Example sentences of "[prep] the time of [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only during the time of waiting , wrote Harsnet , during the time without hope , that these things assume significance , only during the time without hope that one is conscious of them , that one remembers them with despair , that one anticipates them with dread . |
| 2 | He said that there were two situations in which the court would not enforce a clause : ( a ) if at the time of making the contract it is seen that it may in the future operate unfairly or unreasonably ; or ( b ) if after the time of making the contract it is found to operate unreasonably or unfairly even if those circumstances were not envisaged beforehand . |
| 3 | ‘ The air ambulance can go anywhere in Cornwall and is on the scene in nine minutes from the time of getting the 999 call , on average , ’ he says . |
| 4 | The carrier is liable for the total of partial loss of the goods and for damage thereto from the time of taking over the goods and the time of delivery . |
| 5 | You are covered from the time of leaving home to the time of arrival home from your holiday . |
| 6 | We have seen that , if students ' freedom to learn is to be a reality , it has to be acknowledged by the academic community in all the academic processes that affect students , from the time of applying for admission through the course arrangements and the curriculum experience to the final assessment . |
| 7 | It allowed John Gorsuch six months to begin to make search and a whole year from the time of commencing the said search to " … have use and employ all the ore metals or minerals he or they shall find during the said year for himself … " but it was providing that efforts , trials , and searches were diligently made , employing " four sufficient and skilled workmen thereat … " |
| 8 | To take care that in ploughing , the furrows are sufficiently ample and not hurried over , when good land is to be ploughed for fallow , the ploughmen to take care that they do not dip into bad soil , and in the time of rebinning not to go too deep , but to plough lightly just to destroy the weeds , lest if wet weather ensue when they come to sow the seed will be deposited in mud instead of solid soil . |
| 9 | Up to the time of voting Ratsiraka had not accepted the new conditions of the Constitution ; his federalist supporters nevertheless agreed to participate in the elections . |
| 10 | For , roughly , the following utterance will be true ( 10 ) There is a man on Mars just in case at the time of speaking there is a man on Mars , whereas ( 11 ) will be true just in case at some time prior to the time of speaking ( 10 ) would have been true : ( 11 ) There was a man on Mars There has been considerable philosophical interest in expressions that have this context-dependent property , like demonstratives , first and second person pronouns , and morphemes indicating tense . |
| 11 | When Harry 's front axle buckled , he was behind a truck A few brief comments on each of these : in ( 35a ) the pronoun I is used gesturally to self-nominate from a group , in ( 35b ) it just has the symbolic usage ; in ( 36b ) the word ago places the time at which the action occurred relative to the time of speaking , in ( 36c ) the time is relative to the time at which the events in the narrative occurred . |
| 12 | B : [ pragmatically interpreted particle ] the milkman came at some time prior to the time of speaking Yet it is clear to native speakers that what would ordinarily be communicated by such an exchange involves considerably more , along the lines of the italicized material in ( 3 ) : ( 3 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time of the present moment , as standardly indicated on a watch , and if so please do so tell me B : No I do n't know the exact time of the present moment , but I can provide some information from which you may be able to deduce the approximate time , namely the milkman has come ( see R. Lakoff , 1973a ; Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 172ff for a discussion of such examples ) . |
| 13 | Where a licensing board has refused an application for a new licence in respect of any premises , the board shall not , within two years of its refusal , entertain a subsequent application for a new licence in respect of the same premises unless the board , at the time of refusing the first-mentioned application , makes a direction to the contrary . |
| 14 | These films are technically well produced and create an atmosphere of reality , useful for the student who has no opportunity actually to visit the library at the time of seeing the film . |
| 15 | After the shelves have been weeded , all other books which are on loan from that section at the time of weeding should be screened on their return and subjected to the same process . |
| 16 | Upon recovery from the overdose , Charles said he had not cared whether he lived or died at the time of taking the tablets , but wanted to show Ann how desperate he was feeling . |
| 17 | PRE-EXISTING HEALTH CONDITIONS AND PREGNANCY — the only exclusions are in respect of any claim where at the time of taking out this Insurance ( i.e. making your booking ) the person whose condition gives rise to the claim ( whether the Insured , the travelling companion or other person not travelling ) is either : — |
| 18 | You are usually given , at the time of taking the examination , a list of printed instructions . |
| 19 | People will be interviewed at the time of taking a photograph and later after they have seen the results in order to ascertain just what they think they have ‘ captured ’ photographically . |
| 20 | In order to determine if this had occurred , the biopsy free leucine enrichments were measured and compared with the plasma free leucine enrichment at the time of taking the biopsy . |
| 21 | At the time of printing it is not possible to confirm Clive Owen and Leslie Phillips will be present . |
| 22 | The only plausible explanation for the omission is that , at the time of copying , Purcell had yet to finalize the detail of these inner parts . |
| 23 | At the time of creating the formula you 're probably fairly clear about how it works , but several weeks or months later , you 've forgotten an awful lot . |
| 24 | For this report we excluded patients who had disease states that placed limitations on the act of defecation such as hypotonia , cerebral palsy , and severe mental retardation and patients who were less than 6 years at the time of follow up , because our intend was to evaluate outcome in school age children . |
| 25 | This report is about 174 children ≤4 years of age with idiopathic chronic constipation who were 6 years and older and had entered school at the time of follow up in May 1991 . |
| 26 | It included questions on the presence and frequency of stool soiling , and treatment being given such as stool softeners , laxatives , suppositories , enemas , or others , and their dose and frequency of use and if day wetting or night wetting was present at the time of follow up . |
| 27 | None of the children who did not recover were receiving medical care for symptoms of constipation at the time of follow up . |
| 28 | At the time of looking up we ascribe an experience of greenness to ourselves ; we consider the experience as something being undergone by us before any decision is taken about its veridicality . |
| 29 | Our classification of references to the care programme approach along a hypothetical assimilation-adaptation continuum suggests that roughly half of local authorities which mention the care programme approach in their plans seemed to have assimilated it , and half were adapting to it at the time of composing the community care plan . |
| 30 | However , there is no doubt that the majority of authorities do favour an examination of reasonableness at the time of contracting . |