Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed so professional was her performance that halfway through the time allotted to us , we found we had finished . |
| 2 | Only after a time did I force my attention to the other problem — Gharr 's demand for the phetam in return for Mala . |
| 3 | Only after a time do the principles on which the family is based — private property and slavery — come into conflict with the community and its commonality ; this occurs only when the family begins to move into the political domain . |
| 4 | In patients with ulcerative colitis who underwent a total ( nine ) or subtotal ( five ) colectomy the percentage of perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody positivity remained unchanged regardless of the time passed after colectomy ( maximum duration of follow up was over 20 years ) . |
| 5 | I suppose that this is a small matter to mention , but allowing for a slight extension to the 24 hours of the second day , the negotiation was completed more or less in the time allotted — a remarkable feat and a testimony to the profound drafting and negotiating skills of many of the member states and many of the governmental teams . |
| 6 | Such patients often differ only in the time taken to reach hospital , and to claim that they differ in any more fundamental way is pure sophistry . |
| 7 | On the subject of delays in responding to minutes , Mr Holden pointed out that speeding up the process would also add to costs , and that some delay arose because reports had to be considered by the Institute as well as by the JMU ; any suggestions on how to cut down on the time involved would be gratefully received . |
| 8 | We have become busier and more efficient and the productive with each passing decade , and this has meant cutting down on the time spent on more mundane activities . |
| 9 | Consultants say most children with cancer have a good chance of recovery , but this new service , costing £750,000 a year , aims to improve treatment and research and cut down on the time spent on the ward . |
| 10 | But even to themselves they pretended that all was well , for the food was good , they were protected , they had nothing to fear but the one fear ; and that struck here and there , never enough at a time to drive them away . |
| 11 | Like other people , Richard Pearson recalled the attraction that simple , conventional family life held for Ken — the bachelor who was so very confirmed in his status was most of the time frightened of anything else . |
| 12 | ‘ We ca n't fix a definite time of death until after the post mortem , but we 're working on the assumption that it was shortly after the time agreed for the rendezvous — midnight . |
| 13 | Of those who laughed then , there are countless numbers who are no longer laughing today , and those who are still laughing now , will perhaps also not be doing it any longer in the time to come . ’ |
| 14 | Her 54.64secs victory was comfortably inside the time set last month by American rival , Sandra Farmer-Patrick . |
| 15 | Her 54.64secs victory was comfortably inside the time set last month by American rival , Sandra Farmer Patrick . |
| 16 | The bare infinitive no longer suffices , however , when its actual spatial support is represented as somehow before the time corresponding to the actualization of the infinitive 's event . |
| 17 | In Coke , Littleton 212b. , Lord Coke says : ‘ where the condition is for payment of £20 , the obligor or feoffor can not at the time appointed pay a lesser sum in satisfaction of the whole , because it is apparent that a lesser sum of money can not be a satisfaction of a greater … |
| 18 | Foaled in 1975 and humbly bred , John Henry changed hands three times before reaching Dot and Sam Rubin 's Dotsam Stables ( Sam Rubin bought the horse unseen over the phone , and did not at the time know that his new purchase was a gelding ) . |
| 19 | I did not at the time understand how to tie the tension to the size of pattern . |
| 20 | We did not at the time think that we were sacrificing sovereignty to join that system . |
| 21 | It is really impossible for someone not technically qualified , or who was not at the time encouraged to understand more than a very limited aspect of its functions , to analyse the workings of the apparatus . |
| 22 | It did not at the time occur to me that their behaviour together had anything to do with what went on between Jean-Claude and me . |
| 23 | Whenever I motor past , I imagine what a joy it must have been once upon a time to see him in action around the commons and village greens , stroking that famous beard and then scattering the pony and traps with his magnificent blows . |
| 24 | and they forget to tell you that once upon a time does n't always have a nice ending , yeah |
| 25 | An authentic Welsh version was , according to Lady Llanover 's Good Cookery ( 1867 ) once upon a time made with ewe 's milk cheese ( Lady Llanover lived in Monmouthshire for about ninety years ) , now presumably obsolete . |
| 26 | She might never have ironed shirts , but she too had once upon a time brought Jacob little surprises , little presents . |
| 27 | Its wines were once upon a time combined in the vat with those of Verzenay and it is from the reputation of that great village that Beaumont-sur-Vesle has wrested its misplaced status . |
| 28 | David Batty used once upon a time to write an agony column in rec.sport.soccer . |
| 29 | War may once upon a time have been a reasonably satisfactory , or at least not utterly unsatisfactory way of securing certain kinds of social change . |
| 30 | After Drew answered questions concisely on the time taken for the application and removal of make-up , a rather over-zealous coroner once more closed the proceedings . |