Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] times [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would be a nice smell of baking and we 'd be chatting about old times or the grandchildren . |
| 2 | She had undressed many men , she had read somewhere that nakedness was safest , because with the mystery gone humans were just humans , not that exciting , nothing special , and she believed it , for some times and for some human beings . |
| 3 | So many people find it very very difficult , to sort out the difference between simple times and compound times . |
| 4 | In the illustration the trial phase is turned on for fixed times and the rate of current rise , and corresponding rotor position , is deduced from the current level attained at the end of the trial . |
| 5 | If the Althusserian mode of production is made up of differential times and histories , ‘ a complex ‘ intersection ’ of the different times , rhythms , turnovers , etc. ’ , then each element can not express the whole because the whole is only accessible as a concept , which is precisely not expressed at all . |
| 6 | In his speech , the prince returned to a favourite theme — the value of simpler times and the spiritual vacuum created by consumerism — in urging a return to traditional values . |
| 7 | The peoples of these republics — Uzbeks , Kazakhs , Kirgiz , Tajiks and Turkmenis — are the descendants of the great Mongol empires of medieval times and they speak languages that are of Turkic ( or in the case of the Tajiks , Iranian ) origin . |
| 8 | Joyful reunion may make South African history : Albertina Sisulu and Nelson Mandela talked of old times and new strategy , she told John Carlin at her home in Soweto |
| 9 | We talked of old times and what might happen in the future . ’ |
| 10 | There is nothing superficial in comparing works of different times and cultures , so long as one is not making glib suggestions of direct linkages between them . |
| 11 | — A 24 house answering service provides details of opening times and latest information on special exhibitions and forthcoming events . |
| 12 | We can get down on the high street any of these times and it drops us back up here . |
| 13 | She 's going to Russia for a week in February of all times and we want to have something really warm . |
| 14 | And men of unusual genius , Both of ancient times and our own , |
| 15 | In the more seasonal forests , hummingbirds may be migratory , but in all forests they tend to breed at the time when the flowers on which they depend are most abundant , though as with the thrips and the Shorea species , there is some staggering of flowering times and avoidance of competition for pollinators between plants . |
| 16 | Study the non NHS sections of Nursing Times and Nursing Standard and this will give you the most up to date information on current vacancies . |
| 17 | They established that 6 copyholds changed hands a total of 36 times and 21 freeholds changed ownership a total of 118 times . |
| 18 | It 's just that I have such happy pictures in my mind of those times that pipes will always have nice associations for me . |
| 19 | In truth the work exhibits great variety , not only in the gestures and postures of the different figures , but in the composition of each subject , besides which it is very interesting to see the various costumes of those times and certain imitations and observations of Nature . |
| 20 | A day of reflection and appreciation , certainly to the living and the dead members of the famous Three-Ninetieth Group and most certainly to our , our very close and dear friends the British people have shown this sort of involvement and appreciation in memory of , of those times and sacrifices . |
| 21 | It impelled me to request Eliot , for the first time of more times than I care to remember-as it was a chore which I have been obliged to shoulder often enough myself-to act as a referee . |
| 22 | The same basic point holds even if the theory of social representations makes a distinction between the common sense of former times and modern , non-commonsensical thinking . |
| 23 | Despite the message of Modern Times and our images of modern factory work being influenced by our beliefs about what it must be like to work on , for example , the car assembly lines at Detroit or Dagenham , most people , when asked in social science surveys , say that they experience an acceptable level of job satisfaction at work . |
| 24 | This is what enables us in historical study to bridge the gulf between the present and the past , to enter into the experience and awareness which are opened up for us in the thoughts , beliefs , practices and social customs and institutions of other times and other cultures . |
| 25 | Saatchi , the most spectacular collector of recent times and probably the most active collector in British history ( with the exception of King Charles I ) , had bought their work in greater bulk and more intelligently than any other individual or institution . |
| 26 | It was hailed as one of the best heavyweight bouts of recent times and Bowe 's reward was a shot at undisputed champion Evander Holyfield on November 13 . |
| 27 | But also one can see families in these situations creating maximum flexibility by using some members for household-based production and some for different types of waged work in what Wall calls the adaptive family economy : ‘ their economic activities were diversified against the prospect of bad times and to make the most of the good ’ ( 1986 , p. 294 ) . |
| 28 | He was very fond of ancient histories , stories and epics of earlier times and heroes . |
| 29 | It is probably not accidental that the most famous and widely discussed paranoiac of modern psychiatric literature , Schreber , had a father who seems to have approximated rather closely to the divine monarchs of earlier times and certainly practised a regime of child-rearing which was notable not only for its authoritarianism but also for its central concern for the welfare of the child , who was to be protected from harmful influences , bad habits and incorrect posture by rigidly enforced and total parental control , which even included applying iron and leather braces and restraints to the child 's body . |
| 30 | There is an increasing divide between those who need to display their wealth and power during hard times and those who — for humane , aesthetic or intellectual reasons — decide to adopt a look which better mirrors the times we live in . |