Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been restored but not altered a great deal in modern times . |
| 2 | Where a summons has been served in accordance with Ord 7 , r 10(4) ( b ) by delivering the summons to a person not under sixteen years of age , if it is doubtful from the endorsement whether the summons will come to the knowledge of the defendant in sufficient time , notice of doubtful service ( N 221 ) is sent by the court . |
| 3 | Off the field problems which have bedevilled the club in recent times have been buried . |
| 4 | Lou Macari signed a three year contract with Celtic this afternoon then told Scotland Today he would walk away if he could n't bring success to the club in that time . |
| 5 | Perhaps Zvi could put his own photograph in next time — an early one . |
| 6 | If you book through a Travel Agent , you should ensure that you pay the agent in sufficient time to allow payment to reach Cosmos by the due date . |
| 7 | The diagram above is a herb garden containing a collection of herbs grown in Britain and on the Continent in medieval times ; they have a variety of uses , and some of them fulfil several functions . |
| 8 | Sometimes it helps if the person who is holding the horse , pats the horse on the neck in exact time to the farrier hammering on its foot — especially if it is the actual hammering that worries the horse the most . |
| 9 | Either there has been a real fading , or ( more probably ) there has been an error in recording or interpretation , though it is true that Megrez has been suspected of slight variability in modern times . |
| 10 | I was only thinking of the family — they would wish to bring the priest in good time . ’ |
| 11 | We got to the 18th and there 's Greg Norman and Jack Nicklaus , who took five hours to get round ; we 'd done it in less than four , had a bit of lunch and more practice in that time ! |
| 12 | None the less , it seems likely that the course of studies was so arranged that the students would pass through the same grades of medreses as those in which they would later teach : such would in any case seem to have been the practice in later times . |
| 13 | The practice in medieval times was to house all of the grain crops in the barn , using ricks as a last resort only when the barns were full . |
| 14 | He had found , over the years , it was always better to play a new piece in several times before ringing the nightly changes . |
| 15 | Modern methods of curtailing debate are largely a response to attempts by Irish Nationalists , seeking home rule in Victorian times , to abuse the rights of the opposition to oppose . |
| 16 | One day America may find itself facing the last generation of its own weapons , which it had sold to its enemy in friendlier times . |
| 17 | In his An Inquiry into the Causes of the Progressive Depreciation of Agricultural Labour in Modern Times ( 1820 ) and A Statement of the Consequences Likely to Ensue from our Growing Excess of Population ( 1830 ) Barton argued that only where land was cheap and plentiful would economic growth be maximized and accordingly favoured emigration schemes and colonization of Canada . |
| 18 | BOSS have set up the ME-6 to work in two different ways : it can be left to recall programmed patches or , by using the manual programming button , be set to operate like a series of pedals with each footswitch activating an effect in real time . |
| 19 | ‘ That one scene took up a whole morning and I did think to myself I could have written half a script in that time . |
| 20 | But there had been no overall review in recent times of the problem of crime and criminals by an independent and authoritative body . |
| 21 | The ‘ dig ’ carried out in 1984 brought to light what could have been the main centre of administration in Anglo-Saxon times and could well have been the site for the ancient ‘ Dic Ring ’ from which Dickering got its name . |
| 22 | The occasional aberration in judgment aside , the curbing regulation has been not merely a success but possibly the finest piece of administration in modern times . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | The study of religion in the context of local history will be influenced by such things as ‘ Was the area dominated by a religious institution in medieval times ? ’ |
| 25 | An advantage of this type of parser is that it performs recognition in linear time . |
| 26 | Good for Annabel , who had the sense to quit the circuit in good time and launch a successful new career . |
| 27 | Tied cottages , indeed , performed much the same function as the closed village in Victorian times , by enabling farmers to ensure that their expenditure on housing was limited as far as possible to guaranteeing their own labour requirements . |
| 28 | Most of these , too , developed along existing paths , the paths that ran from village to village in Saxon times , though here and there they may have called for a new piece to complete the chain of paths . |
| 29 | Since shareholders thus take greater risks than banks , their return in good times is higher . |
| 30 | Since shareholders thus take greater risks than banks , their return in good times is higher . |