Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are three bedrooms for visitors all with private bathrooms and individual character — one has an iron-framed antique rose-painted four-poster bed with lace hangings and a Victorian screen , another has oak beams and a closet ( now a shower ) where priests are reputed to have hidden during times of persecution . |
| 2 | The debate about whether unemployment , poverty and deprivation are causally related to crime is perhaps less interesting than the observation which we discussed more fully elsewhere that crime , and in particular , street crime , becomes highlighted during times of economic crisis . |
| 3 | I was generally pressed for time in my few day in Sydney , and did not have the opportunity to explore the graphic potential of the monoline as well as it deserved . |
| 4 | I was generally pressed for time in my few days in Sydney , and did not have the opportunity to explore the graphic potential of the monoline as well s it deserved . |
| 5 | And yet this acute observer would describe the very same people — almost unaware of what she was observing — as physically overworked during times of busy trade , as eating and sleeping too little , as too physically exhausted for intellectual effort , at the mercy of ‘ the many chances of breakdown and failure meaning absence of physical comfort ’ . |
| 6 | If he could have looked through time at his late 1980s counterpart , would he have been scornful of his sunglasses , his insignia of rank , his fat-cat complacent air ? |
| 7 | Their labour histories consist of periods of work interspersed with times of unemployment , underemployment or black-economy jobs . |
| 8 | Circumstances in which overtime may be used should be identified , together with a list of staff who have agreed to be approached in time of need . |
| 9 | At first their mother 's sister had come from time to time but she and Moran had quarrelled . |
| 10 | Although the commitment to religion was stressed from time to time , often in response to the charge of militarism , the CLB always seemed to emphasize matters of social discipline and conformity . |
| 11 | Some members like to come back to Bristol for social events like the Alumni Foundation concerts or the sports reunions which are organised from time to time . |
| 12 | Poised to begin his ‘ real work ’ as a missionary among the wretched of the earth , a holy man at last , he is paralleled in time with Tolstoy . |
| 13 | As to the first question it is clear that views as to the availability and scope of certiorari together with its actual use have varied from time to time . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) For the purposes of this section : ( a ) " special road " and " special road authority " have the same meanings as in the Roads ( Scotland ) Act 1984 and ( b ) " class I " means class 1 in Schedule 3 to the Act , as varied from time to time by any order under section 8 of that Act , but , if that Schedule is amended by such an order so as to add to it a further class of traffic , the order may adapt the reference in this section to traffic of class 1 so as to take account of the additional class . |
| 15 | In addition , it is supplemented from time to time by statements of practice or policy issued by the Panel . |
| 16 | A journal publishing the new material which had been added from time to time to the machine-readable text . |
| 17 | Keen Hunter defends his Abbaye crown and the rain has come in time for John Gosden 's flier . |
| 18 | Transposed in time to medieval days , where two cultures are fighting a losing battle against the undead , he becomes an unwilling hero . |
| 19 | James V ordered that the Crown of Scotland be remodelled in time for him to wear it at the coronation of his second Queen , Mary of Guise-Lorraine , at Holyrood Abbey in February 1540 . |
| 20 | The spirit had been caught from time to time long before and by the same crossing of Italian sweetness with Netherland technique , for instance in Josquin 's ‘ Pange lingua ’ Mass ( see pp. 1767 ) , but in Palestrina and Victoria it is all-pervading , incantatory , the ideal music of mystical faith , totally purged of human emotion ( except occasionally in their motets ) and of human vanity — except the vanity of performers who ( we learn with a shock from Giovanni Bassano 's Motetti , Madrigali el Canzoni Francese di diversi eccellentissimi Auttori … |
| 21 | Fortunately , the snow was cleared and the airport re-opened in time for a Monday morning flight back to London . |
| 22 | I could n't understand how these moments had become frozen in time like that . |
| 23 | The professor will be a member ex officio of the committee , and will be expected from time to time to hold offices such as that of Chairman of the Committee or Director of Graduate Studies , and in due course to assume the duties of professor in charge of the Institute , which are customarily rotated by arrangement . |
| 24 | Vagrant birds of South American origin are reported from time to time on the South Orkney and South Shetland Islands ; their presence indicates repeated possibilities for colonization , but they invariably disappear quickly . |
| 25 | Nicholas , who is living with his family in a tiny flat , hopes the damage will be repaired in time for Christmas . |
| 26 | Jackie had a nasty puncture in practice on the 150-m.p.h. straight and though he was not injured , his Matra was only just repaired in time for the race . |
| 27 | The largely vertical tears , ranging from 20 to 60 cm in length , were successfully repaired in time for the opening of the exhibition . |
| 28 | His Opel Manta had been heavily damaged during the Burmah Rally and could n't be repaired in time for the Mourne Stages . |
| 29 | Never fear , messieurs , we shall have this mystery solved in time of nothing at all . |
| 30 | I met R. D. Case afterwards — he was on the Westminster Gazette at that time — and he told me that Stanford was so drunk that he 'd almost fallen into the gravel Apparently he 'd just been caught in time by George Watson-Forbes , who later wrote a remarkable series of articles in the Daily News on the Home Rule question . ’ |