Example sentences of "and [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatest areas of concern for tax-payers were about the Revenue 's staff 's apparent lack of authority to deal with certain problems , difficulty in getting through to the right person on the telephone , and about the time it took to resolve problems and answer queries . |
| 2 | Not going to school , and having to pretend I did n't live on the island all the time , has meant that I did n't grow up with anybody of my own age ( except Eric , of course , but even he was away for a long time ) , and about the time I was thinking of venturing further afield and getting to know more people Eric went crazy , and things got a bit uncomfortable in the town for a while . |
| 3 | But he could be ready for anything ; for the churches which had abandoned him ; for the churches like the Philippian one which had continued to care ; for hunger ; for plenty ; for the times when he had no obvious human support , and for the times when his fellow believers came and gave him encouragement . |
| 4 | So that 's why IBM Corp was ready to get rid of MAPICS , one of its very few ostensibly successful software applications : Marcam Corp signalled in a conference call on Thursday night that analysts for now should not expect the product line from IBM to add to Marcam 's earnings in fiscal 1994 ; it indicated that both this year and for the time being next year their guidance is no positive impact on earnings from the MAPICS acquisition , ’ Hambrecht & Quist analyst Robert Herwick says . |
| 5 | This , however , lay still in the future , and for the time being the seventeen industrialised towns and villages ( out of thirty-two ) in Babergh hundred contained almost three-quarters of its population and 87 per cent of its wealth . |
| 6 | And that , for most people and for the time being , said everything . |
| 7 | It was no wonder that the Vietnamese , he said , were willing to turn to anyone who offered them a helping hand ; and for the time being , for him and perhaps for most Vietnamese , it was China , and the kuomintang , not surprisingly , which exerted the greatest influence on the development of Vietnamese nationalism : and especially a Kuomintang which still included communists as well as nationalists . |
| 8 | Any change would be gradual and for the time local parties were left with a free choice . |
| 9 | Johnson 's first task was to ensure a smooth transition of power , and for the time being he kept together the Kennedy team . |
| 10 | ( 1 ) Premises shall be disqualified for receiving a licence if they are situated on land acquired or appropriated by a special road authority , and for the time being used , for the provision of facilities to be used in connection with the use of a special road provided for the use of traffic of class 1 ( with or without other classes ) . |
| 11 | We can all still bring leather in from our friends in Australia but for reasons that I do n't wholly understand , this is very much dearer than the local er supplies available and for the time being it 's not of interest to the saddlery-makers in Walsall . |
| 12 | There are products and there is cash-flow , and for the time being survival can continue . |
| 13 | But planners are paid to be pessimistic , and for the time being they felt it prudent to assume that American assistance in a crisis — imperative though it would be — was likely to be forthcoming only after an unpredictable interval . |
| 14 | Now if you can just say on that , that that excludes any resources for the economic development action plan and for the time being resources for that initiative are being held centrally into Personnel and Finance sub-committee 's budget and as the action plans develop then money will be released from a contingency there to er go to the Planning Department or to whichever department that has actually been implementing that particular part of the action . |
| 15 | British rowing officials are not known for making sweeping changes and for the time being they say Henley will stay as it is … |
| 16 | Since the QT Meeting on the 7th has indicated that she is feeling a little better and for the time being is willing to continue as the Teachers ' Representative , however , it is possible that in the future she may require assistance to carry out her duties . |
| 17 | But Coleridge 's ideas were constantly changing ; by 1797 he had finished with Godwinism , and during the time that he was constantly with Wordsworth at Alfoxden , his conversation ( or ‘ monoversation ’ ) was full of references to Hartley , Berkeley and Spinoza . |
| 18 | Then I injured my knee , and during the time I had off to get my knee better , I discovered that there was life outside the ballet . |
| 19 | And during the time where Attavan was getting a very bad press , I went back to the doctor and said , would it be advisable for me to change ? |
| 20 | Patrick Forbes gets right to the heart of the matter when , in his scholarly work Champagne ( 1967 ) , he refers to a treatise , Traité de la culture des vignes de Champagne , written by a certain Frère Pierre , a member of the community at the abbey of Hautvillers during and after the time of his mentor Dom Pérignon . |
| 21 | Similarly , in 3 the time span which is indicated by " now " is limited to the few seconds immediately following the utterance , whereas in 4 the reference of " now " extends well before and after the time of utterance . |
| 22 | The 1976 act spoke of a person who died from ‘ personal injuries sustained by him ’ and Lord McCluskey said : ‘ In my view it is clear that the whole phrase is perfectly apt to include injuries inflicted to the person of a child immediately before his birth and continuing to have their effects on him by impairing his physical condition at and after the time of his birth . |
| 23 | Insensitive handling of this process can result from a misassessment of an elder 's competence to make these shifts , and of the time and energy this takes . |
| 24 | An ‘ impeccably controlled and executed piece ’ from the winner of the Digital Award in 1988 & 1989 , and of the Time Out /Dance Umbrella Award in 1991 . |
| 25 | ‘ It is a story of the Myrcans , and of the time when they first came to Minginish to take service with the people of the Vale and the Dales . ’ |
| 26 | A corporate publication produced on behalf of a distinguished client wo n't want to appear flash , but nor will it want to risk seeming stuffy and behind the times . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't believe in the fatal decline of the written word , ’ says Mr Fontaine , ‘ but we are competing all the time — not so much against television , because the screen image and the printed word complement each other , as against magazines , and against the time people spend getting to work and then their leisure time — against music and the cinema . ’ |
| 28 | Because the endoscopical findings in RP often include serpiginous ulcerations , fissures , and ileitis proximal to the pouch , the syndrome has often been attributed to underlying Crohn 's disease , the diagnosis of which had presumably been ‘ missed ’ both clinically and pathologically up to and including the time of colectomy . |
| 29 | We are suggesting , however , that the postoperative development of RP is not prima facie evidence for a ‘ missed ’ diagnosis of Crohn 's disease before and including the time of colectomy . |
| 30 | Our quotations from the 1790s and from the Times in 1880 ( see chapter 3 ) indicate that the feeling is at least two hundred years old . |