Example sentences of "[adj] time it would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 2 | She had reasoned that as she had already mounted the horse and walked around on it the previous day , that this time it would be easy . |
| 3 | During this time it would be kept in vast concrete-lined tanks filled with water , colloquially known as ‘ cooling ponds ’ . |
| 4 | This time it would suit us fine to stay behind the pace — and jump to the front as late as possible . ’ |
| 5 | This time it would be even harder to put him off . |
| 6 | This time it would be at the rate of your pension . |
| 7 | But this time it would be different , this time she was not going to obey any silly rules . |
| 8 | This time it would be to stop herself from freezing , or starving , to death . |
| 9 | This time it would be different . |
| 10 | She would give to it all that had been withheld from her , pour out her infinite capacity to love knowing that for certain this time it would be needed and valued . |
| 11 | In another time it would have been a delight , the twenty-minute trip along the craggy shore , the petrol motor almost purring . |
| 12 | At an ordinary time it would have been almost impossible to enter undetected , but tomorrow morning , when the Lord of Parfois brought home from France his forty knights and their followings , and the entire population of the castle came out to meet them and bring them in , then one more insignificant boy might very well slip unnoticed into the throng and get by the guard at the gate unchallenged . |
| 13 | Closing her eyes , she melted into his embrace , willingly parted her mouth for him — and she truly had n't known , until now , how many ways there were to kiss — or what a gloriously long time it would take to discover them all . |
| 14 | At one time it would have embarrassed her . |
| 15 | But on 20 September the Commission announced that for the first time it would take Britain before the European Court of Justice . |
| 16 | At the same time it would be wise for Geoff Cooke and his team to recognise that the squad should still be supremely fit after the World Cup and ought not to be flogged to death by being put through intensive squad weekends . |
| 17 | Trying out new materials depends on what the artist wants to do and how the medium can be used to advantage ; at the same time it would be foolish to try to fit a new tool exactly into your pattern of work and thus limit it . |
| 18 | In addressing the problem of how British headhunting firms , in competition with the multinational search companies , were able to create and develop a sustained demand for headhunting services , it would be unnecessarily long-winded and tedious to examine every one in detail , yet at the same time it would be sketchy and uninformative to list them all briefly without analysis , and the basic information is given in the Select Directory . |
| 19 | If all the press reports chimed the same note at the same time it would be a brave and stubborn fool who would go against them . |
| 20 | At the same time it would be possible to re-locate within the boundaries of the land owned by the Borough Council to improve drainage and avoid the part which would be affected by the proposed cross-town route . |
| 21 | Stating that the 11th Mayfest would place greater emphasis on quality than quantity , Robson said the programme would strike a balance between new Scottish work and international attractions , while at the same time it would celebrate the talents of the local community . |
| 22 | He left a plate of chocolate biscuits as a peace offering — at any other time it would have been a great treat — and went off with his friends . |
| 23 | ‘ At any other time it would be a pleasure . ’ |
| 24 | In fact , any other time it would probably have terrified her , now she rather welcomed it as a sign that life was normal after all . |
| 25 | I said that the " genetic ruler " of Figure 8 enables us to calculate the minimum time it would take to evolve from one point to another . |
| 26 | Well I think there 's the stretching of it you see , I mean wire w after a certain time it would stretch a bit |
| 27 | At that time it would provide a resting place for six to ten clients a week , and the arrival of each one had the macabre side of me guessing what kind of corpse it was . |
| 28 | By that time it would have been halfway to low water and too late to dispose of the body in the old sewage outfall that night . |
| 29 | Moreover , if Olwyn went to bed at an earlier time it would obviate the Jones ' need to reinforce aspects of her bad behaviour ( for example giving in to tantrums and providing positive attention for hitting ) . |