Example sentences of "time [coord] [pers pn] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been over her story several times and she is quite positive that she saw Monsieur Erdle walking towards the belvedere at about half past nine , although she is unable to state the precise hour . |
| 2 | To achieve this necessarily takes time and it is thus the means and goals which we should examine today rather than the setting first of arbitrary ( financial ) parameters . |
| 3 | These ledgers can be easily subdivided , enabling several clerks to work on them at the same time and it is also easier to withdraw old accounts and insert new ones in their place . |
| 4 | The Government controls Parliament 's time and it is therefore able to limit debate where its proposals are proving controversial or where a rational examination of them is turning out to be embarrassing . |
| 5 | In a nearly cloudless country such as Egypt observation of the sun was a useful way of telling the time and it is therefore not surprising that the earliest known solar clock has been found there . |
| 6 | It happened every single time and it is very upsetting indeed . |