Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] time [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Universities are ready to go for the big time and exploit their earning capacity in a way they have n't in the past . |
| 2 | In Romania the legacy of the late President Ceausescu 's National Stalinism' will persist for a considerable time and the directions of change can not easily be predicted . |
| 3 | Train services on the Esk Valley line were delayed for a short time and the Sprinter train was allowed to continue its journey after it had been examined by experts . |
| 4 | He would gaze for a long time and , when Gabriel had finished his tasks , would settle again until the ghost reinforced itself somewhere else a few days later . |
| 5 | If I add that the majority of Cubists were formerly considered to be Fauves , I can demonstrate how far these young artists have come in a short time and the logic of their vision . |
| 6 | I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke . |
| 7 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
| 8 | The clothes had not been disturbed for a long time and were as thick and tangled as jungle foliage . |
| 9 | I 've been pushing for a long time but erm down here ? |
| 10 | Sailors from off the boats would be looking for a good time and public bars would resound to the sound of many voices . |
| 11 | Basilican churches continued to be built for a long time but many variations of form developed , with one dominant theme : a dome , or domes over an open space below . |
| 12 | He warned his players to expect a hostile reception in England and said : ‘ We came mentally prepared for a hard time and determined to give our answer out there on the field . |
| 13 | They are , no doubt , conditioned by the environment in which they live , they act in a given time and place . |
| 14 | Such an application shall be refused unless made within a reasonable time and will not be granted where the party applying has taken any step in the proceedings after knowledge of the irregularity . |
| 15 | This is the highest quality educational package I have seen in a long time and is well worth registering . |
| 16 | Without any recourse to molecular interpretation Boltzmann proposed that " the forces which act on the surface of an elementary parallelepiped at the given time but also on the previous extensions , with the promise that the longer the time since they took place the smaller their effect . " |
| 17 | Such policies can not work , because cuts have to be made at a difficult time and even more jobs are lost . |
| 18 | Abnormal development may occur if a protein is not made at the right time or place , or the protein is defective or if too little or too much is made . |
| 19 | Say you were too tired this morning to remember to ask for permission to get up early to meet me and then woke at the right time and did n't want to let me down . |
| 20 | Dust layered the bottom of the chamber pot ; it had not been used for a long time and was probably meant for show . |
| 21 | The Direct Tableware Company sales director Roger Young agrees that it will be next spring before any real growth in catering occurs , but he thinks there might be a slight upturn next month in the top-up business : ‘ It 's heading for the busy time and you ca n't serve customers without knives and forks . ’ |
| 22 | But after plunging towards the relegation zone with just four points from the previous 21 , he admitted : ‘ We have been going through a bad time and We needed this win . ’ |
| 23 | I cycled over from Creeting at the usual time and when I started it were all right . |
| 24 | Poor seed-beds , dry conditions and spraying at the wrong time or the wrong rate could all explain the appearance of the yield-sapping weed . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've not played for a long time and to get a goal in the first ten minutes was incredible . |
| 26 | It was unfortunate that he returned for a short time but this was necessary in order for him to complete training prior to deploying on an operational tour . ’ |
| 27 | These are goods which last for a long time and which yield the household utility-creating services both in the current period and in future periods . |
| 28 | And went on , ‘ When my mother died , ten years ago , my father did what he 'd wanted to do for a long time and moved into here , leaving me the palazzo . ’ |
| 29 | It is generally accepted that in order to watch over an executive , the system of supervision has to be constructed in parallel so that information about the salient issues is extracted at the right time and the process of scrutiny is based on this information and takes place when the decision is still open . |
| 30 | The toxic nature of some animals has been known for a long time and man has utilised their venoms and poisons for various purposes . |