Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 Given the remaining time left open for consultations within the professions and the time needed to enact rule changes , the requirement is unlikely to reach the statute books before 1990 .
2 It is truly remarkable that , given the scant time for leisure , a fine appreciation of music and literature existed in certain isolated pockets of Baldersdale which Hannah was privileged to enjoy .
3 Given the enormous time , more than five minutes , it takes for each page this is very useful otherwise you might conclude that the whole machine has hung .
4 If too many are undertaken the average time to completion will be unacceptably long .
5 ‘ I was fiercely aroused the whole time we were talking .
6 Course checked the whole time by the admiralty .
7 To this must be added the extra time and space demanded in main storage for relatively complex blocking — deblocking routines .
8 Sometimes better ( > ) for passive motion ; they want to be carried the whole time but even then they may not be quietened for long and will demand to be carried by someone else .
9 ‘ They have picked the wrong time to ask , ’ one member says .
10 Can only assume this was designed a long time ago , say roughly 1983 ; surely even Peter Snow must now realise that a Labour landslide is rather more likely than a Tory one .
11 Another super-domestique of great experience is Sean Yates from Sussex , who has won a long time trial stage in the tour .
12 What is more , much of government expenditure is committed a long time in advance and can not easily be cut .
13 If a person who was occupied a considerable time in a search gave an additional fee to the parish clerk , saying , ‘ I wish to make you some compensation for your time , ’ that would be a voluntary payment .
14 If a person who was occupied a considerable time in a search gave an additional fee to the parish clerk , saying , ‘ I wish to make you some compensation for your time , ’ that would be a voluntary payment .
15 Over 900 of them said : ‘ It should have come a long time ago — very few people have done more for charity , public service and their Party than you have ’ .
16 This was resolved a short time later when an unstable product of a short-term incubation of arachidonic acid with cyclo-oxygenase prepared from the vesicular gland of sheep was found to induce platelet aggregation ( Willis & Kuhn , 1973 ) .
17 This 24 hours is only two-thirds of the 36 hours available ; it should be considered a minimum time to allocate to private study .
18 Du n no people have said like that will last a really short time or a really long time , but what 's considered a short time I know what a long time is , a long time is like sort of four months three sort of four months onwards in n it for like people our age , what would a short time be they ?
19 I was then permitted a short time during the lunch interval to study this new material before being cross-examined on it .
20 We were surprised at the continuing estimates of fixed costs , as we would have expected a minimal time investment after the first year of familiarisation , but given that training was identified as the major cost , it may be that this forms the bulk of the continuing cost .
21 A mechanism for periodic review after what is deemed an appropriate time must , then , be built into any plan that is devised .
22 Since her father had not stipulated the exact time when they were to ride , Artemis was dressed and in the stables at first light lest she miss her treat by being late .
23 Even more so than he had done the previous time , I said did n't you hear this about this at the station meeting and he said it had n't been brought up .
24 The reins were in one piece ; no one had noticed the previous time , he 'd been able to make an extra hole and buckle them .
25 We may have met a long time ago at Rotherfield when I was on a weekend outing from school , but I would n't expect you to remember — it was at least 10 years ago and I ca n't imagine I was a memorable schoolgirl !
26 For instance , a workman may be injured by a chip of metal flying off a hammer which had been negligently manufactured a long time before .
27 It was decided a long time ago and the waiting is over . ’
28 Act returned , having done a good time , but not quite good enough , and he knew it .
29 Some conversions that were done a long time ago would not pass today 's stringent building regulations .
30 ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago .
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