Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | We have just noted how local politics in Britain has recently become more diversified , but , as Chapter 4 pointed out , this has happened at the same time as political power has become increasingly centralized . |
| 32 | Significant vertical uplift probably began in the Oligocene about 35 Ma ago and has continued to the present time , but at varying rates . |
| 33 | BUCKINGHAM Palace has admitted for the first time that Princess Diana 's marriage is in trouble . |
| 34 | ENGLAND boss Graham Taylor has admitted for the first time that his team flopped in the European Championship finals because they were n't fit enough . |
| 35 | If the files are on computer then the printout should indicate the time that has elapsed since the last time entry on the file . |
| 36 | ‘ It 's probably the most important match either team has faced for a long time . |
| 37 | The policy of keeping the membership subscriptions low has survived to the present time , despite the improvement in the economic circumstances of the deaf community as a whole . |
| 38 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
| 39 | The judgements that have to be made are complex , not least because local government has existed for a long time and the opportunities for building up capital or depleting it have been great . |
| 40 | Mont Blanc , to be sure , has existed for a long time , and probably will exist for a while yet , but it does not work to stay in existence . |
| 41 | In the classical theory of gravity , which is based on real space-time , there are only two possible ways the universe can behave : either it has existed for an infinite time , or else it had a beginning at a singularity at some finite time in the past . |
| 42 | That the miller 's knives substitute for his sexual potency rather than reflect it is indicated by the superiority of the clerk 's performance in bed with his wife to anything he has managed for a long time : He has fathered two children , but , like Bayard , his sexual energy is now exhausted . |
| 43 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 44 | He 'd trusted for the last time . |
| 45 | I liked Terry more than anyone I 'd met for a long time , and we talked every day . |
| 46 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 47 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 48 | Our team lost the game by 125 runs , but they reckoned overall it was the most enjoyable day 's cricket they 'd had in a long time . |
| 49 | The owner was a small exter named Fif , a ball of orange fur with tentacles , whom I 'd known for a long time in various planets . |
| 50 | So we all got very excited because it was the first money we 'd spent for a long time . |
| 51 | We 'd started at the same time . |
| 52 | When TV Times readers voted Crawford 1973 's Funniest Man on TV in the magazine 's Top 10 Awards , it confirmed the phenomenal success that Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em had become in a short time . |
| 53 | Perhaps the second fragment had become detached at the same time and simply fallen to the ground where she had picked it up . |
| 54 | You have to pick yourself up when you get rebuffed for the thousandth time , and despite the discouragement , do n't lose heart . |
| 55 | His next-door neighbours , who are getting married at the same time , also booked with Darlington Wedding Cars but they too have changed their booking . |
| 56 | Peter Butler , 40 , got divorced for the second time two years ago . |
| 57 | It may have formed at the same time as Coed y Brenin . |
| 58 | Now back at Jan Smuts Airport , X-Ray Foxtrot may well have flown for the second time in civvies by the time these words are read . |
| 59 | In Peking 's eyes , the Nobel Peace Prize could not have come at a worse time . |
| 60 | It could scarcely have come at a worse time . |