Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah yes but it 's not tipped correctly most of the time . |
| 2 | Learner access to video playback outside the classroom is becoming increasingly possible at a time when " self-access " or " individualised learning " is receiving a lot of attention from the teaching profession . |
| 3 | ONE OF FIVE children who father , a bookie , died young , Lenny McLean grew up in one of the tougher parts of London 's East End , left school at fifteen and , as a young man , started to make a few quid in the unlicensed boxing matches which were becoming increasingly popular at the time . |
| 4 | They fit tightly most of the time because of the damp , but when we have a hot dry summer they shrink and you can lift them up easily . |
| 5 | I was shattered pretty much of the time , my sleep was interrupted and I forgot about everything else . |
| 6 | Notice that we can specify only one at a time of the gates controlled by such a field , so we must encode as one group only gates which need never be opened together . |
| 7 | But it is possible that both views were influenced by hindsight and that matters seemed less clear-cut at the time . |
| 8 | But it is possible that both views were influenced by hindsight and that matters seemed less clear-cut at the time . |
| 9 | Tosh , also a junior , came home second in a time of 1.29.32 with Belfast 's Gary Wilson a close third in 1.30.05 . |
| 10 | Both would appear increasingly outmoded at a time when technological innovation was presented as indispensable to the modernization of the economy , ‘ the computerization of society ’ . |
| 11 | The observation that there was spontaneous electrical activity at the surface of the cortex seemed relatively insignificant at the time , but it was the discovery of the electro-encephalogram . |
| 12 | For capitalism the land was a factor of production and a commodity peculiar only by its immobility and limited quantity , though , as it happens , the great opening of new lands at this period made these limitations appear relatively insignificant for the time being . |
| 13 | He seemed pretty confident about the time . " |
| 14 | I did and I passed the exam ( which seemed very important at the time , although now I am not so sure ) . |
| 15 | But then , in the early '70s , Bristol was very raffish : the port connection made it a terribly druggy city , which to a student seemed very exciting at the time . ’ |
| 16 | Defeat left Everton with a far from comfortable eight point cushion above the relegation zone and Kendall said : ‘ We defended well most of the time but let ourselves down in injury time . |
| 17 | The third is that they may say things that seem absolutely correct at the time , but which are made ludicrous by the unfolding of events . |
| 18 | I do n't think Zbigniew 's marriage to Tatyana was going too swell at the time . |
| 19 | With my guitar , I was trying to sound like Lightning Hopkins and John Lee Hooker and people like this , and we just thought … ‘ this sounds OK ’ , and it did n't sound too bad at the time . |
| 20 | The misleadingly alarming appearance of our conclusions results from the fact that they show that where conformity is called for it is based only some of the time , and less often than is often imagined , on the legitimate authority of the government , and often on other considerations . |
| 21 | Maybe it was nothing more than the statistical impossibility of everyone staying home all of the time . |
| 22 | Because most people 's range of social experience has become quite limited by the time they have attained adulthood , such observations are nearly always selective and may be hard to interpret or simply misleading . |
| 23 | When Milton is resting he is turned out during the day , but he has to be put in a field without much grass because he is incurably greedy and , given the opportunity , gets very fat in no time at all . |
| 24 | Erm then he moves on to the middle peasants erm they 're similar , I mean once again they , they 've got enough to eat , they are , they are n't under as much stress , I mean th th they can su survive and so the idea of them risking all to support a revolution would be very er you know very risky at the time at the beginning er the opening period erm so once again th th I 'd say their conclusion is afraid not , you know , I wo n't join a peasant association , i it wo n't last . |
| 25 | He made sure that Dosh — or Freddie — sat next to him , so I ended up with Freddie or Dosh in the back seat and she was getting very friendly by the time we got to Knightsbridge . |
| 26 | She looked back over that stormy summer and was surprised to see each scene , even the ones that had seemed rather painful at the time , shining with an almost holy silver light . |
| 27 | The researcher who collects data on everything under the sun , just because it seems so easy at the time to ask a few more questions about this and that , usually rues the day when the analysis of all the answers has to be carried out . |
| 28 | This seems highly unlikely at a time when high street stores are holding sales before Christmas . |
| 29 | As such it seems particularly appropriate for a time of rapid change and the need to unlearn dogmatism . |
| 30 | The return trek can seem like a very long haul but all the effort seems well worthwhile by the time you 're comfortably sitting in the bar at the Sligachan Hotel cradling your glass of single malt . |