no personal knowledge of the contents of those books . |
| 19 | partly the causes were external — loss of friends , hosts of visitors — but partly temperamental : Tolkien could not ‘ discipline himself into adopting regular working methods ’ ( a fault of which he had been aware since the time of ‘ Leaf by Niggle ’ ) . |
| 20 | If the company has been dormant from the time of its formation , the special resolution will be effective if passed before the first general meeting at which accounts are to be laid . |
| 21 | The Rutland jurors swore on 7 December 1299 that all the vills and lands outside the bounds they then set out had been afforested in the time of King John . |
| 22 | It had been enjoyable at the time , but after it was over it had left a disagreeable taste in the mouth . |