Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Excessive stress can damage the heart and it might not be a coincidence that cardiac disorders are most frequent at the time of waking or the hours just after . |
| 2 | His mother 's death was the first he had been intimately concerned with — his father 's hardly counted , because Peter had been only thirteen at the time . |
| 3 | She had been just fifteen at the time , and had agreed with him heartily . |
| 4 | In order to qualify for alternative permitted hours , the club must fulfil the following conditions ( subss. ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) ) , viz. : ( a ) that the club premises are adapted and used by members and their guests for carrying on athletic sports or games ; ( b ) that at least one of the sports or games is carried on out of doors , and in daylight ( unless artificial light is used ) ; ( c ) that the premises are regularly used during winter and the hours of daylight for a sport specified in ( b ) ; ( a ) that the usual permitted hours are not suitable for the time at which the game or sport is usually played by members and their guests for the supply of liquor to those participating in the game . |
| 5 | Finally , LTP is input-specific , because other inputs that are not active at the time of the tetanus do not share in the potentiation induced in the tetanized pathway . |
| 6 | In whatever format you keep them , the notes you make need to be clear ; if they are not self-explanatory at the time you write them , they are unlikely to be intelligible later , when your memory of working on the particular book or topic has faded . |
| 7 | If the commission , which since its inception has been the CIVC 's ComCon ( Commission Consultative ) , required a yardstick on which to base their annual increase or decrease of production limits , then it would have been more rational at the time to term the figure , whether or not it was actually 50 hectolitres per hectare , an average for the region . |
| 8 | Others have been returned after this date , and some are still outstanding at the time of writing . |
| 9 | They are both 19 at the time , and if there 's anything in the world that 's sweeter than being 19 when you 're 37 , it 's being 19 in a street full of whores and dirty bookshops and Chinese restaurants . |
| 10 | And you would have been about seven at the time . |
| 11 | The problem is , to some extent , that because of the research involved and other factors , such offerings are often out-of-date by the time of publication . |
| 12 | Sir Adrian found this work fascinating and would have been perfectly happy at the time to have made it his long-standing job . |
| 13 | Stevie Ray must have been really young at the time … |
| 14 | Validation of the suffering individual , treating him or her with kindness , professional respect and dignity , being open and honest , separating the awareness of the disease from the understanding of the suffering human being , following the distorted reasoning and disturbed actions and accepting that they appeared to the sufferer to be most appropriate at the time they were committed . |
| 15 | ‘ How can you be so sure of the time ? ’ |
| 16 | I 'm tied up at the hospital for a while each day , but we could be together most of the time . |
| 17 | I 'm not concerned about the time . |
| 18 | The long residence time even means that short-lived radioactive substances , such as those released by the Chernobyl accident , will be largely harmless by the time they emerge from an aquifer . |
| 19 | So , right I 'm just wary of the time |
| 20 | ‘ Can you be more precise about the time , Mrs Brown ? |
| 21 | The speed will then be dangerously low by the time that the nose has been lowered , and even more speed will be lost during the descent through the wind gradient . |
| 22 | The distance between any two points would then he proportional to the number of neurones a message must traverse to get from one to the other ; it would also be roughly proportional to the time taken for a neural message to travel between them . |
| 23 | Gold Australe can reach up to ½″ in size in three weeks and they can be sexually mature by the time they are 12 weeks old . |
| 24 | ‘ In fact , it 'll probably be even huger by the time we 've convicted Mutton on corruption charges , as well as Jake for smugglin' ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll be fully fit by the time of the international . |
| 26 | Not a black day when she would n't see her father at all , but not a yellow day like Sunday , when , unless on call , he might be there most of the time . |
| 27 | And does he have to be , I mean , are we not gon na be there most of the time ? |
| 28 | It is important to realize that the scope of a scheme which apparently focuses on a relatively narrow area may be quite wide by the time all fringe topics ( which are relevant to or have some impact upon the core area ) have been noted . |
| 29 | General evidence of the activities of that society would be quite sufficient for the time being . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , they 've just got plastic bows and arrows , ’ said Tess , ‘ but we reckon that if a burglar 's been squirted with ammonia and slashed with a sword and pelted with ball-bearings and wooden balls his resistance is going to be pretty low by the time he reaches the kids ’ bedroom , do n't you think ? ’ |