Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Rome , an advert for a laundry reads : ‘ Ladies , leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time . ’ |
| 2 | Suppose that the contract contains a simple time limit clause such as : The Buyer will notify the Seller of any claim it may have against the Seller for breach of contract within three days of delivery and that the seller delivers short of the required quantity and the goods are later found to suffer from a latent defect . |
| 3 | The decision to appoint a full time teacher will mean day classes can continue . |
| 4 | If the University requires a prime time slot on , for example , a Saturday , it may be necessary for the Club to seek sponsorship . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , the driver spent a long time finding our house … ‘ |
| 6 | The pig spent the whole time being smacked to and fro , hence ‘ piggie in the middle ’ . |
| 7 | The seal spent a long time underwater , thinking . |
| 8 | It seemed to Lefevre that the splash took a long time in coming . |
| 9 | The girl spent a long time wondering whether she could pluck up courage to mention she 'd thought of going to the Swimming Gala if her mother really felt there was nothing she could do . |
| 10 | ‘ The coach arrived a long time ago ! |
| 11 | We welcome the proposal to reduce the statutory time limit on all existing and future permissions which we believe is essential if minerals operations are to be brought up to and maintained at modern standards or reviewed to assess whether they should be extinguished because the environmental costs of working is too high . |
| 12 | You can also have the prompt show the current time and date , by using PROMPT $D$T$G |
| 13 | Each job is represented by a horizontal bar on a time base , the length of the bar indicating the estimated time for the job . |
| 14 | Each job is represented by a horizontal bar on a time base , the length of the bar indicating the estimated time for the job . |
| 15 | All money purchase schemes are potentially unpredictable , and are especially likely to lose value through monetary inflation ( and not least if the annuitant lives a long time ) unless the annuity is fully index-linked , which is not the case under present legislation . |
| 16 | Underline the need to maximise the short time available to them to their best advantage . |
| 17 | The Cage disappeared a long time ago in the past , leaving whoever buys the property , a clear view across the Chilterns into the future . |
| 18 | He was a perfectionist , and the job took a long time . |
| 19 | — hit the bottle with a vengeance when the group made the big time . |
| 20 | The stitching takes a long time and hurts Stig a lot more than it hurts the rest of us . |
| 21 | THE head went a long time ago , then it was the legs — but on Thursday night it was Martina Navratilova 's heart that had gone from her game . |
| 22 | Couple this with a quality assessment system which is riddled with jargon and technical description and the caterer has a hard time deciding what he or she is going to buy and from which company . |
| 23 | The chemicals are water-borne and the timber takes a long time to dry out . |
| 24 | The news followed a Financial Times report that discussions were believed to have been under way for several weeks with a number of prospective buyers , but were most advanced with the US foods and tobacco giant , Philip Morris . |
| 25 | Mrs Theresa Briscoe , a widow with a farm within 500 yards of the mine told the Irish Times that since the mine opened she had lost four horses and some fifty cattle and sheep to lead poisoning . |
| 26 | The code contains the scheduled time of the start of the programme , plus day of the month . |
| 27 | The embrace lasted a long time . |
| 28 | The train stood a long time in Gloucester Road station , for no apparent reason . |
| 29 | The Government faces a difficult time as it prepares to get its legislation on student loans through Parliament . |
| 30 | The five members of the jury had a difficult time choosing the winner from the eight finalists , says Colin Bruder , general manager of Guinness GmbH . |