Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is a bluff , straight talking , down-to-earth character who has no time for precious notions . |
| 2 | At a philosophical level he had no time for notions of the social contract or human rights ( he famously described the idea of natural rights as ‘ nonsense upon stilts ’ . ) |
| 3 | A very simple thing which works every time and causes little or no disturbance to the fish . |
| 4 | Having risen from Ukrainian coal mines through the party ranks as a tough and brutal Stalinist , once he achieved personal power he wasted no time in opening his mind to the ways of the rest of the world . |
| 5 | Daddy kept rather obviously bestirring himself to mind about my exams and piling up my desk with secondary stuff I 've no time for — I do n't want to read literary criticism yet , almost at all , and I 'm damned sure he does n't smother his clever boys with it . |
| 6 | Estimate the fixed switching angle which minimises the time taken to reach the target . |
| 7 | Suddenly , Fabia experienced the same familiar churning of inner agitation which appeared every time that interview grew imminent . |
| 8 | When migrating to the northern hemisphere they choose a time when the atmospheric pressure is falling , the temperature is rising and the winds are blowing northwards . |
| 9 | It 's an astronomical device based on a twenty-four-hour pattern which tells the time of day , the position of the moon , the constellations of the zodiac . |
| 10 | On the other hand it takes no time at all to load a dishwasher . |
| 11 | The choice of reference , whether it is to be to expert or arbitrator , is in any event usually made at the time of the original contract which precedes the time when the parties know whether they have an " issue to settle " or a " formulated dispute " , and they will be obliged to use whatever procedure was stipulated , unless they make some fresh agreement . |
| 12 | Looking back on that visit , as I sometimes do , I find it difficult to reconcile the warm , charming and amusing hostess who spared the time to entertain us that day with the latter-day basso profundo screecher of the House of Commons and the earnest , ingratiating gusher of numerous television interviews ( performances which make me dream wistfully of the old saw , ‘ In the ideal society politics should be as unobtrusive as drains ’ ) . |