Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another stone much favoured in early times was turquoise , an opaque phosphate of aluminium which derives its sky-blue colour from traces of copper . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A source of silver much exploited in early times was lead sulphide , most notably galena , containing varying proportions of silver . |
| 5 | The organic substance most highly valued in recent times , pearls , will be treated more effectively alongside precious stones in Chapter 5 . |
| 6 | It was much used in mediaeval times in Britain and , indeed , its use can be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Sheffield already had that working-class character that was to be so marked during Victorian times . |
| 9 | For the congregation , musicians and clergy involved , it provides an incentive to their best efforts which may not be so marked at other times . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | The skew chisel is well known , and though not manufactured in recent times , the skew gouge has been utilised as a modification . |
| 14 | The distinction between virtue and goodness was not understood in modern times . |
| 15 | 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 … ’ |
| 16 | Extinct volcanoes are those that have not erupted in historic time , whereas active volcanoes have been seen to erupt . |
| 17 | What they did incontestably leave were remarkable examples of those hard-wearing memorials which we have already observed from prehistoric times : stones . |
| 18 | Events are normally held at windy times of year ( spring and autumn ) and at venues where there are good surf conditions . |
| 19 | South of the village is an area known locally as ‘ Hills and Holes ’ — deserted and overgrown quarry pits where the coarse limestone called ‘ ragstone ’ was quarried by the Romans and widely used in medieval times . |
| 20 | He added : ‘ Even if it rained between now and October more heavily than it has ever done in recorded time there would still be rivers , such as the Ver in Hertfordshire , that would not get enough water to enable them to flow properly . |
| 21 | Ashi had met him during the height of the oil boom , when the late Shah was pouring the country 's new-found wealth into creating an entire new infrastructure for a land that had hardly changed since biblical times . |
| 22 | The hearth had been very badly damaged in Georgian times and somebody had just dug a pit straight through the middle of it , perhaps for drainage . |
| 23 | The Cambridge University Automobile Club had clearly fallen on hard times , too . |
| 24 | The superbly sited Hellenistic theatres at the citadel of Pergamon and Termessos were only slightly altered in Roman times . |
| 25 | Paradoxically , large-scale drainage and flood-control measures are also needed at other times of the year . |
| 26 | The most highly esteemed in Britain occurs in lumpy masses in the shale beds of the Upper Lias in north-east Yorkshire , but lower grades which were also used in prehistoric times occur in the Lower Lias of Dorset , Somerset , Gloucestershire and Shropshire . |
| 27 | Here , too , the village has gone — probably deserted by Elizabethan times . |
| 28 | The composition of the upper strata has clearly changed since pre-industrial times . |
| 29 | A moorland parish will obviously be larger than a parish in a fertile area that was densely settled in early times ; a church that was an Anglo-Saxon missionary centre will usually have a larger parish than one that was founded later . |
| 30 | This attachment to a strong appearance — reality distinction is most often expressed in modern times as ‘ structuralism , . |