Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Their eyes held for a long time and then he rested back on his elbows and looked at the treetops , his face suddenly serious . |
| 3 | I would prefer , at the risk of offending the purists , to take a robust attitude , and simply say that it is a decision made at a particular time in response to a particular situation against a particular political background , and is poor material on which to build any general proposition . |
| 4 | Best editor seen for a long time . |
| 5 | Yeah , I 'm rather concerned that this kind of thing seems to be happening rather a lot , I mean this is so reminiscent of what happened in the , the four maisonette in in Fern Hill where we had empty blocks left for a long time erm becoming a magnet for vandalism and all kinds of everything ! |
| 6 | A smaller , or zero tuning delay is best set when facilities are unavailable or the machine is lightly loaded to maximise the work achieved in a discrete time interval . |
| 7 | The amount of colour developed during a fixed time is proportional to the tissue type plasminogen activator activity in the sample . |
| 8 | The starting position is that of eligibility set at a particular time . |
| 9 | For example , one director commented that when he saw a topic referred to a few times then it would ‘ click ’ in his mind , and he would then consider if it could have some significance to his company . |
| 10 | A single-shell wooden coffin disintegrated in a shorter time , thereby releasing space within the soil for further deposits , to the financial advantage of the incumbent . |
| 11 | It is not sufficient for social psychologists merely to define attitudes in terms of a stance taken at a particular time , with the assumption that such a stance has a fixity , which is only to be shifted by the reception of ‘ persuasive information ’ . |
| 12 | This implication was later firmed up by the Sages of the Second Commonwealth to become a fully-fledged rabbinic declaration of exemption embracing nearly all of the positive commandments whose fulfilment depended upon a specific time of the day or year — an exemption which rapidly came to be viewed in terms of actual exclusion ( Kidd . |
| 13 | Patients were still taking omeprazole when they had the tests done for a second time . |
| 14 | The men talked for a long time . |
| 15 | These considerations lead lenders to charge different rates for the same amount loaned for a given time period to , say , the government , a commercial company and a private individual . |
| 16 | We had to get through to the ministry that in informatics , you do n't have originals and copies , you just have the information issued at a certain time by the sender . |
| 17 | Have n't had my hand kissed for a long time . ’ |
| 18 | The society 's charitable project soon got round the underworld , and in January 1773 they had a card hung in Westminster Jail stating that their charity was likely to be imposed upon ‘ by artful and designing villains who cause themselves to be arrested and imprisoned a day before the Society makes a distribution and thus come in for relief designed for the Poor distressed debtors imprisoned for a long time . ‘ |
| 19 | No serious , in summer , it 's alright now good wind blow you can get the clothes dried in a reasonable time but in the winter you ca n't |
| 20 | External reliability can be measured by comparing the test scores obtained by one tester working with the same group of children on two separate occasions separated by a short time interval . |
| 21 | If the long and complex passage of Athenaeus 6 ( 273a–275b ) , which Felix Jacoby gives as fragment 59 , can be considered a trustworthy summary of Posidonius ' views about Roman civilization , two features emerge : ( a ) the Romans preserved for a long time their extreme simplicity of life ; ( b ) in that long period they learnt many techniques from various foreigners ( Greeks , Etruscans , Samnites and Iberians ) and their constitutional principles from the Spartans . |
| 22 | The Princess found herself pigeon holed for a long time as a result of those early associations , but they were nevertheless a useful apprenticeship . |
| 23 | Designed to combine all the tools required for a real time emergency or training simulation , EIS provides full colour facility maps , data sheets , key personnel details and ensures effective communication between operation centres faces with a chemical release . |