Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | With hindsight , it is clear that at the time we did not fully grasp the real significance of the workers ' position . |
| 2 | It is clear that by the time Ronald Reagan entered office concerns generated by the spectre of the imperial presidency and intensified by the pattern of misgovernment symbolized by Watergate had had a seriously detrimental effect on public perceptions of the presidency . |
| 3 | I 'd made it clear that by the time I reached sixteen I wanted out — I could n't get out any sooner because no school in London would have me . |
| 4 | This The Waste Land did , but when Eliot writes elsewhere that any modern poet who applied himself to the drama would be an extremely conscious poet , using the historical imagination , it is clear that around the time of The Waste Land he was also considering writing plays . |
| 5 | Within 20 years the instrument will be brown and by the time it is 200 years old it will be virtually black . ’ |
| 6 | But the scent was old and after a time they went on again . |
| 7 | He said the explosion appeared to be unplanned because of the time it occurred . |
| 8 | It would appear from Donoghue v. Stevenson and Australian Knitting Mills Ltd. v. Grant [ 1936 ] A.C. 85 that it would be immaterial whether at the time of fault the victim was in existence or not , so long as the victim was a member of a class which might reasonably and probably be affected by the act of carelessness . |
| 9 | ( It 's also odd that at no time during the film is Brando seen to strike Harris anyway ! ) |
| 10 | In the future , Suffolk people will reflect on this decade and they will find it strange that at a time when environmental issues were more prevalent than ever both county and borough councils made such an effort to be seen to be environmentally friendly , that so much development took place on the green belt of Ipswich . |
| 11 | Government policies are so short-term that by the time the recession is over , the country 's industrial base will have been destroyed , and we could end up with a Third World economy . |
| 12 | IT IS IRONIC that at a time when the shares of motor traders are dropping like stones , the price at which dealerships change hands has remained steady . |
| 13 | ‘ I also had four days to be nervous and by the time the big day arrived I was all nervoused out . |
| 14 | It 's just started to get dark but by the time it 's just started to get |
| 15 | He sank into the waiting limo unshaven , crumpled , white-faced , nervous , shattered and by the time he got to the posh Beverly Hills Hotel , in need of the complimentary bottle of Scotch a thoughtful management had left in his room . |
| 16 | It is likely that there was also a sense that higher education on a wider basis could be provided more cheaply outside the universities , though it is likely that at the time any such view would have been based on guesswork rather than hard information . |
| 17 | It is likely that by the time of its release in X11R6 — if that eventually happens — Fresco components could be incorporated into XT toolkits — it should be possible to have a gliff in an XT widget , for example . |
| 18 | Even if one of the two exceptions applies , dismissal will still be unfair if at the time of the dismissal there was a suitable alternative vacancy which was not offered in accordance with the detailed requirements of the employment protection legislation . |
| 19 | The line is now extinct but at the time we arrived they had lived in the castle for some five hundred years . |
| 20 | It was very short-lived but at the time it was a bit of a shock . |
| 21 | The process is so effective that by the time the molecules reach the top of the outer tube , they are arranged in a series of concentric rings , each representing one type of molecule or cell . |
| 22 | I 'm glad to say that the beans were edible , the dog did get fed and I 'm sure that by the time you read this the video will be finished , in fact I 'll probably be working on the next one . |
| 23 | ‘ It was absolutely freezing and by the time we got the fish to the deeper water the carp sacks were frozen , ’ added Ian who also broke two landing nets during the rescue . |
| 24 | Opened in 1846 this section had been early superseded and closed and in the time of Mr Mester 's childhood comprised only an overgrown formation . |
| 25 | Any change would be gradual and for the time local parties were left with a free choice . |
| 26 | In our squadron was a man I call an elderly because at the time he was about forty to forty five years old and we were all a bunch of kids . |
| 27 | Early in 1976 Austrian Niki Lauda said that it was totally unsuitable because of the time it would take firefighters to reach some parts of the vast circuit . |
| 28 | Excess is insidious because at the time it seems a bonus but later on it can be an expense that diverts resources from development areas . |
| 29 | Well , your average fees per term , ten years on , at current inflation rates … will stand at … five thousand a term , give or take , you see … and that 's just when he 's ten … course it 'll be double that by the time he 's seventeen … |
| 30 | Whilst it is accepted that the total provision for the County , erm five hundred and sixteen hectares about twenty five he per cent above the approved plan provision , the County Council considers this is justified on the basis that it provides the most generous level which can be justified on the information which is available and at a time when changes in the distribution of business use are to say at the least unpredictable . |