Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | These hospitals were funded by Iran to treat battle casualties — Hezbollah , Amal militiamen and Syrian troops , depending on who happened to be fighting whom at the time — and they were ideal places for holding hostages . |
| 2 | Soon after joining the WSPU in 1906 she had embarked on a campaign of disruptive action which by the time she went to Epsom for the Derby had brought her numerous prison sentences for offences such as obstruction , throwing bricks , setting fire to pillar-boxes and smashing windows in the House of Commons . |
| 3 | Any loss which at the time of making the contract the defendant could have predicted as likely ( or not unlikely ) to result from the breach of it . |
| 4 | A classic study on short term verbal recall seemed to show that reading highly emotional words impairs memory , a finding which at the time seemed to support notions of repression . |
| 5 | Introduced by the government for the first time in the Local Government Bill , the county consists of only two districts and is dominated by Cardiff which at the time contained ‘ just about the only pocket of Conservative Party strength in south Wales ’ ( Wond 1976 : 127 ) . |
| 6 | The Bill would have altered the definition of rape which at the time was classified in the Italian Penal Code as a ‘ crime against morals and custom ’ , so that it became a crime of violence against the person . |
| 7 | For later he also believed that the motor accident and its consequences could have destroyed his morale but for the tranquil worship of the little Oxfordshire village which for the time was his base . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , it was , ’ Athelstan replied , though he remembered he had not asked that question himself at the time . |
| 9 | In addition to a claim for capital loss or loss of profits , a claim can be made for any consequential loss which falls within the rules in Hadley v. Baxendale , i.e. loss of a type which at the time of the contract could reasonably have been predicted by both parties as liable ( i.e. not unlikely ) to occur in the event of the breach . |
| 10 | He made very few mistakes and so often picked out the right line on the greens , lines which at the time I doubted , that I left the decisions to him . ’ |
| 11 | in addition , I have a Blue Ring Angel which at the time of purchase had a few white-spot-like fluffy things on the edges of his fins . |
| 12 | In Varley v. Whipp ( 1900 Q.B. ) the contract was for the sale of a specified second-hand reaping machine which at the time of the contract the seller did not own but had still to acquire . |
| 13 | In Underwood v. Burgh Castle Brick & cement Syndicate ( 1922 C.A ) the contract was to sell a-30 ton condensing machine which at the time of the contract was standing bolted to a concrete emplacement in which it had become embedded because of its weight . |
| 14 | There is little evidence about Ermentrude herself at the time of the marriage . |
| 15 | I 'll second it for the time being . |
| 16 | There were two female attendants on board who at the time were busy preparing beverages in the centrally situated galley . |
| 17 | It was this last point which at the time led to some discomfort about OD . |
| 18 | I remembered now another give-away sound which at the time I had n't noticed — a click on the line at the beginning of my conversation with the woman . |
| 19 | They recorded one demo tape at Cargo Studios in Rochdale which at the time was being patronised by a legion of new wave bands spanning Joy Division to Orchestral Manoeuvres in The Dark . |
| 20 | A great many Greek politicians and officials who at the time said privately that they thought the thing was a nonsense heard themselves publicly using arguments which did not improve Greece 's reputation for honest debate . |
| 21 | In both cases it is open to others also to define the water as having something wrong with it : as one officer put it , having described an oil pollution which at the time was beyond his control : ‘ I prayed for rain and darkness ’ . |
| 22 | The insurance is only intended to cover vendors who at the time of contract had no knowledge of circumstances which eventually give rise to a claim or of the likelihood of claims being made under the warranties . |
| 23 | Thus contracts are not generally binding on the following people : persons who at the time of making the contract were either minors , or so insane or drunk as not to know what they were doing . |
| 24 | And er maybe about five six years ago , a parcel of blankets came from Iceland for the Longhope lifeboat , from this same woman , and there had been no contact whatsoever between the time she was rescued and then , which was amazing . |
| 25 | Kursell v. Timber Operators ( 1927 C.A ) concerned the sale of timber which at the time the contract was made was still growing in a Latvian forest . |
| 26 | Let me give a few examples of vanished empires which at the time seemed invincible . |
| 27 | The Court ruled on April 24 that the government was entitled to dismiss up to 600,000 former East German civil servants who at the time of unification had been given temporary contracts rather than being made redundant . |
| 28 | A teenager myself at the time , I found the occasion awkward and somewhat embarrassing , as I suspect some of the pupils did . |
| 29 | Will he please ensure that there is no slippage whatever in the time scale for the resignalling from Bethnal Green to Chelmsford which would obviously substantially enhance the service ? |
| 30 | Certainly we had to please people lots of the time -we had to kiss Aunty and show our school report to Uncle to please people . |