Example sentences of "[adj] time it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a transfer of value is made by associated operations carried out at different times it shall be treated as made at the time of the last of them . |
| 2 | If its policy seemed more or less radical at different times it was n't necessarily changing its view of land reform , but it was keeping its final goal of socialism in sight so it had to make short term expediencies . |
| 3 | Her response — such a lighting up of her face — made me remember how few times it was likely she had been kissed in her whole life : not as a child , by the parents who had given her away ; not by her old foster parents ; not often , I guessed , even by Beatrice and her boys . |
| 4 | And then the the last few times it 's me son 's been aggravating me to go into his caravan , you know what I mean ? |
| 5 | But we 've noticed the last few times it 's all Jacqueline now . |
| 6 | Like the other planets it travels around the Sun in an ellipse , which means that at some times it is closer to the Sun than at others . |
| 7 | Some times it looks like an old woman with a large hooked nose , at other times like a charming young lady with her face turned away over her right shoulder . |
| 8 | But at some times it 's apparent and at other times it 's not . |
| 9 | In medieval times it was one of the largest in England . |
| 10 | Yet in medieval times it was an abundant bird , a useful scavenger in the streets of towns . |
| 11 | In medieval times it was merely an alternative to the already existing Great Northern Road . |
| 12 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 13 | This time it was my landlady 's turn to drop a bomb . |
| 14 | This time it was just a computer error they thought — apparently a fairly common occurrence when there 's been some form of disruption to a claim . |
| 15 | This time it will almost certainly drop a wing , but just easing forwards a little will make a recovery . |
| 16 | Last year Andres Gomez beat him the final ; this time it was Courier and everyone remembers things about him . |
| 17 | Then the ground shook again ; this time it was Steve , ordering them back to the kitchen . |
| 18 | This time it was the turn of Pauls , the food division , to thrive on the back of high pig prices and strong demand for malt from the Japanese whisky industry . |
| 19 | It had never hurt before in anything but high jump but this time it hurt long jumping . |
| 20 | This time it was a consumer-credit and spending boom , not government borrowing , that was causing the problem . |
| 21 | In the second stanza we find him still in the classical world , though this time it is the Greek rather than the Italian , and it begins by being the Greek seen not through the eyes of Frazer , but through the eyes of Keats . |
| 22 | Aliens : ‘ This Time It 's War . ’ |
| 23 | When Hankey explained that , since the war , he had ‘ rather made a point of not voting ’ , to emphasize his detachment from Party politics , the King replied , ‘ But this time it is different . |
| 24 | This time it was on a much larger scale . |
| 25 | This time it seemed to please him . |
| 26 | Now new research has added to that list — this time it can help fight urine infections . |
| 27 | This time it is the home team briefing a visiting General about the Sandhurst courses . |
| 28 | This time it was n't so much a reflex action , an attempt to remove something nasty somewhere down his windpipe , as a deliberate social signal . |
| 29 | But if his empire fails this time it will join the record books as the largest business collapse in the world . |
| 30 | This time it has circulated for public comment drafts of five documents . |