Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier studies of such palaeomagnetism in France and Japan had shown that iron-rich volcanic rocks , such as basalt , record the magnetic field prevailing at the time they are formed . |
| 2 | It is surely reasonable to maintain that the parties assumed to contract in the light of the scientific knowledge prevailing at the time of delivery . |
| 3 | And I seem to be a social worker most of the time . |
| 4 | They were put on to the French market one at a time with intervals between the sales . |
| 5 | His round face , blue eyes and fair hair , plus a serious mien most of the time , gave one the impression of a junior Cambridge don , and he used his long facile fingers like a Frenchman , when explaining a point . |
| 6 | The base which observes a low profile most of the time , was in the news when the Queen visited in 1978 , it also was central to the Gulf War effort with the stores working overtime to meet demand . |
| 7 | On the other hand , Jim Smith , ex-manager of Birmingham City Football Club , believes that black players make only limited use of intellectual abilities when playing soccer : ‘ They seem to use very little intelligence ; they get by on sheer natural talent most of the time . ’ |
| 8 | But it was good money most of the time and he loved his machine . |
| 9 | Even so , her sister was a barely glimpsed shadow most of the time . |
| 10 | It 's not , it 's a very good approximation most of the time , it 's an awful lot better than erm you know , wh what sort of current do you think 's flowing in that Joe ? |
| 11 | He took the treads up the great staircase two at a time , a demonstration of his boyish energy . |
| 12 | More than any scholar of his generation ( G. Gilbert Murray , q.v. , apart ) he kept Greek literature alive at a time when it had ceased to be a compulsory subject in many schools . |
| 13 | Given the common Caribbean background of family members it is noteworthy that Creole is not used as a common medium of interaction either within or between generations , at least when British-born speakers are present ; however , some speakers may use a mesolectal Creole most of the time without it apparently having or acquiring any special symbolic value . |
| 14 | Perhaps copper was the only metal available at the time . |
| 15 | Fortunately there are many commercially available products , but when this problem first emerged the only treatment available for a time was with sodium thiosulphate. in the days of black and white photography this was readily available but can now be quite difficult to obtain . |
| 16 | Even when the swing is slightly out of tune , the really good golfer has such good feel for the ball and where it ought to go that he can produce a respectable shot most of the time . |
| 17 | That 's accepted as a fair exchange most of the time . |
| 18 | By picking off the documents that form the basis of the customer-supplier relationship one at a time , we can understand what we 're doing and become very effective very quickly . ’ |
| 19 | You 're like a big kid most of the time . |
| 20 | In other words , by insisting on the dominance of the ruling class in the last instance , Poulantzas 's approach retained within it the central tenet of all reductionist instrumental accounts : namely , the state must be functioning to defend and protect the interests of the dominant class all of the time . |
| 21 | I am self employed and rely heavily on the telephone , I think BT and their engineers do a marvellous job most of the time . |
| 22 | A pillar of orthodoxy , he challenged the theological liberalism fashionable at the time . |
| 23 | Mothers and the lower socio-economic single girls used soap and water for facial cleansing most of the time , and less frequently used cotton wool with cleansing cream or cleansing milk . |
| 24 | All biological life thus adapted its metabolism to the level of solar warmth , and became adjusted to the strength of solar radiation prevailing at the time . |
| 25 | These results support the necessity of combined modes of treatment including chemotherapy for the eradication of metastatic disease unsuspected at the time of diagnosis . |
| 26 | I realize I 'm sort of giving a very , very negative impression , and I do n't want to give the suggestion either that being unemployed has to be always bad , that all unemployed people are having a totally horrible time all of the time and are feeling very depressed all of the time — that 's not the case — but I 'm afraid that is more like the average erm situation , the typical situation , than otherwise . |