Example sentences of "the time in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second is the language related to the time in question : for example , Old English , Norman French and Medieval Latin . |
| 2 | Landlord Bill Long , who has since moved to another pub , gave evidence in support of the defendant , verifying that he had been within his sight for the time in question , except for a brief spell when he was collecting glasses . |
| 3 | ( Such a longing , incidentally , tends to forget certain unpleasant features of the time in question : for black Americans a reassertion of eighteenth-century values would mean a return to slavery . ) |
| 4 | I have proposed that , on the reasonable assumption that resources remained more or less constant for the time in question , the price exacted for ( phyletically ) growing larger was to become rarer , thereby increasing the probability of extinction ( Hallam , 1975 ) . |
| 5 | judge entitled to take into account the subsequent fitting of handrail indicating path was a candidate for special treatment and to conclude d's system in conditions prevailing at the time in question was inadequate . |
| 6 | Making the reasonable assumption that Sue wanted , for professional reasons , to be " identified with " her clients , we have here evidence that she did adjust her linguistic behaviour in such a way as to bring it closer to that of a group with which , at the time in question , she wished to be identified . |
| 7 | … there was , of course , a dispute between the parties at the time in question in the sense that they could not agree on the amount of the yearly rent ; but it was not a dispute in which each had formulated a view which was then placed for decision before the independent surveyor . |
| 8 | Anyone who saw anything suspicious around the hospital at the time in question should contact the police on . |
| 9 | ‘ You thought I meant we should pass the time in bed , did n't you ? |
| 10 | We 'll spend most of the time in bed . ’ |
| 11 | As the aircraft were left out ‘ dispersed ’ most of the time in English or in tropical rain these compartments soon became little damp boxes , often with a puddle at the bottom . |
| 12 | ‘ It used to live on us , on the surface of our skin , and eventually followed our skin — which falls off all the time in minute flakes — so it now feeds away from us , on those fallen skin scales . |
| 13 | Peoples like the Maya and Aztecs were organized on a hierarchical basis and supported civilizations altogether more developed than those prevailing at the time in North America . |
| 14 | Well you use it all the time in electronics . |
| 15 | In fact ( the myth persists ) , even if the slim person does not especially like these foods , he or she sticks with them for a large part of the time in order to maintain a trim figure . |
| 16 | ‘ I decided I was fed up with having to go out on the road all the time in order to pay a mortgage on a house I never spent any time in ! ’ he told me . |
| 17 | And it 's changed they out-winter the beasts there now , it used to be that the beasts was in all the time in Winter . |
| 18 | It does not matter that A was at the time in possession in his capacity , not as seller , but as repairer . |
| 19 | I worry all the time in case they tell Mum . |
| 20 | Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes . |
| 21 | A recent correspondence printed in the Regimental Association journal Mars and Minerva alluded to the time in Operation Houndsworth when three aircraft had left from Fairford for the Morvan . |
| 22 | The High Court ruled on June 30 , however , that a pardon conferred on the Black Moslems at the time in return for the release of hostages and signed by the President of the Senate and the then acting head of state Joseph Emmanuel Carter , absolved them of any crimes . |
| 23 | Pouring out of thanks for the young Timothy who spent the time in prayer if you wish to say a short simple prayer of thanks do so end it thank you God and we 'll all join in thank you God . |
| 24 | A clinical smell like solvent that reminded her instantly of the time in hospital when she gave birth to Sousan . |
| 25 | There is pressure to minimise the time in hospital . |
| 26 | Most of the time in negotiation is usually spent over the terms of the warranties . |
| 27 | The existing age of transfer was to be kept at eleven to keep the time in grammar school to at least four years , since the ‘ new ’ school leaving age was to be fifteen . |
| 28 | He had a means of doing this since she was at the time in danger of being disbarred after allegations that she had defrauded a Catholic charity active in Africa . |
| 29 | They had an hour to get back to the rendezvous with their submarine when the storm strengthened , tossing them high on one wave before they slithered off its back to meet the next great sea , all the time in danger of broaching-to across the waves that could then roll them over . |
| 30 | I was one of those people who 're sick all the time in pregnancy , not just in the mornings , I was sick day after day for hours . |