Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as the slightest of doubts about him crossed my mind — perhaps during one of his endless lists of the women 's sexual problems — he would throw in a sensible remark about the funding of the National Health Service , or the small amount of time GPs can offer patients , and recovered his credibility . |
| 2 | According to the LFS code book , temporary jobs in the first category can include jobs the termination of which " is fixed for , by example , reaching a certain date or completing an assignment , or by return of an employee who has been temporarily replaced " ( our italics ) i.e. jobs that could fit equally well into the second category whilst jobs in the second category are taken to include those with " a work contract for a specific task or a fixed period of time " ( our italics ) i.e jobs that could fit equally well into the first category . |
| 3 | He will have done such an act if he does something which substantially impedes his ability to return the goods by the end of the period ( whether that be a stipulated period or a reasonable length of time ) . |
| 4 | A legal estate is the right to possess land for a determinate or an indefinite period of time . |
| 5 | A survey by the working party of the top 100 UK companies indicated that the average period of time from the interim date to the release of the interim results was 53 days . |
| 6 | Branson had long felt that the greatest drawback to Time Out was its left-wing politics . |
| 7 | I perceived that the orthodox view of Time , as gradually established in the Western world , was a mistaken one . |
| 8 | We noted in Chapter 3 that the large amounts of time allocated to language and mathematics were sometimes the least efficiently used . |
| 9 | And presumably the advantage of using a computer for that is much greater than the mere saving of time in a library and taking out a card and putting it in a wallet or erm a card folder or something like that , because you can retain in your computer a lot of information about what books are in the library and what books are out with lenders and so on . |
| 10 | In the first place , Retin-A has only been proved effective on those wrinkles which have been caused by sun damage rather than the inevitable march of time . |
| 11 | As D. S. Landes has pointed out , whereas the public clock could be used to open and close markets , to signal the start and end of work and to move people around , it signalled only moments rather than the continual passage of time . |
| 12 | The life sentence is indeterminate and although the average length of time served is just over ten years , many men stay in prison for much longer periods . |
| 13 | Although the practical difficulties of time measurement were such that until the middle of the seventeenth century most clocks had but one hand and the dial was divided only into hours and quarters , the abstract framework of uniformly divided time gradually became the new medium of daily existence . |
| 14 | This case was successful from a conservation viewpoint , although a considerable investment of time and resources was required from a consortium of interests , which had to take financial risks . |
| 15 | Well I think people think that a certain amount of time and attention has to be devoted to the Party 's constitution , and there are two things that arose out of the conference in Brighton . |
| 16 | The Standing Orders of the House , particularly those of the House of Commons , do ensure that a substantial amount of time is made available for non-governmental business . |
| 17 | Inaccessible public transport systems have meant that a good deal of time and resources have gone towards enabling people to travel to and from meetings . |
| 18 | The imperative for a writer of a chronological survey is that a defined period of time is covered ; this may be linked with a theme , such as the history of styles in Gombrich 's case , but it is unlikely to be linked solely with a spotlight on quality . |
| 19 | The most obvious is that a larger amount of time is required from the writer . |
| 20 | The IBA must ensure that a sufficient amount of time in the programmes is given to news and news features and that all news given in the programmes … is presented with due accuracy and impartiality . |
| 21 | yeah but he wondered if just that a short period of time could just get your Lordship a question of |
| 22 | In Belfast , this problem was in practice rather severe since most refusals came from higher-status households , so that a large amount of time and effort was expended in recording small numbers of such speakers . |
| 23 | Him apart though it was pretty much all no-hopers — nothing more than a total waste of time and a convenient way for Paul to take the pressure off himself . |
| 24 | Unlike in certain other European countries , British labour law sets no maximum duration to a temporary employment relationship , whereby all persons employed for longer than a certain period of time automatically have permanent status . |
| 25 | One complainant wrote to say that this milestone in the study of human sexuality was nothing more than a complete waste of time and simply confirmed the writer 's conviction that ‘ the male population is a herd of prancing , leering goats ’ . |
| 26 | But most killers are not homicidal maniacs and the victim contributes much more than a mere coincidence of time and place to his own fate . |
| 27 | If the buyer retains the goods for more than a reasonable length of time without informing the seller that he rejects them . |
| 28 | Where there has been a lapse of more than a reasonable length of time from the time the contract was made . |
| 29 | I hope that my painting stands beyond the moment ; I want it to be about the human situation rather than a fleeting moment in time or a specific view ’ . |
| 30 | The second possibility is that the Government have moved the guillotine motion on the ground that an inordinate amount of time has already been spent debating the Bill . |