Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The views of his Ministerial colleagues , not least the Prime Minister , will be of particular relevance whenever a subject overruns departmental boundaries and the Home Office is competing for Parliamentary time . |
| 2 | Because of the slimness of their bodies it means a shoal of bream , particularly when resting between feeding times , can pack quite tightly together and become a much smaller target than they would present if rotundly shaped . |
| 3 | AS A HEALTHY antidote to our strife-torn , recessionary and under-funded times , we commissioned Kate Garner to photograph the portfolio of comedians in our lead feature [ Laughing Through Hard Times , page 56 ] . |
| 4 | Laughing through hard times |
| 5 | These plans were duly put into effect , and the new building was ready for opening in good time for the celebrations . |
| 6 | First of all , you would have to get there by traveling in imaginary time and not care that your history in real time came to a sticky end . |
| 7 | Other Windows word processors show the text re-aligning in real time , which slows the process down a little . |
| 8 | For information relating to short times , two approaches that have been widely used are dynamic mechanical thermal analysis ( DMTA ) and dielectric thermal analysis ( DETA ) . |
| 9 | H. P. We used to keep an eye on pubs where the sergeant and the constable used to do a month at a time , visiting the cinemas , theatres , and public houses , licensed places , and do some pubs , night after night — just checking things , and at five past ten , you 'd be right in checking they were keeping to closing time . |
| 10 | • time-of-day tariff perhaps with several different charge bands applying to different times of day . |
| 11 | Although much more work needs to be done in this area , the impression gained by surveying a range of industries is one of foreign incursions occurring at different times with price being a significant element at certain stages . |
| 12 | Instead , she suggests introducing devices such as tolls for driving in specific , badly congested areas or for driving at particular times , such as rush hours . |
| 13 | While this is obviously demanding of professional time and effort , it need not be particularly difficult to achieve , and the investment should repay itself with dividends . |
| 14 | ‘ There 's some old Chinese curse about living through interesting times , is n't there ? |
| 15 | Some participants on EA have requested that they carry on after their 12 months course finishes , only to be told they ca n't as that might be using this to avoid looking for full time employment . |
| 16 | Each side in turn went close to dispensing with extra time , Crown hitting a post then Paul Gascoigne having a chip turned on to the bar . |
| 17 | We have been living in exciting times and it has needed a strong hand to keep order in the town , where all the disorderly elements tried to take advantage of the situation . |
| 18 | Now in the scriptures , we 're gon na have a look at a few because the scriptures counsel us time and again , er that we are living in difficult times , we know that and it can become difficult to stay spiritually alert and awake and that 's why constantly throughout the scriptures you 'll find that we 're er counselled and encouraged to stay awake , stay awake and as we sang stand firm and , and grow mighty spirits , the first one is in Romans chapter thirteen . |
| 19 | Yes , we are living in Hard Times ; but no , let us not go gently on to that good ledge . |
| 20 | The most recent has been from the late 1970s through the 1980s , and if we think of those years as one of only four periods of major structural change in nearly two centuries we can appreciate that we have been living in interesting times . |
| 21 | In front of the tall rigid buildings the flying riff-raff of leaves and paper seemed ominous , as though they were escaping in good time . |
| 22 | The work of historians writing in recent times , using evidence available today . |
| 23 | Writing in Imperial times , the poet Juvenal ( c . |
| 24 | They are to be distinguished , therefore , from the green lanes that run for more considerable distances , which are portions of through-roads dating from prehistoric times . |
| 25 | There are many such names in Dutch and Flemish , dating from Napoleonic times . |
| 26 | For it was from a network of tunnels beneath the castle , dating from Napoleonic times , that Admiral Ramsay master-minded the evacuation from Dunkirk . |
| 27 | A scattering of cottages , an idyllically set Tudor Manor house and , a few hundred yards away , a church dating from Norman times ; all this in a peaceful valley of a tributary of the Looe River . |
| 28 | Three interesting features inside are the box pews , the semi-circular altar rail , and the stone lectern dating from Norman times . |
| 29 | The Museum of Leathercraft in Bridge Street houses a nationally important collection of leathergoods dating from Egyptian times up to the present day . |
| 30 | There are a number of castles in Belgium with work dating from Romanesque times . |