Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 31 | David agrees and says America would have exploded if the ‘ truth ’ had been revealed at the time . |
| 32 | If the following questions have not been answered by the time you start your new job , make sure you have the answers as quickly as possible . |
| 33 | Secondary sources are written after the time of the event and are usually based on primary sources . |
| 34 | Yet for the National Government to fight the election as a government , rather than on party lines , was a clear breach of the undertakings which had been made at the time of its formation . |
| 35 | At Christchurch , proposals to replace the Gothic station of 1877 had been made at the time of the First World War and again in the 1930s , but it was not demolished until the 1950s , when it was replaced by a modern station more successful than most . |
| 36 | But in this warm and pleasant climate she was dressed in a long black dress which looked as though it had been made at the time of Heathcliff . |
| 37 | By making an alliance with Megara , Athens was clearly seeking to secure herself from a lightning invasion from the west — the threat which had been made at the time of Thasos . |
| 38 | The evidence indicated that all parts of the flying control system had been connected at the time of the accident , and no evidence of a control restriction or jam were found , although such a possibility could not be totally dismissed , given the degree of disruption in some areas . |
| 39 | It is dated December 1959 , and may therefore have been written at the time that Take a girl like you was being completed . |
| 40 | Her father 's attitude had been accepted at the time and accepted ever since . |
| 41 | The draft constituted the party 's second political platform , the first having been adopted at the time of the foundation of the Indo-Chinese Communist Party ( the CPV 's forerunner ) in 1930 . |
| 42 | Under the US 1986 Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act , five conditions had to be met for the lifting of sanctions , of which only two had been met by the time of de Klerk 's visit ( entering into negotiations with black representatives and lifting the ban on democratic parties ) . |
| 43 | The Duchess had been shot at the time she herself was captured . |
| 44 | These correlations , however , apparently increase when emotionality ratings are made at the time of recall and may increase with the age of the memory ( Linton , 1986 ) . |
| 45 | We had been told at the time he had been in trouble before . |
| 46 | By providing money for so-called buy-back operations , in which countries either bought their own commercial debts back from the banks at deeply discounted levels or , alternatively , simply used the money as collateral when negotiating low-interest bond deals , a number of countries had been able to reschedule their own external obligations on easier repayment terms than had been agreed at the time when they were made . |
| 47 | Many are thought to have been buried at the time of the Great Plague . |
| 48 | The research will describe the nature of a selection of the strategy and policy initiatives ; set out the empirical evidence used in building the strategy ; assess this against other evidence which might have been used at the time and against current practices ; use this and other evidence to evaluate the effects of policy ; and comment on the main successes and failures of the strategy . |
| 49 | Mr Jones , the landlord of The Two Pheasants , was organising a chain of water carriers from the tap in his bar , and Albert Piggott , stomach pains forgotten , had trundled out an archaic fire-fighting contraption which had been kept in the vestry since the Second World War and had never been used since the time when a small incendiary bomb had set light to the tassels of the bell ropes , and an adjacent pile of copies of Stainer 's ‘ Crucifixion ’ , in 1942 . |
| 50 | The story of Jacob 's marriage to Leah and Rachel had also been used since the time of Augustine to symbolise these two ways of Christian living ; the fundamental activities necessary to the well-being of society being represented by Leah , contemplative knowledge of the love that is the ground for these activities by Rachel . |
| 51 | The highest price tag was £75,000 for an Elizabeth Frink horse , rumoured already to have been sold at the time of going to press . |
| 52 | The last of the mines had been closed around the time of Tace 's birth and the entrances to the shafts had been closed or blocked by rockfalls . |
| 53 | Some of the princes of Germany doubted the validity of the election on the grounds that Frederick had not been baptized at the time and he had only been elected , they said , out of fear for his father . |
| 54 | There is no appropriation at the moment when he takes possession of the goods because he was entitled to do so under the terms of the contract of sale , a contract which is , it is true , voidable , but has not been avoided at the time the goods are handed over . |
| 55 | There is no appropriation at the moment when he takes possession of the goods because he was entitled to do so under the terms of the contract of sale , a contract which is , it is true , voidable , but has not been avoided at the time the goods are handed over . |
| 56 | ‘ Where the seller of goods has a voidable title to them , but his title has not been avoided at the time of the sale , the buyer acquires a good title to the goods , provided he buys them in good faith and without notice of the seller 's defect of title . ’ |
| 57 | They will trawl back in their minds for comments and clues that , if they had been understood at the time , might have enabled them to be more helpful . |
| 58 | Asked by Mr Norman if his reasoning for that decision had not been noted at the time , he replied : ‘ My scribbles were not entirely consistent in quantity or meaning . |
| 59 | Some pits have been reprieved for the time being , but the closure programme may simply be delayed , the price of buying off political defeat being a £500 million subsidy over the next two years . |
| 60 | The Constitutional Court on March 3 ruled unconstitutional a bill passed in November 1991 [ see p. 38585 ] , which would have allowed prosecutions for serious crimes committed between Dec. 21 , 1944 , and May 2 , 1990 ( notably in the postwar purges and the repression of the 1956 uprising ) , which had not been prosecuted at the time for political reasons as being in conflict with the Constitution . |