Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | Combining the body-building power of mousse , the sculpting ability of gel and the fixing strength of spray , it 's all a girl needs for fabulous hair every time ! |
2 | It was true that the happy-go-lucky dockers , working for a few pennies every time a ship came in , were being watched carefully by Captain Robins on the bridge , but it all seemed rather haphazard , as though I would be lucky if I ever found all my trunks . |
3 | The district officer in India acted on this responsibility every time he filed a report . |
4 | I went to my G P , having avoided her for fifteen years , having getting the old story every time you went well you must go on a diet ! |
5 | If I got on me high horse every time somebody hinted that I was n't like Betty Grable , I would have ridden to hell long before this . ’ |
6 | In some respects the time for making images of landscape from a static viewpoint might seem to be over . |
7 | Fantasy came back from the horsebreaker with the terrifying habit of standing on her hind legs every time someone got on her back . |
8 | Play For Keeps was an ex-racehorse , who always stood on her hind legs every time her rider asked her to halt . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 ’ . |
11 | In English pubs the time between two and three on a Sunday afternoon should perhaps be named ‘ The Ferrers Hour ’ . |
12 | It will then duplicate this process every time you select that JMP-1 patch , either from the front panel or from a pedal . |
13 | However , it is that means that over the last few years every time we have actually debated about budget we recognised that the force had unwillingly and against the judgement of the majority of this council , not necessarily er bounded by political affiliation , we have to be getting down further and further towards the completely inaccurate expanded spending assessment that is assessed as necessary for the needs of this city by the department of the environment . |
14 | They are reported to , they define the policy , and I do n't believe that it 's the intention of the executive committee to come to this meeting every time there 's a change of investment policy . |
15 | After a few weeks the time log sheets are analysed for you by a specialist who duly reports back on how you have been spending your time . |
16 | Companies House , for example , which was established as an agency in October 1988 , had by April 1991 reduced from 25 days to 12 days the time it takes to process documents , against a target reduction to 18 days . |
17 | Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do |
18 | 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 . |
19 | He was repeatedly warned by Richard Baxter , and he would relent for a while , but lapsed into his old ways every time . |
20 | It takes some people a time to realise that the inside facelets are never seen , to see that all the faces can turn and that there are several distinct types of pieces . |
21 | Make old age a time of opportunity . |
22 | While I was preparing this paper the Times Educational Supplement of 5 August 1988 published a comment on the HMI report on secondary education . |
23 | Pedestrians scampered blindly across the road to catch waiting buses , the cars jerked ahead a few yards every time the traffic lights turned to green . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | H. lapillus will usually spend at least a day on each prey item and in some instances the time may be nearer a week . |
26 | Seriously , though , it gives me a fresh pang every time I look … |
27 | The star , not inclined to be bored by his own performance , gave a slightly different interpretation every time , keeping the rest of the cast on its toes . |
28 | ‘ 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 . |
29 | For this reason the time required to pick up the tagged record may be rather more than R/2 . |
30 | 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 . |