Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scholars in this field had for some time been engaged in a debate over the importance of acquired and inherited personality traits in behaviour . |
| 2 | Some views expressed at this time were not dissimilar to those of the ‘ Li Yi Zhe ’ document , whose authors were released in February 1979 . |
| 3 | If we assume that , in the transition region , the restrictions to motion still present in the sample , allow only a few segments to move in some time interval , say 10 s , then considerably fewer will have moved if the observation time is less than 10 s . |
| 4 | Towards the mid-1970s Thai boxing was introduced into the United States , where it has become very popular , partly because it resembles another art introduced at that time , called full-contact karate . |
| 5 | This student had at one time worked in catering until her love for learning foreign languages prompted her to tackle French and Spanish as a mature student . |
| 6 | This train ran for some time , but was not considered entirely successful . |
| 7 | Few people believed at that time that a bill would be obtained to make a line down Corvedale . |
| 8 | Few people travelled at that time who did n't have to . |
| 9 | It seems to me that all of us in this chamber have at one time or another , wanted to actually spend money erm it comes programme of committees , I do n't think it 's behoved upon me at the moment to transgress on what programme committees are actually er but to predict exactly where they will want their expenditure to go but I do know is that there is a huge backlog of member generated aspirations in terms of the environmental improvements , traffic calming facilities , particulary which I suspect were actually generated mildly in excess of the figures which we have before us tonight which is why we clearly leave open that further bids against capital can be made in the course of the next three years , erm which will be assessed against the overall financial position of the council and I think the council much more than that . |
| 10 | With some reason did another Frenchman remark at this time that Britain had become no more than a colony of the American film industry . |
| 11 | If another image occurs during this time , we can not perceive any interval between the first and second images and they appear continuous . |
| 12 | At this point the coral was extremely stressed , in fact large parts of this colony died at that time . |
| 13 | Needless to say the Herald proved itself admirably with a few lessons learned for next time . |
| 14 | Such arrangements have for some time been permitted so long as clients are fully informed of the nature of the company and the profits go to the firm . |
| 15 | No such guide existed at that time ; but summarisation of legal matters in any comprehensive yet comprehensible form is a difficult and risky business , so that the task was not one which the writer regarded with relish . |
| 16 | Do you know how much flowers cost at this time of the year ? |
| 17 | All of you who read these words have at some time in your youth dreamt the biggest dreams . |
| 18 | Where similar finds are consistently found in layers dated to the same period of time , it can be assumed that these finds belong to that time period . |
| 19 | According to Eknomska politika ( 20 July 1987 ) , these agreements covered at that time about half of the value of exports to the convertible currency area , so that only about half of these exports were generating an inflow of foreign exchange . |
| 20 | Taking the donor agencies as a whole , about 9,000 evaluations of individual projects have been made since 1970 , probably accounting for about 12 per cent of all projects launched since that time . |
| 21 | Many schools preferred at that time to have two paymasters rather than one , but in 1926 they were obliged to choose : those which thereafter received grants from the Board of Education in London , and not through the Local Education Authority , were reasonably enough known as direct-grant schools . |
| 22 | The invasion scare passed and the Troop went north to do independent training , as all Troops did at that time . |
| 23 | It is not surprising that many fish breed at this time , although cooler , fresh water is part of the trigger . |
| 24 | Tallying up their invoices , many participants agreed with first time exhibitor Peter Findlay who , when asked if he would ‘ do ’ The Art Show again next year , replied , ‘ I 'd do it again next month ’ . |
| 25 | There are many manuscripts dating from that time , and a few from the earlier period , starting 1140 . |
| 26 | For many people living through that time , 1968 was the unforgivable pin that pricked the bubble : and with the deflation of the great illusion that the 1960s was a perpetual party came the realisation of the cost . |
| 27 | There were controversies about various forms of Church Government and many sects flourished at this time of religious toleration . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've 27 turned out at home and I could bring any of them in for all weather racing at any time . |
| 29 | Use a variety and put it in more than one spot , if you have space , to allow more birds to feed at one time . |
| 30 | It is up to 50 feet high , overhanging throughout and wide enough to allow 15 or more teams to operate at one time . |