Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | On St Kilda solifluction and the formation of pro-talus ramparts occurred at this time ( Sutherland et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | Scholars in this field had for some time been engaged in a debate over the importance of acquired and inherited personality traits in behaviour . |
| 3 | Some views expressed at this time were not dissimilar to those of the ‘ Li Yi Zhe ’ document , whose authors were released in February 1979 . |
| 4 | Steelworkers in the public sector had for some time been in dispute with their employers , the British Steel Corporation , and had come out on strike . |
| 5 | If we assume that , in the transition region , the restrictions to motion still present in the sample , allow only a few segments to move in some time interval , say 10 s , then considerably fewer will have moved if the observation time is less than 10 s . |
| 6 | Towards the mid-1970s Thai boxing was introduced into the United States , where it has become very popular , partly because it resembles another art introduced at that time , called full-contact karate . |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman has for some time been against the original fast rail link through Kent and south London , and we have learnt tonight that he is against the current project , apparently because he believes that all British Rail 's money should be spent on saving his neck by improving the lousy commuter service that his constituents have had to tolerate for 13 years of Tory misrule — to use a well-known phrase from a couple of decades back . |
| 8 | Lord Herschell was angered by this idea and , says Professor Heuston , ‘ the High Court judges at that time , many of whom were Halsbury 's own appointments , were not on the whole notable for progressive views on social or industrial matters . ’ |
| 9 | This train ran for some time , but was not considered entirely successful . |
| 10 | He 'd heard the daily summary coming through some time after midnight , but he had n't bothered to check it ; anything important or relevant and Stoneley would have telephoned him direct , and there were too many big shadows and dark corners in the schoolroom for his liking . |
| 11 | Few people believed at that time that a bill would be obtained to make a line down Corvedale . |
| 12 | Few people travelled at that time who did n't have to . |
| 13 | Many who had earlier worked against Scottish interests had for some time been making covert approaches and promises through envoys between the two Courts . |
| 14 | They last gave that assurance at the Secretary of State level on the tenth of December ninety two and that was a clear assurance given at that time , that each government has a firm intention to proceed with the next phase of the programme . |
| 15 | With some reason did another Frenchman remark at this time that Britain had become no more than a colony of the American film industry . |
| 16 | If another image occurs during this time , we can not perceive any interval between the first and second images and they appear continuous . |
| 17 | Non-flying mammals have for some time been suspected to be pollinators in a number of vegetation types outside the tropics and , in recent years , this has been proved to be so in both South Africa and Australia . |
| 18 | At this point the coral was extremely stressed , in fact large parts of this colony died at that time . |
| 19 | It is generally agreed that the primitive mammals existing at that time were shrew-like creatures that lived by eating insects , and that the various groups of mammals that we see today , such as cats , rats , monkeys , whales , and horses , all evolved from this unpromising ancestor . |
| 20 | In the Anglo-Italian Cup group A , Notts County two , Pisa one , on eight , Paul on twenty , getting a goal back for Pisa on thirty er approaching half time , six minutes to go before half time , across there with Colin for that half time report as soon as the whistle goes . |
| 21 | People have told me the lemon was to mask the taste of the uneven products made at that time by unscientific country brewers ; I do not believe that . |
| 22 | Most stony meteorites formed at that time as did the irons , which had already solidified from cores or pools of molten metal that lay within their small parent bodies . |
| 23 | Such arrangements have for some time been permitted so long as clients are fully informed of the nature of the company and the profits go to the firm . |
| 24 | No such guide existed at that time ; but summarisation of legal matters in any comprehensive yet comprehensible form is a difficult and risky business , so that the task was not one which the writer regarded with relish . |
| 25 | A lorry was hired to carry our furniture and other belongings to Fontanellato , not an easy thing to arrange at that time as there were few local drivers willing to travel so far . |
| 26 | Do you know how much flowers cost at this time of the year ? |
| 27 | It was a simple matter to determine from this time delay and the ring 's inclination that its real diameter was 1.37 light years . |
| 28 | Many of those who take Christmas jobs in retail stores are , it was suggested , married women who are explicitly seeking a short-term job to help meet the extra expenses incurred at that time of the year . |
| 29 | Whatever your kind of break , the abundance of things to see and do makes Brighton & Hove the right place to head for any time of year . |
| 30 | This process is repeated each time the highest-level index existing at that time requires a third or fourth track to be added . |