Example sentences of "be [adj] [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Most people are wrong most of the time , ’ he said , with such firmness that she slid him another look , surprised ; he was strong behind his gentleness and hesitancy , she thought — strong in a way that was n't common . |
| 2 | As long as you 're cheerful most of the time . ’ |
| 3 | Conflict theorists emphasise that most areas of our lives involve us in institutionalised power relationships , and most of us are subordinate most of the time . |
| 4 | As I can remember very little about the rest of the day I presume that I must have been unconscious most of the time . |
| 5 | The days are relentlessly hot and long , and the temporeros are hungry most of the time . |
| 6 | I am happy most of the time |
| 7 | However , he would be right most of the time even if the central dogma is wrong , and protein sequences could be translated into DNA sequences , because most ‘ acquired characters ’ would not involve the synthesis of new kinds of proteins . |
| 8 | It only needed to be true enough of the time . |
| 9 | ‘ I mean , Miss Celia , as I still often think of her , being that young at the time and Mrs Tremayne not wanting her to know , pledging me and my eldest brother , Bert , to secrecy . |
| 10 | It was often buried away among Regency reproduction furniture in shops which were empty most of the time . |
| 11 | If you remember your , from , from your history at school the , the , the first world war the Americans in the historic role of arriving at wars rather late erm came in to the first world war to win it for us erm and after it President Wilson who used to be professor of politics at Princeton , just put that in , er President Wilson created , essentially cos we were all bankrupt at the time as usual er the Americans the only ones who had any money left at the end of the wars , erm President Wilson helped to create the League of Nations , the forerunner of the United Nations but the U S senate refused to ratify the agreement . |
| 12 | All this space , being alone most of the time . ’ |
| 13 | On the other hand , there are many small airstrips in northern Portugal without any navaids , suggesting that VFR flight is possible most of the time ; so perhaps we were unlucky . |
| 14 | Even the haze beneath the cloud lies above the high altitude of about 31 km beneath which the Cytherean atmosphere is clear most of the time . |
| 15 | ‘ The place is full most o' the time , an' since the trade 's picked up at the docks there 's more carmen comin' in all times o' the day while they 're waitin' in the rank . |
| 16 | This is one sixth of the time . |
| 17 | PS Nutty 's got a good pair of legs if they 're any use to you , why do n't you slice your way over here to see them ? do n't think he 'd miss them as he 's legless most of the time anyway . |
| 18 | Some will say ‘ He 's cuddly and can be very sensitive at times ’ or ‘ She is lovable some of the time and is good when we go out ’ . |
| 19 | That 's how many gangs erm that 's two twelfths of the time , so it 's one sixth . |
| 20 | If Susanna Jennens was alone much of the time , there is no reason to doubt that she gave attention to her kitchen maid and that she encouraged her to read and to write poetry . |
| 21 | I thought really done all have n't done all that much , cos I was alone most of the time |
| 22 | I was miserable most of the time , but it would be a towering ingratitude to say that I 'd have done anything else with my life . ’ |