Example sentences of "[adj] of [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The submissions were brief and lucid , economical of Ministerial time , but unaccompanied by any files or background papers from which alternatives could be devised or warning signals detected . |
| 2 | With 2min 47sec remaining of regular time and the Monarchs leading 17–14 , he threw an interception which set up Birmingham 's equalising field goal and sent the game into overtime . |
| 3 | It is highly evocative of that time in everyone 's life when a mortgage meant nothing , music was all and your friends could be as mental as barking hens . |
| 4 | It was clear however , that neither nominal responsibility nor title was indicative of actual time spent on in-service training . |
| 5 | These should be run-of-the-mill problems to the experienced recruitment specialist , but they could cause you a deal of anxiety and frustration , as well as cost you a lost of wasted time and effort . |
| 6 | The acceptance of these conditions as being worthy of medical time an the tendency to resent scarce resources being used on drug addiction and alcoholism have more to do with fear or disgust than whether or not a condition is demonstrably self-induced . |
| 7 | They always say that if they think you 've been in a fight , although it was still short of chucking-out time . |
| 8 | Households in the Coventry area report that they are being subjected to intimidation reminiscent of this time . |
| 9 | Ken , however , was more than once seen to go into his bed and fall fast asleep — undoubtedly the pressure of working in the theatre at night and recording Beyond Our Ken on other mornings proved too much and was reminiscent of another time when he fell asleep . |
| 10 | The effort to deliberately manage culture is necessarily expensive of managerial time . |
| 11 | It is important to understand what it feels like to be truly relaxed and to become aware of those times when we are not . |
| 12 | In the more seasonal forests , hummingbirds may be migratory , but in all forests they tend to breed at the time when the flowers on which they depend are most abundant , though as with the thrips and the Shorea species , there is some staggering of flowering times and avoidance of competition for pollinators between plants . |