Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian remembered it , but I did n't , being only a few months old at the time . |
| 2 | But I hope the articles in this issue of the magazine will say to you , as they do to me : you can fool some people some of the time , but you ca n't fool most people for ever . |
| 3 | Then he put his head down , growled and took the last few stairs three at a time . |
| 4 | Or perhaps some architects some of the time . |
| 5 | For , roughly , the following utterance will be true ( 10 ) There is a man on Mars just in case at the time of speaking there is a man on Mars , whereas ( 11 ) will be true just in case at some time prior to the time of speaking ( 10 ) would have been true : ( 11 ) There was a man on Mars There has been considerable philosophical interest in expressions that have this context-dependent property , like demonstratives , first and second person pronouns , and morphemes indicating tense . |
| 6 | B : [ pragmatically interpreted particle ] the milkman came at some time prior to the time of speaking Yet it is clear to native speakers that what would ordinarily be communicated by such an exchange involves considerably more , along the lines of the italicized material in ( 3 ) : ( 3 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time of the present moment , as standardly indicated on a watch , and if so please do so tell me B : No I do n't know the exact time of the present moment , but I can provide some information from which you may be able to deduce the approximate time , namely the milkman has come ( see R. Lakoff , 1973a ; Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 172ff for a discussion of such examples ) . |
| 7 | I have no doubt that we could around that figure but the Chief Officer rightly believes and indeed Her Majesty 's Inspector rightly believes that we are operating too much technology most of the time . |
| 8 | Few of us are paragons of virtue in all these matters all of the time , but we should all be committed to them . |
| 9 | Suppose we expect the relation ( 1 ) to be unc and suppose further that we have the following experimental table : unc Then in view of ( 5 ) our equations for solutions may be written unc Before we proceed to the least squares solution , let us see what results would be obtained if we solved these equations three at a time , with e taken to be zero for each set of three . |
| 10 | Reference resolution accepts these QLFs one at a time , inserts possible referents , and backtracks to another set of referents if the result is deemed implausible . |
| 11 | With powerful cars , no physical obstacles and with the knowledge that legal retribution is unlikely , it is not surprising that the 30 mph limit is held in contempt by many drivers all of the time and abused by nearly all drivers some of the time . |
| 12 | With powerful cars , no physical obstacles and with the knowledge that legal retribution is unlikely , it is not surprising that the 30 mph limit is held in contempt by many drivers all of the time and abused by nearly all drivers some of the time . |
| 13 | As Crocombe ( 1972 ) points out , agricultural practices across this widely-scattered area of small islands were in many ways comparable at the time of the European invasions . |
| 14 | The papingo shoot lasts for two hours with contestants shooting in rotation and taking as many shots each as the time limit allows . |
| 15 | Many factors such as the time and space available in intensive care units will determine how soon such discoveries can be translated into routine procedures for investigating and monitoring patients . |
| 16 | In any case most of the time required will be taken up at the beginning , in the planning and drawing out of the plan on paper , in choosing the plants , and in soil preparation and planting . |
| 17 | They were careful to keep the bull in the same field much of the time but sometimes they would have to move him and occasionally he would get out , so one always had to be wary . |
| 18 | Gorillas , dolphins and whales certainly have a reputation for being peace-loving and harmless to humans but , on the other hand , tigers and polar bears are both well known as potential man-eaters , while elephants can hardly be described as innocuous , even if they prefer to mind their own business most of the time . |
| 19 | When we 're talking about the negligence factor , obviously the insurance does n't cover the negligence of of a repairer , erm any faults inherent at the time of purchase are obviously not our responsibility and I do n't think any reasonable person would expect us to cover that because obviously we 're we 're in insurance , we 're not taking on risks already , we 're taking on a risk of mechanical failure of items after they 're sold , not obviously before they 're sold . |
| 20 | The fact is that men and women of that day inhabited separate worlds ; their social rounds and domestic activities kept them in the society of their own sex much of the time . |
| 21 | The first , and weaker test , would exploit one of the central predictions of the rational expectations hypothesis which we explained in chapter 2 : that forecast errors arise from the inherent unpredictability or stochastic nature of the variable and should exhibit no pattern ; that is , they should not be predictable on the basis of any information available at the time the forecast is made ; and the forecast errors should , on average , be zero . |
| 22 | She led with the chin and got her own way most of the time . |
| 23 | So at home Milton is just one of the others , although he seems to have enough tricks up his sleeve to ensure that he gets his own way most of the time . |
| 24 | Not of course that the comparisons seemed in any way apposite at the time . |
| 25 | No prison could run for long if not for the fact that most prisoners most of the time are prepared simply to cooperate with the staff and ‘ do their bird ’ . |
| 26 | In most cases , additional more specialized tagsets are provided for those wishing to encode aspects of these features in more detail ( see further section 9.4. below ) , but the elements defined in this core are believed to be adequate for most applications most of the time . |
| 27 | It scores especially because most people most of the time do n't drive flat out . |
| 28 | I think most Prisoners would say that the sex problem worried them less than they had expected it to , but that is not to say that it did not worry most people some of the time and some people all the time . |
| 29 | He married twice but lived apart from both wives most of the time . |