Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Allen : Will the Hon. Gentleman consider using some of the time of those operators for the installation of a fax machine which could be used collectively by right Hon. and Hon. Members rather than duplicating many times a facility that could be provided and serviced by one additional member of staff , or even by current members of stall ? |
| 2 | They have occupied much of the time of the higher courts but are on the margins of land law , which traditionally focuses on the market-place and the importance of documentation as the root of title . |
| 3 | The interviewer is Peter Hayter , an owlish Friar Tuck figure who seems to be troubled by itching much of the time and who uses ‘ I mean ’ as frequently as commas . |
| 4 | Citizens in those countries retained allegiance to the political process , content most of the time to leave politics to elites , while believing that they could influence the outcome of both local and national decision-making if necessary . |
| 5 | They want most of the time to feel confident about what they are tackling , even if they make a few mistakes , and basically optimistic about their own future and the future of education . |
| 6 | Cooking up wonderfully complicated meals is fine for special occasions , but what most of us want most of the time are great ideas for quick meals that taste good without the fuss . |
| 7 | From Llewellyn-Jones ' ( 1981a , b ) findings , there must be a question as to whether BSL interpreting is actually occurring most of the time . |
| 8 | Existing policies keep most people occupied most of the time . |
| 9 | Frank was withdrawn much of the time , often sitting for hours with his blindfold down . |
| 10 | Rather , I settle for a balanced , rounded style of dressing most of the time , more Dougie Heywood than Tommy Nutter . |
| 11 | We were n't , I now realise by doing the sums , badly off My father paid the rent , all the bills , gave us our pocket money , and a fixed sum of f7 a week housekeeping money quite a lot in the late 1950s — went on being handed over every Friday until his death , even when estrangement was obvious , and he was living most of the time with someone else . |
| 12 | Now , the government has shifted the focus of curriculum planning from availability ( the options system ) to entitlement , and has unwittingly ensured ( by filling most of the time available with the statutory curriculum ) that the dimensions , skills and themes of this entitlement can be met most easily inside the foundation subjects , and not outside them . |
| 13 | Even in the situations where it is appropriate , Creole will only be used some of the time — in fact , a very small proportion of the time , if my informants and their families are typical . |
| 14 | Until 1939 internal dissension remained characteristic of the Labour Party , with agitations against Fascism and the National Government 's foreign policy occupying much of the time and energy of the active Party member . |
| 15 | Jessica 's father , like most men in his position in the Province , was watched much of the time , kept an eye on , lightly guarded . |
| 16 | Quite clearly , then , if a child is brought up so that it is exposed constantly to a critical parent , she or he may spend much of the time being an adapted child . |
| 17 | These results confirm those of the time series test in which high and low beta portfolios earned less than expected and more than expected respectively . |
| 18 | The odds are that the engine of public policy change will , in fact , make few significant journeys and will spend most of the time hissing and panting in a siding . |
| 19 | We 'll spend most of the time in bed . ’ |
| 20 | Although he has yet to win since his comeback , The Committee 's performances have been improving most of the time . |
| 21 | It rained most of the time , and when we were kicked out of the youth hostel for the day we walked around and sat in bus shelters . |
| 22 | Weather did not deter them ; it rained most of the time and they traversed ground that had little or no trace of thoroughfare . |
| 23 | After previous days ' lovely weather , disappointed that visibility was poor and it rained most of the time . |
| 24 | This is his sixteenth over , two for seventeen with nine maidens so far , bowling from the far end , the nursery end with a cluster of fielders , you 've got a silly point and a short leg and a slip and he 's got er , at the moment four men on the leg side as he 's had most of the time and five on the off , and now a slight adjustment , we 're gon na have an extra one around the batsman . |
| 25 | ‘ But I do n't know where I 'm heading most of the time and there just was n't time to be together . |
| 26 | Although the school holidays are difficult , her husband does shift work and could arrange his shifts to cover most of the time she is at work . |
| 27 | Though Marje believed that Phillip was living a bachelor life at a London hotel between trysts with her , he spent some of the time , at least , with Meli in her apartment over a hairdresser 's shop and a prostitute 's flat in London 's Kensington . |
| 28 | And , in the course of that hunt , I spent some of the time in … the place where Kokos comes from . ’ |
| 29 | He suffers much of the time with sore feet ( furunculosis ) which unfortunately makes him lame . |
| 30 | Maggie had so little to do during the day that she spent much of the time chatting and gossiping with Rose . |