Example sentences of "[adj] 's time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The role of the non-executive : Of course , not all of a non-executive 's time is spent looking outwards at the wider world . |
| 2 | Expanded by three tracks from the original edition — including a brilliant trot through ‘ Aladdin Sane 's Time ’ — ‘ David Live ’ is a bit floppy in places in the manner of many live doubles , but it 's still a loveable artefact . |
| 3 | Expanded by three tracks from the original edition — including a brilliant trot through ‘ Aladdin Sane 's Time ’ — ‘ David Live ’ is a bit floppy in places in the manner of many live doubles , but it 's still a loveable artefact . |
| 4 | If things are really bad , you are getting nowhere and you feel that an argument is developing , the best action is to state politely that you are not willing to be interviewed in such a manner , that you are clearly wasting one another 's time and you have decided to leave . |
| 5 | In Oxfordshire the Stonesfield slate-pits and mines shut down one by one during the second half of the nineteenth century ; in Leicestershire the Swithland slate-quarries , which had been worked since Henry III 's time , shut down altogether in 1887 ; and so it was in nearly every county in England . |
| 6 | The exclusion of the lay influence from top to bottom had taken place before Innocent III 's time . |
| 7 | The lengthy , complicated and interesting case of Richard of Anstey ( of some two generations before Innocent III 's time ) shows how it was already accepted that the Crown could have no jurisdiction over the solemn sacrament of marriage , though at this stage the canon law of marriage and what actually constituted a legal marriage was extremely fluid . |
| 8 | Beneath the surface , the model in Pius XII 's time had not greatly changed even if communism had , understandably enough , replaced either Protestantism or liberalism as the chief immediate foe . |
| 9 | Since Henry II 's time the advowson , or right of presentation to a benefice , had been construed as though it were a piece of landed property justiciable in the king 's courts , not the church 's . |
| 10 | It was not uncommon , even by Edward II 's time , for a benefice to be forcefully defended against a royal presentee , or for him to be physically assaulted . |
| 11 | ( This meant that till Philip II 's time Macedon was short of good harbours . ) |
| 12 | According to Ali , the Ayasofya medrese was already a 60-akce medrese In Mehmed II 's time ; and it appears generally to have been the case that it and , from the time of Bayezid II , the medrese of Murad II in Bursa ( the Muradiye ) and , more particularly , that of Bayezid II himself in Edirne , completed in 893/1488 , ranked higher in the first half of the sixteenth century than the Sahn in the sense that the muderrises appointed to them were normally promoted from the Sahn . |
| 13 | As discussed above , in Mehmed II 's time there were , as far as one can tell , basically three grades of medreses above the 40-akce level : and the Sahn . |
| 14 | In May 1711 , Jonathan Swift wrote that the two parties had so shifted their principles since Charles II 's time , " that those two fantastick Names of Whig and Tory , have at present very little Relation to those Opinions , which were at first thought to distinguish them " . |
| 15 | The first is an invaluable collection of popular tunes with instructions for dancing to them , which reached its eighteenth edition around 1728 ; the second contains pieces for viols and vocal rounds and catches , a peculiarly English form of musical amusement which had flourished briefly in James I 's time ( Thomas Ravenscroft 's collections Pammelia , Deuteromelia , and Melismata , 1609–11 ) , languished for forty years , and now took a very much longer lease of life . |
| 16 | ‘ Ask me in a year or two 's time ’ she replied . |
| 17 | Seamen , after receiving their pay would slip into the hand of the door messenger sums varying between half-a-crown and a sovereign , with the confidential whisper " do n't forget me when I am ready to sign on in a week or two 's time " . |
| 18 | ‘ I will , of course , be happy to go in a week or two 's time , but if it 's at all possible , I very much want to be in London in July . |
| 19 | Ebles of Ventadour , the only other troubadour known from William IX 's time , came from the Limousin , and most of the outstanding song-writers of the next generation — Cercamon , Marcabru , Jaufré Rudel , Bernard de Ventadour — lived and worked within the borders of Aquitaine . |
| 20 | Osbern records the presence of royal housecarls to prevent interference by the Londoners , and this can be fitted into a credible historical context of popular hostility to the Danes in the city , arising from the fighting and sieges of Æthelred 's time , the heavy taxation of 1018 , and the probability that Cnut found it prudent to maintain a garrison there . |
| 21 | US West Inc , which last week was talking about the multimedia database system it is developing with Oracle Corp ( CI No 2,166 ) , is stepping up its commitment to infotainment by agreeing to pay $2,500m for a 25% stake in Time Warner Inc 's Time Warner Entertainment affiliate — in which Toshiba Corp and Japanese trader Itochu Corp each has a stake — to seal a deal under which the two companies will collaborate to develop electronic superhighways — full-service cable networks offering interactive programming , entertainment and information . |
| 22 | Time Warner Inc 's Time Warner Cable has bought an AT&T Co GCNS-2000 Asynchronous Transfer Mode switch as a key component of its Full Service Network electronic superhighway it is constructing in the Orlando , Florida area . |