Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While in Cartagena , Colombia , on Dec. 2-3 for the " Group of Rio " summit [ see p. 38675 ] , President Fujimori of Peru and President Borja of Ecuador met for the first time to discuss their longstanding border dispute [ see p. 38526 ] . |
| 2 | I remarked to my friend , ‘ You 'd have to wait for a long time to get a train from here , ’ he smiled and we both set off for the youth hostel down the road . |
| 3 | The chief executive may know what change is needed , but has to wait for the right time to introduce it . |
| 4 | The Front comprised political and religious organizations and parties based in Iraq and Jordan , including the Moslem Brotherhood , which agreed for the first time to co-operate without preconditions with nationalist and non-religious groups . |
| 5 | In Education there were substantially increased admissions to Initial Teacher Education ( ITE ) including for the first time intending teachers of Business Studies . |
| 6 | There is one important difference : the Prime Minister and his Cabinet can embark boldly upon their way forward , with electoral considerations banished for a long time to come . |
| 7 | On a video-film made at Highlander entitled ‘ Save our Land and People , ’ a variety of these groups speak to each other about their own problems and possible solutions , hopes and fears , and I think it is no accident that some of the most beautiful music and evocative songs which I have heard for a long time comes from these people . |
| 8 | They chatted quietly about old times — and daring for the first time to talk about the future . |
| 9 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |
| 10 | The Portuguese Social Democrats have recently won for the second time running with a slightly increased majority and 50.7 per cent of the votes cast . |
| 11 | Historians will be occupied for a long time to come in determining the exact balance and interaction of forces — including , to mention only the more obvious , the economic disaster of the Second World War , the rise of America , and the development of nationalism — which contributed to Britain 's imperial demise . |
| 12 | Memories of the last will linger for a long time to come . |
| 13 | Given that many of these theories require extremely detailed specifications of grammar rules and lexical entries this has for a long time formed an obstacle to the production of general systems . |
| 14 | Coatings company International Lory has for the second time completed a year without a single lost day accident . |
| 15 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
| 16 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
| 17 | The UK government has for the first time ruled out the award of oil and gas exploration licences in certain areas on environmental grounds . |
| 18 | We are very willing to accept that those parts of the judges ' visitorial jurisdiction which were not incident to the administration of justice in the courts passed down through the routes suggested by Sir William and Professor Baker , but in the context of the present case , where the court has for the first time to inquire into the particular function which is being performed , we are not satisfied that the whole of the visitorial jurisdiction passed by this route . |
| 19 | The new hang has for the first time brought together the figures de fantaisie by Fragonard , the Louvre 's ninety-three Corots , thirty paintings by Chardin and thirteen by Watteau , as well as a rotating selection of the preparatory drawings by Le Brun for his decorative scheme for the Louvre . |
| 20 | So that the training is not unduly prolonged the deans suggest that the undergraduate course could be shortened to compensate for the extra time spent as a house officer . |
| 21 | Two days passed , and on Sunday , 16 December , the schooner tried for a second time to get to Fort Davey but was forced back . |
| 22 | Two months after the military crackdown in Beijing in June 1989 , it was announced that university student intake would be cut from 640,000 to 610,000 in the next academic year , and that " specialities mainly in the social science fields which the State has deemed for a long time to have turned out personnel not qualified for socialist construction " would be suspended . |
| 23 | ‘ This looks like the ideal time to push ahead . ’ |
| 24 | The 1990 Budget clarified the tax position and a recent survey of pension fund managers reported in the Financial Times appears to confirm a growing use of derivative products . |
| 25 | Being a costly enterprise and having many uses to the modern state , research has at the same time come under increased scrutiny from the paymaster . |
| 26 | While attempting to give financial autonomy to schools the government has at the same time failed to help the market — that is , parents and pupils — to decide what subjects should be studied . |
| 27 | It has in the past happened that a client has been advised by the agent to amend an order , has entirely agreed with that advice , but has at the same time pointed out that his authority does not extend to giving a final decision , and this can be awkward . |
| 28 | Edward Blishen , the presenter , has an enviable gift for sketching in background and perspective , drawing up different strands of what was happening at the same time to make his argument , all with ease . |
| 29 | Since they would be stationed on inter-republican boundaries , the Supreme Soviet voted at the same time to work towards a definition of legal state borders with its neighbours by Feb. 1 , 1992 . |
| 30 | Erm , he did have the right to that trial for erm what the previous offence before taking conveyance which was a clock taken without the owner 's consent and previous offence before that taking but in order to reduce costs right mainly because they also want at the same time to remove the right for theft ah and they failed . |