Example sentences of "[adj] time [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When freshly prepared , a period of 30 min or more may be required to stain the slides , but with maturity , this stain " ripens " and staining times can be progressively shortened . |
| 2 | New Zealand farmers lost all subsidies in the mid-1980s — because a government facing tough economic times could no longer afford them . |
| 3 | He knew about the river ; in different times might have worked on it , happily and well . |
| 4 | The intention is to investigate these choices in their social , political and economic context to discover how different pressures at different times might have influenced them . |
| 5 | The paper is ambitious and given its scope , inevitably , some interesting assertions are not fully developed , inter alia that using psychodynamic theory at different times will have different meanings for practitioners ; and that in the UK a preoccupation with anti-discriminatory perspectives has slowed down theory building . |
| 6 | Both will be during the afternoon — detailed times should be checked with the office nearer the day . |
| 7 | It need not take very long but it should be fairly strenuous — running up and down stairs a few times will do . |
| 8 | The canny squire in medieval times would keep one ear open to what the messengers and washerwomen were saying and would be careful to drop hints to other knights about how much he admired them . |
| 9 | I would n't say there was much between the two teams apart from the first half here this afternoon when United , I have n't seen United dominate a side so much for a very long time , and really , I mean you were here Peter , three or four nil at half time would not have been a bad reflection on United 's performance in any way at all . |
| 10 | Editor , — The BMJ is to be congratulated on highlighting the difficulty doctors have when they seek to train and work in the hospital service on a less than full time basis — a reasonable aspiration when you realise that the average working week for people other than doctors is 37.5 hours yet for doctors half time can be in excess of 40 hours . |
| 11 | I think the price this time might be lower but competition between rival bidders might mean that Stakis can get a sum close to £9m . |
| 12 | Help at this time may help you or the person you look after to remain at home as confidence is slowly regained in managing in a new situation . |
| 13 | Although acrylic varnishes are dry in about 30 minutes , they continue to harden over a period of 24–48 hours , but here again this time may vary between different makes . |
| 14 | The mood by this time may be more depressed , as they start to look at their own problems as opposed to those of their partner . |
| 15 | Although much of the area around a pool at this time may be exposed rock , the gobies never land on it . |
| 16 | On the other hand the fine ivory work from Nimrud suggests that the Assyrians made use of the workshops of Tyre , which by this time may have been constrained to use ivory from Africa . |
| 17 | If it is true that kings only legislated when faced with an urgent need to enhance their standing with their subjects by prestigious acts of law-making , the appearance of royal codes of law in Kent and Wessex at this time may reflect something of the very considerable crisis through which these regions had recently passed . |
| 18 | On stylistic grounds other northern castles built or rebuilt at this time may be attributed to him , notably Raby and Sheriff Hutton ( 1382 ) , and perhaps also Lumley in county Durham and Wressle , Yorkshire . |
| 19 | Alterations in class composition around this time may have to some extent re-ordered the direction of artistic patronage . |
| 20 | This time Let's take that off . |
| 21 | But as workers were busily removing the offending logo from the congress hall yesterday , there were many signs that the change this time would be more than superficial . |
| 22 | It was held that about half this time would serve except in cases of great idleness or stupidity . |
| 23 | This time would vary with the season , thus using imagination and flexibility to help such a client retain some autonomy . |
| 24 | But in fact they did care , because if they had n't the traumas that afflicted Welsh rugby at about this time would have had not effect . |
| 25 | The Council 's presidents this time would not hear of it , no doubt after the consternation which had been caused the day before , and it received a favourable vote . |
| 26 | Then , as now , the paralysis of progressive institutional politics found its echo in the threat of world war — this time would be the last time . |
| 27 | What was not caught this time would be gassed . |
| 28 | And there is no doubt that the visit of Cheney and Powell to the Gulf convinced them that to fight a land war at this time would risk over-straining the support among the American people . |
| 29 | That he was in Bursa by this time would seem to be borne out by his association with Molla Fenari 's son , Mehmed Sah , whose he became at the medrese of Mehmed I ( the Sultan medrese ) in Bursa . |
| 30 | Anybody who dreamt of surrendering that basic safeguard at this time would be doing the gravest disservice to current and possibly to future generations in Britain . |