Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mounting economic problems in Japan and Germany , and the London property crisis , could mean that economic revival will be long deferred ; a party whose record made the Financial Times refuse to back it is going to have its work cut out to keep in control . |
| 2 | Given the turbulent times which still afflict the industry , this is a remarkable achievement . |
| 3 | Given the long times required to charge the larger rods , you can see that after getting a first qualitative result with the smallest rods within a few weeks , a proper quantitative analysis to test the variation with rod diameter and current , and so establish the nature of the effect would take a long time . |
| 4 | Let us instead sing the praises of those who get us to smile — the Hundred Funniest ( say we ) People in Britain : those indomitable men and women who help us to cackle through our tears , and who , while they do n't make the bad times any better , certainly make them hurt less . |
| 5 | Christopher Brown , managing director of the City-based Corney & Barrow bar and restaurant chain is quite right when he insists the hearty times of eating and drinking will return , ‘ because people still want to meet and talk ’ . |
| 6 | Their campaign reflected the uncertainties and weakness that led the Financial Times to back Labour . |
| 7 | The point that I made to the Committee is that if we wish to reduce the hours of the House or change the sitting times — that is still an open question — it is important that we consider how the time of the House is used at present and to make reductions pro rata . |
| 8 | We knew we would enjoy the wild times for two weeks and then regret it . |
| 9 | IN A move which highlights the hard times facing the City , more than 200 institutions yesterday agreed to take on the risk of underwriting the £5.3billion water sell-off at commission rates worth a total of just £33million . |
| 10 | The insurance giant has had an office in Glasgow 's West Regent Street since 1988 but it now plans to purchase the four times bigger and brighter Fitzpatrick House in the heart of the city . |
| 11 | She felt a coldness inside her and did her best to remember the happy times of her childhood . |
| 12 | I should have done the Financial Times . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The director of elections for SFWP , Gerry Doherty , told the Irish Times that a mining company representative told him the donation was made ‘ to help safeguard democracy and stop tyranny setting in ’ . |
| 15 | That mining might mean the end of the road for the town , with a population of some 6,000 people , did not unduly worry the man from the Department of Economic Development — Northern Ireland ( DEDNI ) , Ivor Greene , who told the Irish Times ‘ If it was decided that the time was proper for mining to proceed , Ballymoney could disappear but the people would be well compensated if it came to that ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , it 'll definitely be this Tuesday , ’ he told The Scotsman but then told the Irish Times it would be 1 April . |
| 17 | When he arrived at the BBC as deputy Director-General in 1987 , John Birt even told the Financial Times that he found the place ‘ crudely , thoughtlessly anti-Establishment . ’ |
| 18 | The petrochemical industry 's current and immediate future state is a ‘ classic example of the good , the bad and the ugly ’ , Doug Campbell , deputy chief executive of BP Chemicals , told the Financial Times petrochemicals conference in London recently . |
| 19 | Companies told the Financial Times that ‘ much of the opposition to their plans is ill-informed and orchestrated by outsiders . |
| 20 | It was depressing looking through her clothes , and remembering the good times she had spent wearing some of these dresses and blouses . |
| 21 | By the sixteenth century mining operations had become closely regulated by the clock according to Agricola ( Georg Bauer ) , who in his De re metallica , of 1555 , noted the precise times of shifts . |
| 22 | ‘ I was acting the other times , yes . ’ |
| 23 | I stood looking at the pools of water lying on the pitch , the door of the directors ' Portakabin swinging back and forth on its one remaining hinge , and I recalled the good times , remembered the bad . |
| 24 | But you 're not gon na do the other times . |
| 25 | Pearson , the media group whose interests span The Financial Times to Madame Tussauds , was heavily in demand as half-year profits were considerably higher than the City had been expecting . |
| 26 | Decent Labour win : the drinks are on me , as I soberly consider the difficult times ahead , and the paradise that will surely succeed them . |
| 27 | I do , I hope but we appreciated Claire and Steven had her more than we had , but you know , we 've had the odd times we 've virtually been across there a month or something like , but but when you have a position where you have five |
| 28 | Swindon did see the good times . |
| 29 | Night fishing entails about twelve hours at the water to fish the best times . |
| 30 | Daytime fishing entails at least twenty hours , probably more , to fish the best times . |