Example sentences of "the [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 | So why do we need to formalize these arrangements , why rock the boat at time when the political climate is ? |
| 3 | The cost is incurred at the point in time when the plant is built . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |