Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the retired admiral spent a long time finding our house … ‘ |
| 2 | Ascending its professional hierarchies takes a long time . |
| 3 | The political organizations require a full time and very disciplined commitment which it is difficult for women with children to fulfil . |
| 4 | They had formulated some vague ideas which would let them use this effect to shorten the perceived time it took to play the games they had to play , but the castle clocks , or perhaps the castle itself , seemed unwilling to cooperate . |
| 5 | The omission of the verb gives an immediacy which would be missing from a construction such as It is a virgin scene ( where the present tense is a direct attempt to make a coding time and content time the same ) . |
| 6 | The 1988–89 Committee spent a long time agonising over the problem of how to keep the broadcasters at arms length , so that their editors would not be able to provide the signal in ways that might be journalistically attractive but would be repugnant to Members . |
| 7 | Even the very best British tabby had a difficult time competing with such dramatic animals . |
| 8 | But then , all this business happened a long time ago . |
| 9 | While some customers took a long time to make decisions , other very complicated projects took longer than anticipated to organise . |
| 10 | But some memories take a long time to go … especially when they 're being preserved by Historical enthusiasts . |
| 11 | The reason why some people take a long time to learn the Technique is because it is much simpler than they think . |
| 12 | Do n't let's just say drugs are bad , because for every one that has a bad time , and some people have a terrible time , you say some people die , I accept that . |
| 13 | In Geurrero State this waiting period was apparently not too long but it appeared that in other areas delays and crowded court lists inevitably meant some people spending a considerable time in custody . |
| 14 | The sweet taste of this victory lingered a long time on the lips of Dublin dykes . |
| 15 | Once ‘ hooked ’ this hobby dominates the spare time of many a dedicated fisherman and Jim is no exception . |
| 16 | However , it is necessary to emphasise that exploration of materials such as sand , clay , soil and wood for sheer delight , without the intervention of an adult , is extremely important and for some children lasts a long time . |
| 17 | Although each institutional investor may still only own a very small percentage of the issued share capital of the company , nevertheless , they have the requisite skills to monitor management effectively , and can act collectively to exert pressure on the managers of the company , thereby overcoming the problem that there is little incentive for the individual shareholder to spend the necessary time and money to inform himself of and perhaps challenge the actions of the directors as the managers of the company . |
| 18 | Although the academic study of Roman law took a long time to have practical effect , by the 1170s and 1180s it was occasionally cited authoritatively in some at least of the courts of the south . |
| 19 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 20 | But nice , attractive , desexualised people having a bad time makes for a ‘ white bread ’ product , a cop-out . |
| 21 | As you now from your own experience , such events take a long time to plan , and the hope is that it will all come together on the day ! |
| 22 | After all , these things happened a long time ago . |
| 23 | All photographic emulsions have a small time gap between the beginning of an exposure and when the image starts to appear . |
| 24 | All photographic emulsions have a small time gap between the beginning of an exposure and when the image starts to appear . |
| 25 | The three Corporals had a dull time in Lille and would often invite prostitutes in from the town to cheer up their afternoons . |
| 26 | Our interpretation of the data rests on the premise that the U-Pb isotope systems in these zircons record the actual time of their formation . |
| 27 | But human beings discovered a long time ago that if the birds were taken away from their homes , they had an uncanny ability to return even across miles of territory that was totally unknown to them . |
| 28 | Researchers investigating the causes of psychological depression spent a long time carefully documenting how severe , traumatizing events that happen to people , such as bereavement or job loss , can induce it . |
| 29 | What bugged me was the way they sampled that line ‘ Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day ’ from the film Withnail and I. It was a shame , since what I liked was the way the album had its own space and logic . |
| 30 | Hard disks last a long time but they do n't last for ever . |