Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [pos pn] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a number of reasons for tutors ' apparent retreat to the classroom , among which may be increasing administrative demands on their time and/or lack of opportunities for recent clinical experience . |
| 2 | He went over the top saying things like , ‘ Faith , I 've seen some acts in my time but none compared to you . ’ |
| 3 | Lester Piggott ( eventually ) who 's ridden a few studs in his time as has |
| 4 | Orchard was one of the most distinguished architects of his time and seems throughout to have dealt with works in Oxford and the neighbourhood . |
| 5 | ( Why Jeffreys should choose to appear in a court at York is puzzling , especially in the wrong clothes for his time and in a building which was erected about 60 years later . ) |
| 6 | The need to avoid bad history is the reason the debate over the teaching of history in schools is so important : what is the proper balance between traditional concerns with royalty and battles as against the need to understand the great political movements of our time and the social and economic conditions which spawned them ? |
| 7 | They 've slain some mighty teams in their time and tomorrow Hereford United are at Huish Park for a tie which should bring pleasure , but could carry pain . |
| 8 | Young people have many calls on their time and inclinations . |
| 9 | Enthusiasts however , may have to be gently discouraged from making too many demands on your time and that when you ask a question you are not automatically expecting any action . |
| 10 | ‘ Sometimes , old boy — and I speak as one who has changed a good many nappies in his time and is not a total stranger to either the washing-up bowl or the kitchen stove — sometimes I wish we were still living in the good old bad old days . ’ |
| 11 | He reckoned that he had built so many locomotives in his time that it was no longer necessary to undertake normal design work . |
| 12 | So why not go along and give Fiona McVey five minutes of your time while having lunch or join her for coffee in the coffee lounge on the first floor of A30 on 24 February between 12 noon and 1.30pm . |
| 13 | Five minutes of your time and patience could alter — oh , the universe — for me . ’ |
| 14 | Give me fifteen minutes of your time and you 'll hire me . |
| 15 | The economic stresses of our time and the pressures of international competition make it more necessary than ever before that Britain 's work-force should possess the skills and attitudes , and display the understanding , the enterprise and adaptability that the pervasive impact of technological advance will increasingly demand . |
| 16 | But their clerical vestments weighed lightly upon them : faced with conflicting claims on their time and loyalty from Church and Crown , they almost invariably obeyed the secular authority . |
| 17 | Parents of young children , with so many other calls on their time and affections , might find it harder to cope with a difficult infant , to integrate her or him into the family — while resentful siblings could cause additional strain . |
| 18 | In these cases , financial security , a reluctance to move to a new employer , and proximity to the statutory pension age , coupled with a desire to do other things with their time or simply to stop working , led them to opt for early retirement . |
| 19 | In this type of mistaken fabrication of early history , by the construction of an opposite to the present , Marx and Engels were following many other writers of their time but , as we shall see , because of the nature of their theory , this was particularly harmful in their case . |