Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should you wish to paint hardwood for the first time , it will be necessary to coat it with an aluminium primer . |
| 2 | It is common for pupils to grow in height as much as an inch and a half ; they appear to lose weight at the same time . |
| 3 | In June 1984 , small businesses were also required to provide security for the first time under the scheme , which obviously deterred many potential entrepreneurs and damaged the usefulness of the scheme . |
| 4 | In his address to the congress , the chair of the Russian Supreme Soviet , Ruslan Khasbulatov , expressed support for the continued existence of collective and state-owned farms as the most effective way to provide food at the present time . |
| 5 | Drink up : Euro Disney has begun to serve alcohol for the first time at four of its restaurants as it seeks to stem heavy losses from weak attendance . |
| 6 | Section 1 describes how to install LIFESPAN for the first time on your VAX , |
| 7 | Steve was doing OK but he was finding it hard to play guitar at the same time as singing . |
| 8 | ‘ For an actor of his calibre , ’ recalls Gerald Thomas , ‘ and he was of a very high calibre indeed , he had the inability to play dialogue at the same time as he was handling props . |
| 9 | The message which Balfour sent was that , ‘ He is also of the opinion that it will be a serious danger if the Socialist Party is allowed to assume office at the present time and he thinks every means ought to be taken to avert the Parliamentary defeat which would bring them into office in your place . |
| 10 | Personnel of the Operation Life-Line Sudan programme had on March 31 been forced by fighting to leave Bor for the second time in two weeks , although some 6,000 malnourished children were being fed from that distribution point . |
| 11 | Once a man knows of his right it is more difficult to say that it was not reasonably practicable to give notice within a reasonable time . |
| 12 | This is in spite of an impressive set of measures , associated with the Integrated Rural Development Programme , to reduce poverty at the same time as encouraging economic development . |
| 13 | The third weakness is that the method adopted to conquer inflation for the second time — raising the interest rate — only works by inflicting pain on borrowers , both corporate and domestic . |
| 14 | You see when committees are meeting at two o'clock usually have a much shorter agenda than this committee discussion but to enable to this committee and to do its job properly , I would think we 'd be looking where possible to be able to discuss items properly and to get start at a reasonable time like we do . |
| 15 | The child who uses goed or comed is guilty of over-generalisation , while in sign the use of repetition to convey occurrence over a long time would be appropriate in WAIT-WAIT-WAIT , meaning ‘ wait for ages ’ but not in KEEP-KEEP-KEEP , where it would probably mean to ‘ keep three ’ things rather than to ‘ keep over time ’ . |
| 16 | ( 5 ) Where under a contract of sale the transfer of the property in the goods is to take place at a future time or subject to some condition later to be fulfilled the contract is called an agreement to sell . |
| 17 | Most Greek religious festivals occurred at or near full moon , but since they were associated with agricultural activities they had to take place at the appropriate times of the year . |
| 18 | For example , a 30 second live report which is due to take place at the same time as Martina Navratilova is about to serve for the match can be both a reporter 's dream and a producer 's nightmare . |
| 19 | And it is that grouping , the J R P , that have got agreement between the Ethiopian government and the Tigre People 's Liberation Front to move food for the first time from the Ethiopian government areas into the areas controlled by the Tigre People 's Liberation Front . |
| 20 | A new defence doctrine began to take shape at the same time : it was intended to be non-offensive in character and to give other states no reason to fear for their security , notwithstanding the immense size of Soviet armed forces and the perceptions of those forces that were entertained particularly in Europe . |
| 21 | By 1924 the party was recognisably the party of today ( McKibbin 1974 p 236 ) , and in a position to take power for the first time . |
| 22 | A landscape of open moorland , for example , will revert to scrub woodland in a short time if grazing and heather burning are restricted . |
| 23 | Although we can quickly reset our watches , our body clock takes many days to adjust , and so instructs the pineal to produce melatonin at the wrong time of day , causing jet-lag . |
| 24 | This enabled some major figures to show work for the first time . |
| 25 | Northern Ireland has never won the Home Internationals before but team manager Jim McGrory feels that this year 's selection is good enough to achieve success for the first time . |