Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument for seasonally adjusting monthly unemployment figures is that only then can the observer tell whether a given monthly increase in unemployment is the normal variation for that time of year or an unusual rise which policy-makers should be concerned about . |
| 2 | Indeed , if his ( undated ) grant to the abbey of Fécamp ( S 949 ) is genuine , one might suppose that he visited the Norman coast at some time , and his generosity to a foundation which had been particularly favoured by the ducal family ( in 1001 Richard II invited the celebrated monastic reformer William of Dijon to be its abbot ) seems most likely to mean that his relations with them were still satisfactory . |
| 3 | ( b ) Discover the main changes in the European economy of this time . |
| 4 | We asked 422 patients who had used the combined pill at some time about their knowledge of appropriate secondary methods of contraception to be used in the event of forgotten pills , severe vomiting , severe diarrhoea , and concurrent antibiotic treatment . |
| 5 | ‘ We all agreed after the dinner that George was obviously under the influence of drink , but that does not excuse saying that the greatest footballer of all time ‘ was n't bad for a nigger ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ I have always felt that it is a crying shame that the works of possibly the greatest writer of all time , William Shakespeare , have — purely for examination purposes — been pushed down the throats of school children . |
| 7 | The greatest Warlord of all time , Gorbad Ironclaw , leads a huge Waaagh into the Empire . |
| 8 | It 's shooting a film for American television based on ’ Heart of Darkness ’ — the Joseph Conrad novel that 's been described as the greatest story of all time . |
| 9 | Now here I was in the greatest race of all time , with four men under ten seconds . |
| 10 | He is the greatest athlete of all time in my book . ’ |
| 11 | But they say he 's the greatest photographer of all time . ’ |
| 12 | What is the greatest car of all time ? |
| 13 | JOE MONTANA , possibly the greatest quarterback of all time , is back . |
| 14 | Next week I shall be talking with Tony Nuttall about Shakespeare and the reasons why he 's still regarded by many people as the greatest playwright of all time . |
| 15 | No Sally 's new at the job , we 've been working at this for for on on the technical front for some time , now let's just sit down and and work out what we 're gon na do . |
| 16 | Some US congressmen believe that the Japanese are secretly developing test-tube fusion technology and that the US is already losing the race for the economic bonanza of all time . |
| 17 | The expression ‘ cased in the unfeeling armour of old time ’ exactly represents the impression Wordsworth made on certain observers at a later date ( see Chapter I , p. 42 ) . |
| 18 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 19 | The cool and neutral intellectual who had observed the working class in Spare Time matured during the war . |
| 20 | What did erm how did you find the Labour Party at that time compares with the Labour Party now ? |
| 21 | Anchovies — an important source of protein for animal feed — also mysteriously disappeared from the Peruvian coast around this time . |
| 22 | On Tuesday evening , the family heard that a housing association had struck a deal with a local farmer to buy a house which will be refurbished , extended and rented to the family , but a last minute call yesterday morning to the Scottish Office for more time to allow the family to move was turned down . |
| 23 | The rate on the free market around this time fluctuated between $1.00=2.6 cruzados and $1.00=3.2 cruzados . |
| 24 | There were two elements in the English Department at that time . |
| 25 | You may see a guy wandering in and out groups and that 's a guy called Geoff who works for the British National Corpus and these are the people who are trying to have or produce ten million words of the written word and a hundred million erm spoken words , which is a corpus whereby , er come and look at the English language at some time in the future and identify and listen to some of your and your dialects and what you said so make sure you have lots of input as we 've got quite a broad spectrum of different dialects today but he 'll be wandering in and out er throughout today . |
| 26 | Holding office in the Association was an important indicator of status in the scientific community by this time . |
| 27 | Besides , I do n't fancy going fifty miles the wrong way at this time of night . ’ |
| 28 | They were in the top cupboard at one time yes . |
| 29 | By insisting on the arbitrariness and narrowness of gender roles , and that they are socially ascribed rather than naturally given , Orton expresses a central motif in the sexual politics of that time . |
| 30 | He watched the empty darkness for some time afterwards . |