Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | From that moment they have gone from strength to strength and last year reached the final of the Pilkington Cup only to lose in extra time . |
| 2 | Another stone much favoured in early times was turquoise , an opaque phosphate of aluminium which derives its sky-blue colour from traces of copper . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The room we sat in contained two television sets , two oak sideboards , slightly lower than the ceiling and four clocks all stopped at different times . |
| 5 | Primarily associated with fertility , so highly regarded in primitive times for the continuity of the group , this powerful force was often controlled and restricted by taboos , some of which have survived into modern times as codes of social behaviour , but deeply affected by both prudery and prurience which usually operated together . |
| 6 | A source of silver much exploited in early times was lead sulphide , most notably galena , containing varying proportions of silver . |
| 7 | The organic substance most highly valued in recent times , pearls , will be treated more effectively alongside precious stones in Chapter 5 . |
| 8 | It was much used in mediaeval times in Britain and , indeed , its use can be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 9 | With the help of a fear-stricken band , his Fender 7-string Strat , an 8-string Gibson ‘ piano guitar ’ and his ‘ heavy metal mandolin' ( an instrument with which , he claims , ‘ even a moron can reach the sublime ’ ) , Gregory has assembled a Gothic extravaganza full of fretboard pyrotechnics and in-jokes such as Clapton 's Hideaway solo played in real time at double speed . |
| 10 | Sheffield already had that working-class character that was to be so marked during Victorian times . |
| 11 | For the congregation , musicians and clergy involved , it provides an incentive to their best efforts which may not be so marked at other times . |
| 12 | He is still a child , but old enough to understand about old times ' sake . |
| 13 | He is still a child , but old enough to understand about old times ' sake . |
| 14 | Social commentators noted that this phenomenon was not new : bright colours and rising skirts apparently went with good times whilst body concealment and drab tones accompanied depression . |
| 15 | So liaise in good time with either your own dispatch department or an outside mail order company . |
| 16 | Working hours were thus dictated by tides , and the mill can only operate at favourable times . |
| 17 | Contributing factors include a very dry , hot summer which helps the algae to flourish , along with the residue of pesticides from farms and effluent from factories which , although greatly improved in modern times and now controlled , have left a residue on the loch bottom which still caused problems . |
| 18 | Just gone , we 're obviously working to Italian time in this Italian job because we 've had really five minutes of stoppage time at the end of the first half and I 'm a bit baffled as to why we had it . |
| 19 | An overwhelming body of evidence indicates that Nazareth did not exist in biblical times . |
| 20 | Certainly the aspiration is not limited in modern times to those who have read Emaux et Camées , the French book that Pound respectfully pillaged for Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ; it is to be found in all modern poetries known to me , Russian and Polish as well as French , and ( more faintly ) in British and American . |
| 21 | He does not pursue into modern times his lively thought about the connection between commerce and art ; wisely , perhaps . |
| 22 | Environmental degradation in this region is not confined to pre-independence times ( before 1955 ) as post-independence practices and policies have not fared much better despite considerable financial assistance from the World Bank ( Wallach 1988 ) . |
| 23 | Royal Brass commemorative horse-brasses did not appear until Victorian times and , in any case , the shape can not be described as traditional . |
| 24 | The skew chisel is well known , and though not manufactured in recent times , the skew gouge has been utilised as a modification . |
| 25 | Waiting times in one specialty do not correlate with waiting times in others . |
| 26 | The distinction between virtue and goodness was not understood in modern times . |
| 27 | If the receiver of the gift can not respond in due time with a ‘ counter-gift ’ ( counter gifts can not be given too soon after gifts , because this would imply a logic of calculation which would deplete the symbolic force of the exchange ) then the giver is in a position of creditor and the receiver in one of debtor . |
| 28 | I did not mean to say but perhaps it is better I should , therefore only remark that I will speak on the subject in my next , but do not suffer alarms on my account — I am in better health than I have been for years and I hope to get to Sydney and get comfortably settled in good time … ’ |
| 29 | Extinct volcanoes are those that have not erupted in historic time , whereas active volcanoes have been seen to erupt . |
| 30 | What they did incontestably leave were remarkable examples of those hard-wearing memorials which we have already observed from prehistoric times : stones . |