Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many issues where a N C V O should be exercising leadership , sometimes a rather difficult concept , and there is no need to apologise for that , for using leadership at the right time , but it has to be a leadership by consent , rather than claimed without authority , and it is in this context that the policy development department in N C V O exists , to help channel voluntary sector concerns to opinion formers , and policy makers , regardless of party politics , regardless of political commitment . |
| 2 | In the future , it might be possible for us to reset our body clock to the new time zone quickly , by taking a pill containing melatonin at the appropriate time of day . |
| 3 | The upward spiral on which film budgets were set suggests that Rank might have had to go on losing money for a long time before hitting on a way to achieve a steady supply of sellable films . |
| 4 | Such a process has been taking place for a long time . |
| 5 | The various experiments taking place at the present time in the use of graded tests ( for example in the Borough of Croydon ) tend to show that this form of examination would , in all kinds of ways , be preferable to the system we have . |
| 6 | Ibrahim Bu Shanna , reaching maturity at a propitious time , had opportunities to achieve success in trade denied to his elder brother , who grew up during the war : the elder brother was a gardener , who lived subordinate in every way except the symbolic to Ibrahim , a successful wholesaler . |
| 7 | consignee not taking or accepting delivery within a reasonable time after the Consignment has been tendered . |
| 8 | consignee not taking or accepting delivery within a reasonable time |
| 9 | Other methods of stimulating volume might include controlling trading hours ( by concentrating liquidity in a particular time frame , as on the metal and cocoa rings ) or by lengthening the hours , to attract business from other time zones . |
| 10 | By contrast the larger class-D animals , living on grasslands where rainfall varies , are less selective and so long as they do not crop the grass too close many animals can cover the same foraging area in a short time . |