Example sentences of "the time the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Advantage of powering the receiver all the time the vehicle is moving is that , even though the driver is not listening to the receiver , it is continuously being updated by RDS data , in the same way as if the driver were listening to the CD player .
2 By the time the mare impacts occurred there would probably have been too little dust available to fill the maria .
3 ‘ By the time the squad returned from Norway I had only had two days training all pre-season .
4 At the time the fieldwork was conducted and until the Social Security Housing Benefit Act 1982 , it was compulsory for all those claiming unemployment benefit to register for work at a Jobcentre .
5 By the time the foal had tottered and swayed and nuzzled at Firelight in all the wrong places and eventually found the right spot to have a slurp of milk , Nails was surprised to see that it was beginning to go light .
6 I 'm getting so I ask my wife to account for her movements during the time the butler was killed . ’
7 By the time the phone rang I was well beneath the label .
8 By the time the inside is done , the outside is overcooked , hard and crisp .
9 A scattering of maggots or whatever that hits the surface in , say , an 18 inch circle ( which is the least ‘ spread ’ you can hope for ) will spread far more than that by the time the current has had its way with it and it reaches bottom .
10 By the time the rope went tight I had been standing in the same spot for nearly an hour and a half .
11 the number of virtual memory segments addressed during the time the processor is available to it
12 It must be remembered that in most cases for most of the time the function of the judge with the help of the jury if there is one ) is to ascertain the facts .
13 Under the " continuing review " test , what matters is whether the income can directly or indirectly be used for providing a benefit for the individual at the time the benefit in question is in fact conferred on him .
14 By the time the coach arrived back at Oxford the day had been made remarkable and worthy of being talked about .
15 By the time the coach returned she had herself under control .
16 Since , at the time the rogue sold the car , his title had been avoided , it was held that the purchaser acquired no title under section 23 .
17 The new four-cylinder engine — the one that still powers the Excel and the Esprit — was dreadfully unreliable at first , but went quite well by the time the Elite was launched .
18 Much of the time the narrative is weighed down by the Boehemer 's perceived seriousness of the subject matter — politics , race and violence in South Africa give new meaning to the phrase ‘ well-worn themes ’ — so that the characters are simply vehicles for the points she wants to make .
19 The phase of this variation is arbitrary , depending on the small disturbances at the time the flow commenced .
20 Excluded property which is not to be included in the estate of a person ( which means the aggregate of all the property to which that person is beneficially entitled including settled property in which he has an interest in possession ) immediately before his death embraces for CTT purposes : ( a ) settled property situated outside the United Kingdom unless the settlor was domiciled in the United Kingdom at the time the settlement was made ; and ( b ) securities issued by the Treasury subject to the condition that they shall be exempt from taxation while in the beneficial ownership of persons neither domiciled nor ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom provided in the case of settled property either that such .
21 Where property comprised in a settlement is situate outside the United Kingdom , the property is excluded property unless the settlor was domiciled in the United Kingdom at the time the settlement was made ( IHTA 1984 , s48(3) ) .
22 In order for settled property to be excluded from inheritance tax it is necessary that the settlor was not domiciled in the United Kingdom at the time the settlement was made and , in addition , it is necessary that at the time of the relevant charge , eg on the death of a life tenant or when a ten year charge occurs if the trust is a discretionary trust or where assets are appointed out of a discretionary trust , the particular trust assets are not located in the United Kingdom .
23 By the time the threat to their system became suddenly apparent in the summer of 1989 , it was too late to shift the sort of fabulous amounts rumoured at Christmas 1989 into foreign accounts .
24 Unfortunately there is a confounding factor of experience in this : the earlier sign has been learned the more experience one is likely to have had in using it by the time the sign language testing occurs .
25 At the time the rotor experiments were undertaken , Flettner was already famous and wealthy .
26 NAM Chairman Roger Bryan felt it was very important to remember every effort made at fund-raising , while at the time the work might have seemed far removed from aviation preservation , this work was incremental in the success of the overall project .
27 There is a six-year Statute of Limitations which relates to the period from the date at which the competing claim was first asserted ( not at the time the work of art was stolen nor the date of subsequent sale ) .
28 It is understandable that a civil servant takes longer to negotiate or work out a solution over which he is unenthusiastic , the result being that by the time the work is complete , there is a new minister who is more ready to see the weaknesses of this line of action .
29 We did n't want to sell the house , but we 're both in our sixties and by the time the work is completed we 'll be in our seventies so we just have to bail out now .
30 By the time the work had finished two internal walls had been completely destroyed and Crook took the decision to set fire to the flat in the hope Langbaurgh Council , which owns the block , might rehouse him .
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