Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | These grounds reflect some of the reasons some of the time for compiling records . |
| 2 | The miracle-stories quoted above indicate that this was a coin-using peasant society : every household wanted coins some of the time — notably when it came to Martinmas ( 11 November ) , the customary time for paying dues to landlords ( as it remained in the nineteenth century ) . |
| 3 | He worked for Bonanza some of the time , but mostly you 'd find him lounging around the green tables . |
| 4 | With powerful cars , no physical obstacles and with the knowledge that legal retribution is unlikely , it is not surprising that the 30 mph limit is held in contempt by many drivers all of the time and abused by nearly all drivers some of the time . |
| 5 | You ca n't please all of your readers all of the time . |
| 6 | With powerful cars , no physical obstacles and with the knowledge that legal retribution is unlikely , it is not surprising that the 30 mph limit is held in contempt by many drivers all of the time and abused by nearly all drivers some of the time . |
| 7 | On the other hand , Jim Smith , ex-manager of Birmingham City Football Club , believes that black players make only limited use of intellectual abilities when playing soccer : ‘ They seem to use very little intelligence ; they get by on sheer natural talent most of the time . ’ |
| 8 | Alix spent three months working as an au pair girl — working very hard , for no pay — in a suburb of Paris , bored out of her mind most of the time , but strangely , surprisingly consoled by the youngest member of the large family , a baby , which , unlike its larger siblings , seemed to like her . |
| 9 | Heightening this achromatic gloom was the pall of smoke over Verdun most of the time , which turned the light filtering through it to an ashy grey . |
| 10 | Such ensembles were not merely gathered together for the occasional ballet ; there were , in fact , three standing oboe bands at court , or , more accurately , three ensembles whose members played the oboe much of the time . |
| 11 | They were careful to keep the bull in the same field much of the time but sometimes they would have to move him and occasionally he would get out , so one always had to be wary . |
| 12 | Those on a budget will choose self catering or take-away some of the time , or when eating out will stick to more economic and filling pizza and pasta dishes , or the rosticceria selling tasty spit roast chickens . |
| 13 | Even the poorest of us have some money in our pockets some of the time . |
| 14 | Indeed , it is difficult to see how knowledge would advance if people did not get on with ‘ normal ’ work much of the time . |
| 15 | But that applies to every electron all of the time — and to everything else as well , from quarks to quasars ! |
| 16 | Few of us are paragons of virtue in all these matters all of the time , but we should all be committed to them . |
| 17 | For unattached men , it 's probably more of an issue more of the time . |
| 18 | He explained that Anne needed support too and that if he wanted to stay at home most of the time , then he must consider her welfare and go to the centre sometimes as well . |
| 19 | His father , being a geologist , was away from home most of the time , so that Hank could , to a degree , . |
| 20 | There would be every justification for her to stay at home most of the time and only emerge on joint engagements with her husband . |
| 21 | In my day girls stayed at home most of the time . |
| 22 | His wife , Aunt Ann , was kept heavy with child most of the time , but she lost most of them and they only had the four . |
| 23 | That 's accepted as a fair exchange most of the time . |
| 24 | I ca n't bear to look at myself in a mirror : I know I look a mess most of the time . |
| 25 | Then she could actually see what was going on in the family , which was that her mother was servicing her father , who just looked out of the window most of the time , psychically speaking , while the siblings got on with their rivalry . |
| 26 | ‘ When I was 12 I won the one length freestyle , backstroke and breaststroke events at the local schools gala , but after that I concentrated on the backstroke most of the time . ’ |
| 27 | He thought she was rather a strange girl ; more like a boy most of the time , but there were parts about her he really liked . |
| 28 | In fact she did n't demand anything , apart from a dressing-room on the ground floor because she was having great difficulty with her back at the time , and being in pain , was using a wheelchair most of the time . |
| 29 | it means that er they 're in a wheelchair most of the time , but they 're , for the , for the activity they 're , they 're standing |
| 30 | The Al Bustan in the capital area , said to be the most beautiful hotel in the world , was originally designed as a palace and conference centre for the leaders of the Gulf States but is open to visitors most of the time . |