Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] time [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , so he was a porter , low man in the hierarchy , but this was the kind of time when the barriers went down and he did n't have to wear a label . |
| 2 | With this there was complete air-conditioning , thermostatically controlled , supplying warmth in winter and cool air in hot summer weather , the former by a combination of steam from the locomotive and electricity from the power-plant at times when the train was standing overnight without a locomotive attached . |
| 3 | So why do we need to formalize these arrangements , why rock the boat at time when the political climate is ? |
| 4 | The cost is incurred at the point in time when the plant is built . |
| 5 | The notions of " obligation " and " ambition " both imply that the place in time where the support is affected by the obligation or the ambition is prior to the realization of the infinitive 's action . |
| 6 | This can be diagrammed in the following way for the early interception : and as follows for the final one : The to infinitive , therefore , is not strictly speaking a verb but rather a syntactic construction : it involves two parts , the infinitive , a verbal form which evokes a representation of an event produced by means of the verb system , and to , a preposition which indicates a relationship between the place in time where the support has to be situated to begin actualizing the infinitive 's event ( occupied by the representation of non-ordinalized person incorporated within the infinitive ) and some other prior place in time which the support is also represented as occupying or having occupied previous to the realization of this event . |
| 7 | ‘ It is natural for men to tell tales , and I suppose the short story was created in the night of time when the hunter , to beguile the leisure of his fellows when they had eaten and drunk their fill , narrated by the cavern fire some fantastic incident he had hear of . ’ |
| 8 | To consider that matter at a point of time when the child has been placed under protection for several weeks , first by a place of safety order and then by one or more interim care orders , would , as pointed out by Bush J. in M. v. Westminster City Council [ 1985 ] F.L.R. 325 , 340 , defeat the purpose of Parliament . |
| 9 | And it was only a matter of time when the truth came out . |
| 10 | In both projective and reactive uses , however , the infinitive expresses an actualized contingent event and the impression of contingency implies a reference to a position in time when the infinitive 's event was not a reality ( i.e. before its actualization ) , so that the term " reactive " is no more appropriate here than in the canonical uses of the " infinitive of reaction " as a description of the meaning of the to infinitive . |
| 11 | Er there were a couple of times when the police were called and actually turned up , and and what people believed would have been a minor fight , then developed into a you know a major skirmish . |