Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the carpet 's original owner is still unknown , the recipient must have been highly considered , since all the Savonnerie workshops were monopolised by the King during this time for making carpets for the Louvre . |
| 2 | Mary Alston , one of the mainstays of the women 's union in the 1920s , had to care during this time for a sick sister , who was in and out of a nursing home ; much later , in the 1940s , she had to give up work for a while to care for her mother . |
| 3 | It seems unlikely that there is sufficient demand for commercial time for advertising to take over completely from the TV licence system that finances the BBC : at £77 per household ( 1991–2 cost ) , the licence brings in approaching £1500 million , compared with total TV advertising expenditure in 1991 of £1974 million . |
| 4 | A VARIED selection of veteran and vintage aircraft have appeared on the register within the past few months and include the former Warbirds of Great Britain P–63A Kingcobra which has been on rebuild to flying condition at Duxford for some time for The Fighter Collection . |
| 5 | It caps a deal that 's been brewing for some time for the pair to co-develop products this year that let Windows applications run on Unix desktops . |
| 6 | It caps a deal that 's been brewing for some time for the pair to co-develop products this year that enable Windows applications to run under Unix on desktop systems . |
| 7 | I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered . |
| 8 | We have waited for some time for any scheme , let alone one that would justify being called better than the proposals of 1979 . |
| 9 | [ The British ] had pressed for some time for a continuation of a combined staff relationship and had only been convinced that we were serious in rejecting this when we moved their combined staff people out of the Pentagon and moved the standing group [ of Nato ] in . |
| 10 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 11 | Nurses claimed she had waited most of that time for an ambulance to take her to another hospital . |
| 12 | ACCA highlighted measures concerning the private use of company vans as an example. ; They also criticised the lack of adequate time for consultation . |
| 13 | I was confusing those regulations with some others , because I happened to be dealing with the lack of adequate time for the disability working regulations . |
| 14 | To ask the Lord President of the Council what representations he has received about the allocation of parliamentary time for private Members . |
| 15 | I have not received any representations about the allocation of parliamentary time for private Members . |
| 16 | The Opposition may not like it , but does my right hon. Friend believe that there is a case for allowing a small part of parliamentary time for the Leader of the Opposition to be questioned ? |
| 17 | It was left to Professor Dowd to come to their aid in 1870 by publishing a 107-page monograph entitled A System of National Time for Railroads . |
| 18 | Anyway , although I worship the ground Strachan dribbles on , he 's not my favourite player of all time for Leeds . |
| 19 | Er , but in the ordinary course of events er , this afternoon is , is I 'm dedicated to using as many cliches as I possibly can , erm , is , is , you know , that works very well as a way of protecting time for myself . |
| 20 | This entails both a greater awareness of text features and provision of more time for reading . |
| 21 | We have already seen premium rate pay like double time for Sunday working attacked after statutory controls on them were removed in nineteen eighty six . |
| 22 | Coercive drilling produced too many ‘ mindless reciters ’ with little time for other learning . |
| 23 | With little time for the dreamy guitar soundscapes of ‘ the competition ’ , Alex is pessimistic about the current state of independence . |
| 24 | Many schools still have a remedial department or are visited by peripatetic remedial teachers who withdraw children for extra tuition in reading with little time for consultation with school staff . |
| 25 | That said , a week or less , may not give the pursuer all that long to consider his options and leaves the defender with little time for manoeuvre in the event that the Tender is refused . |
| 26 | He was business all the way with little time for us . |
| 27 | The hours she was working , she was left with little time for popping across the corridor for coffee and a chat , let alone for socialising . |
| 28 | She loved them , and she loved the work though it left her with little time for going out and enjoying herself in the evenings . |
| 29 | She knew she had misused her body in Sri Lanka , pushing it to its limits in the tropical heat with inadequate time for rest . |
| 30 | He gets time-and-a-half for six nights a week between 4.30pm and 7.30am with double time for Sundays . |