Example sentences of "[art] [adj] time in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total time in work could be raised to four days for someone aged between fifteen and sixteen . |
| 2 | X. Ray 's unshowy steadiness was right for the low time in which he newly found himself — he could put the fire out . |
| 3 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
| 4 | The trend towards milder winters is beginning to concern horticulturists. many trees need lengthy cold spells if they are to open their buds at the right time in spring , and research on the Continent confirms that apple trees will be confused by the changing climate . |
| 5 | Yet on the other hand , for the counsellor to be too conscious of saying the right thing at the right time in every situation represents a state of mind that can only hamper the counselling process . |
| 6 | ‘ It is the right time in IBM 's business transformation to identify new leadership , ’ Akers said . |
| 7 | Good advertising communicates the right message to the right people at the right time in a way that will interest or amuse them , but above all make them want to buy the product , service , or even " idea " . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it . |
| 9 | He was fortunate in that he had the right doctor at the right time in the right so hospital |
| 10 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 11 | Our redfaced friend , said the policeman , chose the wrong time in the wrong town to go for a drunken walkabout in the road . |
| 12 | ‘ My husband was a very good poet , as you know , but he was unlucky , one of those people who are always in the wrong place at the wrong time in his career . |
| 13 | I remember listening , fascinated , to her enormous fund of stories of the old times in Jamaica , of my grandad , whom I never knew , and of the ‘ white folks ’ . |
| 14 | He will spend almost the entire time in an isolation cubicle within the unit 's small ward until the new bone marrow becomes effective . |
| 15 | Rhys will spend almost the entire time in an isolation cubicle within the unit 's small ward until the new bone marrow becomes effective . |
| 16 | Where the time is crucial to the offence the prosecution should be in a position to be able to prove the actual times in that locality from observations , should they be so required . |
| 17 | The bad news is that your pass is for today and Friday , and Lil wo n't allow you to make up the lost time in the field . |
| 18 | But he would have preferred to spend the extra time in bed none the less . |
| 19 | MIKE GATTING yesterday warned his England team-mates that the winter tour 's second leg in Sri Lanka will be not be easy after the torrid time in India . |
| 20 | for this idea to work , one has to consider histories that take place in imaginary time , rather than in the real time in which we perceive ourselves as living . |
| 21 | When one goes back to the real time in which we live , however , there will still appear to be singularities . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , Boswell enlightened his readers regarding ‘ The thickness of the walls , the small slaunting windows , and a great iron door at the entrance to the second story as you ascend the stairs , all indicate the rude times in which this castle was erected . ’ |
| 23 | When you have got a 10° bearing change ( or more , if necessary ) , note the elapsed time in seconds , or minutes . |
| 24 | Advances in electronic and micro processors enabling fuel to be delivered in the right quantity and at the optimum time in the combustion process now allow an efficiency to be achieved that Dr Rudolf Diesel could never have dreamed of in 1892 . |
| 25 | Similar displacements occurred and Africans were confined to reserves in Kenya , or to tribal trust lands in Zimbabwe ( Southern Rhodesia ) and at the present time in the Bantustans by the Republic of South Africa . |
| 26 | The various experiments taking place at the present time in the use of graded tests ( for example in the Borough of Croydon ) tend to show that this form of examination would , in all kinds of ways , be preferable to the system we have . |
| 27 | The Cleveland Inquiry ( Secretary of State for Social Services , 1988 ) noted that : ‘ It has been impossible from the evidence provided to the Inquiry to arrive at any consensus or to obtain any reliable figures of the general prevalence of sexual abuse of children in the country or in Clevelend ’ ( p.4 ) and later comments that : ‘ We are strongly of the opinion that great caution should be exercised at the present time in accepting percentages as to the prevalence and incidence of sexual abuse . |
| 28 | Because largely up to the present time in the er , as far as older people are concerned , then the only alternative to the current truth , and direct provider of services , has been the straight private sector . |
| 29 | The extraordinary times in which the German artist Max Beckmann ( 1844–1950 ) lived and worked are reflected on his vibrant canvases to a degree arguably unequalled by his contemporaries . |
| 30 | ‘ If A delivers goods to B on sale or return and B having received them immediately delivers them to C on sale or return , the reasonable time in the one case must , I think , be co-extensive with that in the other case and if that reasonable time elapses and C brings back the goods to B and B takes them back to A , everybody is acting within his rights , and it appears to me that property never passes … if under like circumstances A delivers goods to B and B delivers them to C in each case on sale or return and the reasonable time be , let us say , 14 days , and C after four days sells the goods or elects to buy the goods , I think property will have passed , because C will have done an act which renders it impossible for B to return the goods to A. ’ |