Example sentences of "[adj] in [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | He is now involved in full time pathology research , but with a schedule to suit the heavy demands when away from the books . |
| 32 | My experience at the Fiesta Club had led me to the conclusion that , on average , a ‘ star ’ lasts about three years before fading to a nonentity and I intended to earn as much as possible in that time and retire — unhurt — with enough capital for a business . |
| 33 | The more care you have taken in your application , gathering background information , knowing what questions you want to ask , preparing yourself to counter any awkward questions , ensuring that you are suitably dressed and that you arrive unflustered in good time for your appointment , the less reason you will have to be nervous and the more confident you will feel . |
| 34 | My first , er , but sad duty is simply to say that Sir Kenneth , our President , had hoped to be here , but he 's had er , an operation and er , he is not really quite well enough , so I was asked as a Vice-President , whether I would stand in for him , at the weekend , and er I shall do my best , and erm , I 'm glad to have to opportunity of doing one or two things , but we 'll come to those in due time . |
| 35 | A total of 52% ( 108/209 ) consulted their general practitioner — significantly more men and rather more of the younger sufferers and those in full time work . |
| 36 | Part-time employees have fewer rights than those in full time work and their work is less secure . |
| 37 | Also , personal discounts are given to certain classes of adults , e.g. handicapped people , those in full time education . |
| 38 | In each foreign exchange market the opening spot rates are established by noting the previous day 's exchange rates plus those in earlier time zones . |
| 39 | They were charged that they did contrive , design and plot to murder MOIR NcILCHENICH widow of Ellister for mere avarice and covetousness to attain to her money which they supposed she had lying by her in her house and in pursuance of this plot did upon some day of April 1698 in dead time of night murder her by strangling her with her own belt and thereafter threw her body over a rock into the sea so that the deed was not discovered for some time . |
| 40 | The importance of language is something that we have come to appreciate , more and more in recent time . |
| 41 | It told you something about the standard of the England game when coverage of the Wales game continued until the end , even though we scored 3 more in that time . |
| 42 | But the bread soon turned green in this time of year and there was quite a lot of penicillin about hence . . |
| 43 | This in turn led to the idea that the universe could be finite in imaginary time but without boundaries or singularities . |
| 44 | They beat South Korea 4-3 in extra time to finish with the bronze medal and set off scenes of joyous celebration that were watched by millions on TV back home . |
| 45 | They beat South Korea 4-3 in extra time to finish with the bronze medal and set off scenes of joyous celebration . |
| 46 | Twenty-five years to the day since England beat West Germany 4–2 in extra time at Wembley to win the World Cup for the first time and , so far , only time in a glorious ( etc , etc — the back pages that morning were awash , as they had been for days , with nostalgia and breast-beating and rush-of-blood reminiscence ) footballing history ; the apotheosis of the game , which , according to one writer at the time , ‘ lives like an extra pulse in the people of industrial England . ’ |
| 47 | What if he had become much more ruthless in that time ? |
| 48 | ‘ And marriage itself might have been a useful bit of insurance for Gustav : her relatives or guardians would have been less likely to inform on her husband than on some passing stranger who could get his trousers open in Olympic time . ’ |
| 49 | But Oxford Hawks , beaten 2–0 in extra time at Thames Ditton , might have won through but for Mike Redfern , the Kingstonians ' goalkeeper . |
| 50 | Some played Monopoly ( which is a daft game to try to play in twenty minutes — even my Mum could n't go bankrupt in that time ) and others joined several games together and invented one new one which they called ‘ Scruvial Cluedopolybats ’ . |
| 51 | These include : children under 16 , students under 19 in full time education , women aged 60 and over , men aged 65 and over , expectant mothers and those who have had a child within the past 12 months , whose on income support or family income supplement , war service pensioners and those suffering from a range of specified complaints . |
| 52 | I want to have everything ready in good time . |