Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then you tell the story of the murder and the subsequent investigation , adroitly working in the fact that there was a red light shining at the vital time and place , using one of the ways of tricking your reader into " noticing and not noticing " this that we looked at in the previous chapter , and you also harp like mad on the impossibility of a person in a black dress or suit having been on hand at the moment the murder was committed . |
| 2 | He had been crouched on the first-floor landing for a long time , peering through the banister rails to the kitchen at the end of the lower corridor , listening to the ebb and flow of their conversation . |
| 3 | A statement of an objective must always refer to some publicly observable outcome occurring within a certain time frame . |
| 4 | An electric shock US , for instance , is an event occurring at a particular time , with a certain duration and intensity , that impinges on a particular part of the animal , and so on . |
| 5 | They do this by collecting premiums or contributions from large numbers of people in return for an agreement to compensate the policy-holder in the event of a specified event occurring within a specified time . |
| 6 | It is important to realize then that our symptoms , produced in response to stress , are not solely based upon the stress occurring at the given time , but upon all the stress accumulated in our stress glass over time . |
| 7 | In evaluating credit scoring at the present time , we had to consider three aspects : |
| 8 | The product is also claimed to have enhanced diagnostic capabilities to manage enterprise-wide networks as well as an Integrated Boot Device , which uses Flash memory , a floppy drive for loading software upgrades and for data collection , and SNMP time-stamped event logging with a real time clock . |
| 9 | I stood outside his door listening for a long time ; there was n't a sound . |
| 10 | The win by Peter Crispe and navigator Tony Poole was an exceptionally popular one , the pair having been stalwarts of air racing for a long time . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd like to know how much elation black leadership feels for this occasion , if any , of murder by mob , murder by trial , murder by jury , ’ Reed stated , his voice rising for the only time . |
| 12 | By nationalizing for a specific period — length depending upon the expected time needed for rehabilitation and the severity of the offence — and placing public-appointed directors to the board with a duty to inform the public and advise the remaining corporate directors , the chances of recidivating could be reduced considerably . |
| 13 | When they had eaten their meal of wheat ro is and milk they kept the fire going for a long time . |