Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beams of light from this lighthouse turn round completely once every few second The time taken for the beam to turn a full circle is different for every lighthouse . |
| 2 | Reginald Bray , a friend of Masterman 's , would remark on the same development : As Bray organised the arguments of Iris powerful Christian treatise on The Town Child ( 1907 ) around deep shades of pastoral contrast between the serenity of natural phenomena and what he regarded as the unnatural and shallow inconsistency of the irreverent city , he thought that ‘ the most remarkable effect of an urban environment is to be sought in the disappearance of the habit of self-control ’ : The riotous jingo crowds which had accompanied the Ladysmith and Mafeking celebrations during the Boer War had indeed provided one of the most visible manifestations of these perceived alterations among the British people , and observing that ‘ to ‘ Maffick ’ ’ is not really congenial to the British character' The Times ( 30 October 1900 ) had mused upon whether ‘ our national character was changing for the worse ’ . |
| 3 | No further away than this morning The Times printed an advertisement from 209 of the great and the good who are calling for the legalisation of cannabis . |
| 4 | While I was preparing this paper the Times Educational Supplement of 5 August 1988 published a comment on the HMI report on secondary education . |
| 5 | He thought that he had heard the house door close : McAllister must have left for a stroll , or perhaps even a visit up West , and it would be safe for him to leave the surgery where he had been reading Mr H. G. Wells 's scientific romance The Time Machine , and return to the comfort of his armchair . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's about what faith , courage and the judicial system can do , because nobody gave this kid the time of day about this case , ’ he added . |
| 7 | For this reason the time required to pick up the tagged record may be rather more than R/2 . |
| 8 | By producing this Bill , and by everything that they have done , are doing and will do , the Government are endeavouring to give British Coal the time and the means to meet what we perceive as longer-term needs . |
| 9 | During this century the time available for leisure ( defined as time spent not at work ) has increased significantly due to long annual holidays and a change from a six-day to a five-day working week . |
| 10 | I want five storm-troopers to give that girl the time of her life . |
| 11 | On the following day The Times demanded the formation of " Conservative Guards " who were to be drawn from " the whole mass of householders " . |
| 12 | For the shadowed person the time taken for explanation may bring an awareness that some of their routines may be ready for review . |
| 13 | Many readers of our most respected newspaper The Times could not have disagreed more . |
| 14 | As with the centesimal system the time will depend on the acuteness of the symptoms , the chronicity of the complaint and the vitality of the patient but there has always been the question of when to repeat the remedy if the response is insufficient having regard to the severity of the symptoms . |
| 15 | In the absence of the secondary market the time required to raise new capital would be prolonged and the costs involved increased . |
| 16 | In the above case The Times mentioned that ‘ the rapist has been leading a fox-style existence living rough in wooded countryside ’ , but within a few months it was clear , in yet another case , that it is the nickname itself which becomes crucial rather than any particular style of existence . |
| 17 | You can count on the fingers of one hand the times Mr Kinnock has jumped in among the public . |
| 18 | Now , I could count on the thumbs of my right hand the times I 've forgotten myself in a theatre . |
| 19 | It was the very same story the time oor Isa sent for the stilettos very much against my advice as it happens but they were supposed to be real made-in-England leather uppers available in three colourways , aubergine , aqua or avocado well , as she said herself she was expecting green but nothing quite as Irish as they turned out in fact to be . |
| 20 | She just waited until the storm was over , when she pulled a clean handkerchief from her sleeve and handed it to Annunziata , remembering with a tiny moment of irrepressible pleasure the time when David had done the same for her . |
| 21 | In any event the time for sovereigns meeting was long past and in the particular case of Prussia Napoleon III was not being stalked by the King but by Bismarck , who had no intention of allowing his quarry to elude him . |
| 22 | Under a computerised system the time taken to send an applicant a letter and update his/her record should be around 7½ seconds . |
| 23 | Each year the time devoted to it and the importance attached to it , especially on television , seems to increase . |
| 24 | Each year the Time Form company up in Yorkshire produce a publication called ‘ Racehorses of 1990 ’ or whatever year is appropriate . |
| 25 | With VR2 providing minimum resistance the time period is less than one second but at maximum resistance , it is four minutes approximately . |
| 26 | WITH NEW legislation due on the statute books in the New Year the time available to make application for Light Railway Orders is running out . |
| 27 | However , if before that time the supplier issues a tax invoice or receives payment , then to that extent the time of supply ( also known as the ‘ tax point ’ ) is the earlier of when the invoice is issued or payment received ( s 5(1) and ( 10 ) ) . |
| 28 | The next day The Times carried an announcement headed |
| 29 | As I say , if you by the time you get home and then you got to exercise them erm and then you 've got to get back and feed them and then feed yourself and keep warm and think of you know , what you got to wear the next day the time 's gone ! |
| 30 | Cos I when I went , not last time the time before , they only had that thirty nine P and I would n't pay it . |