Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flames did help to disperse the fog and also to make the runway more visible , but of course one air field could n't hope to cope with all the 8 Group heavies returning at the same time , and things were pretty chaotic for a few hours . |
| 2 | Commanded by Gen. Satish Nambiar of the Indian army , the force included contingents from 30 countries including for the first time Security Council permanent members France , Russia and the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | This will allow more room in the main section of the fair where a number of innovations will be in evidence next year : a separate section for galleries exhibiting for the first time ; a section for photography and publishers and a more spacious layout of stands and aisles . |
| 4 | THE DEATH OF TWO NORTH WEST INSTITUTIONS HAS CAUSED SADNESS WITH A PIT SHUTTING AND A FAMOUS STORE 'S TILLS RINGING FOR THE LAST TIME |
| 5 | Clearly there is so much ground to be covered , particularly on the engineering and operational sides , when a large transport aircraft is involved that you will need several investigators working at the same time . |
| 6 | Alyssia ignored his remark and concentrated on trying to cut her steak without sending all the vegetables flying at the same time . |
| 7 | Classes help the actor to gain confidence in dealing with many things happening at the same time , and this is an important part of student work . |
| 8 | Yeah well this is , th this is it I mean th th there are often a lot of things happening at the same time er er some of which as you just sort of hinted at are sort of er erm of a psychological er er have a psychological factor in them which all add to it do n't they ? |
| 9 | Two lawnmowers going at the same time the neighbours must be annoyed . |
| 10 | It sounded like twelve machines running at the same time . |
| 11 | Examples included too many groups of activities running at the same time and an emphasis on individual work which could not be sustained in sufficient depth for all the children in the class . |
| 12 | Such as the fact that it is not really possible to have two adjacent needles tucking at the same time in any part of the pattern . |
| 13 | Although there is no physical limit in the number of tucking stitches , in practice most patterns do not have more than 20 or so adjacent needles tucking at the same time . |
| 14 | The Chairman , , welcomed and presented certificates to three newly qualified teachers attending for the first time . |
| 15 | It is fair conjecture that the Chelsea porcelain painters working from live plants sought subjects from the nearby Physic Garden , where they might find many impressive exotics flowering for the first time in this country . |
| 16 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |
| 17 | This was held on 17 November 1933 , women voting for the first time . |
| 18 | Just under half ( 48% ) of women marrying for the first time in 1987 had lived with their husbands prior to marriage compared with 19% of those marrying in the late 1970s and only 7% of those marrying in 1971 . |
| 19 | His unsuccessful serious plays had drawn on the Harold Pinter trick of having two different conversations continuing at the same time , and they were often returned with the comment that he had copied the playwright . |
| 20 | Delegations attending for the first time came from Cambodia , Egypt ( with 250,000 French-speakers ) , Bulgaria ( with 350,000 ) , and Romania ( with 1,100,000 ) . |