Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most sufferers do n't realise their chiggers have departed because the eschars remain itchy for a long time afterwards . |
| 2 | The British banks have attracted criticism for a long time over their failure to provide long-term finance to industry , and to develop lasting relationships with industrial customers . |
| 3 | It simulates a design and build project on a compressed time scale and models the commercial consequences of designing , planning , estimating , tendering for and building to , a contract and specification . |
| 4 | But although I played lead for a long time in the group I never cite lead players like Clapton or Beck . |
| 5 | Commenting on the appointment , The Hindu of June 8 stated that Verma assumed charge at a critical time " when terrorist activity has increased as compared to last year , and the law and order machinery appears demoralized " . |
| 6 | Aids dementia is more common in those who have had AIDS for a long time , and in some instances the dementia is probably due to other organisms attacking the brain . |
| 7 | We 've got to get the things to do but quite often if you are , we 've got to have those things to do you 've got finish by a particular time . |
| 8 | A wall that has been damp will often contain moisture for a long time after the cause has been remedied , so it is better to allow the walls to dry out naturally , although anti-damp paint could be used to allow the room to be decorated before the wall has dried out . |
| 9 | The second method for regeneration to be initiated is by a time clock , so that it takes place at a convenient time such as during the night . |
| 10 | Out takes place at an unspecified time several decades after the unexplained but presumably cataclysmic event known as the ‘ displacement ’ . |
| 11 | Once a man knows of his right it is more difficult to say that it was not reasonably practicable to give notice within a reasonable time . |
| 12 | The upward spiral on which film budgets were set suggests that Rank might have had to go on losing money for a long time before hitting on a way to achieve a steady supply of sellable films . |
| 13 | He was educated at Rossall School and Magdalene College , Cambridge , where he obtained a third class in English in 1921 , having abandoned law after a short time . |
| 14 | While this is not insignificant ( a weakness of the lecture or the teacher-directed lesson is that it must take place at a pre-set time irrespective of student readiness ) it is hardly Liberty Hall . |
| 15 | For example storytime might take place at an established time towards the end of the school day , but in a follow-up session the next day questions could be asked to see how much they remember of the story , or one child could be asked to retell the story they heard yesterday ( see Boxes 4 and 5 ) . |
| 16 | Such a process has been taking place for a long time . |
| 17 | Ibrahim Bu Shanna , reaching maturity at a propitious time , had opportunities to achieve success in trade denied to his elder brother , who grew up during the war : the elder brother was a gardener , who lived subordinate in every way except the symbolic to Ibrahim , a successful wholesaler . |
| 18 | consignee not taking or accepting delivery within a reasonable time after the Consignment has been tendered . |
| 19 | consignee not taking or accepting delivery within a reasonable time |
| 20 | You see when committees are meeting at two o'clock usually have a much shorter agenda than this committee discussion but to enable to this committee and to do its job properly , I would think we 'd be looking where possible to be able to discuss items properly and to get start at a reasonable time like we do . |
| 21 | The child who uses goed or comed is guilty of over-generalisation , while in sign the use of repetition to convey occurrence over a long time would be appropriate in WAIT-WAIT-WAIT , meaning ‘ wait for ages ’ but not in KEEP-KEEP-KEEP , where it would probably mean to ‘ keep three ’ things rather than to ‘ keep over time ’ . |
| 22 | ( 5 ) Where under a contract of sale the transfer of the property in the goods is to take place at a future time or subject to some condition later to be fulfilled the contract is called an agreement to sell . |
| 23 | I have loved Rose for a long time , and nothing will ever change that . ’ |
| 24 | Bacteria survive heat for a short time . |
| 25 | A landscape of open moorland , for example , will revert to scrub woodland in a short time if grazing and heather burning are restricted . |
| 26 | Other methods of stimulating volume might include controlling trading hours ( by concentrating liquidity in a particular time frame , as on the metal and cocoa rings ) or by lengthening the hours , to attract business from other time zones . |
| 27 | Always Defect resists invasion for a long time . |
| 28 | By contrast the larger class-D animals , living on grasslands where rainfall varies , are less selective and so long as they do not crop the grass too close many animals can cover the same foraging area in a short time . |
| 29 | Taken in connection with the fact that Liverpool is the greatest seaport in the world , that one alone should remain a disorganised prey to designing knaves is one of the strange and unaccountable anomalies which frequently escape notice for a long time but only to be ultimately felt with greater force and overcome with greater resolution " . |
| 30 | ‘ We have talking for a long time about how the company might change structurally , and many of Alan Gordon Walker 's proposals would have left me with a job that I did n't want to do , ’ she said . |