Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the turbulent times which still afflict the industry , this is a remarkable achievement . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Given the long times required to charge the larger rods , you can see that after getting a first qualitative result with the smallest rods within a few weeks , a proper quantitative analysis to test the variation with rod diameter and current , and so establish the nature of the effect would take a long time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If too many are undertaken the average time to completion will be unacceptably long . |
| 7 | ‘ I was fiercely aroused the whole time we were talking . |
| 8 | Course checked the whole time by the admiralty . |
| 9 | To this must be added the extra time and space demanded in main storage for relatively complex blocking — deblocking routines . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ They have picked the wrong time to ask , ’ one member says . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I should have done the Financial Times . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I do , I hope but we appreciated Claire and Steven had her more than we had , but you know , we 've had the odd times we 've virtually been across there a month or something like , but but when you have a position where you have five |
| 17 | And the ones who have n't had the bad time might well be suffering because they 're not being allowed the benefits of hormone replacement therapy . |
| 18 | to wonder whether I 'd got the right time . |
| 19 | no , but we now know that , if it , if I 've got the right time , half past twelve 's fine |
| 20 | Her coach , Ian Threadgill , said : ‘ We 've got to be delighted with that without the wind she would easily have got the qualifying time . ’ |
| 21 | Chen [ 17,18,20 ] has measured actinomycin dissociation kinetics from a series of oligonucleotide sequences of the type ATAXGCYTAT and ATAXGCYATA and shown the following time constants CGCT/AGCG , 600 s ; CGCA/TGCG , 1000 s ; CGCG 850 s . |
| 22 | However this difference might not have reflected the additional time taken to draw an inference in the indirect antecedent condition , but rather that there was repetition of a noun in the direct antecedent condition but not in the indirect antecedent condition . |
| 23 | In all this he found time to address meetings for these and many other bodies , hold weekly classes for teaching the youth of his synagogue post-biblical history and related subjects , write articles for the Jewish press ( he founded an Anglo Jewish Journal called The Jewish Times later to be absorbed into the Canadian Jewish Chronicle ) . |
| 24 | If a clock travels from P 1 to P 2 then the time interval it measures between these events is called the proper time Δτ , with . |
| 25 | The recurrent celebration of the martyrs ' feast days catered for the need to make the church 's past present , linked the sacred time of the Christian year into the sacred history of God 's holy people , and so helped to reconcile a triumphant faith which had emerged dominant in society , with the tenacious sense that blessedness lay in being persecuted for his name , and it kept alive a sense that Christ 's kingdom was not of this world . |
| 26 | While some infants may go uncomplaining through the night without feeding by the age of two months they will not have spent the whole time asleep . |
| 27 | Poor Martinho , almost his portly self again , had spent the whole time with at least one gun in his back . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've spent the whole time trying to convince myself it could never work between us , ’ he went on , as though she had n't spoken . |
| 29 | I have never taken the Financial Times , finding it dull , badly written and vulgarly obsessed with money . |
| 30 | Now I have discovered the waiting time at North Riding Infirmary in Middlesbrough is just two weeks . ’ |