Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] time and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The onward march of racism is traced through historical time and institutional space , from some presumed point of origination which defines its essential character , to a present conjuncture which is the summation of its effects . |
| 2 | You 've done more than you thought you 'd ever get away with and so in a sense it 's all gain from here , in fact it 's been all gain for some time and so you ca n't complain and you do n't intend to if fate deserts you now . |
| 3 | The trial was expected to continue for some time and it was widely believed that evidence would be given which would incriminate politicians still active . |
| 4 | I have been teaching machine knitting for some time and often come across pupils who have experienced the same problem . |
| 5 | So I should n't think he 's been driving for some time and |
| 6 | These are not , however , the same kind of truth ; for the first holds for all time and every place , whereas the second has to do with a specific event which as a matter of fact took place at a particular point in history . |
| 7 | First of all , you would have to get there by traveling in imaginary time and not care that your history in real time came to a sticky end . |
| 8 | ‘ She said he was laughing at that time and she just wanted to frighten him . ’ |
| 9 | Now what I want to do is look at what was happening at that time and then try and explain using the determinants of demand what the patterns actually were . |
| 10 | I can stand in front of the screen , I can look at the simulations , I can stop them whenever I want to stop them and look at them , it gives me ideas about how the buildings might have looked at that time and it gives me a whole range of variations as to as to what can be done in terms of their reconstructions . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | After all , they removed it from the custody of its owner and , prima facie , they should bear the responsibility for any damage which occurs between that time and the owner getting it back . |
| 13 | The research has been done for some time and the results have been known for some time , yet still the Government do nothing . |
| 14 | I went reinforced too by all I had been doing for myself and with the knowledge that I felt better than I had felt for some time and that that growth towards well being appeared to be increasing with each day . |
| 15 | By week 4 , you should be feeling quite well , perhaps better than you have felt for some time and , with any luck , you will be a good deal nearer to your target weight . |
| 16 | To the extent that talking and trying hard to talk for less time and have more tasks to do which are to a certain extent self-explanatory , rather than having long involved tasks which two or three get on with and the rest opt out . |
| 17 | As will all reminders of the penalties of war , the true cost of this memorial was met in another time and place , but the financial charge was paid in Canada by ex-members of 431 ( Iroquois ) and 434 ( Bluenose ) Squadrons RCAF , who flew from the airfield from December 1943 until June 1945 . |
| 18 | The Missa Papae Marcelli of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ( C. 1525–1594 ) , then master of the chapel at St. Maria Maggiore at Rome , may well date from this time and have been accepted at once as an embodiment of the Tridentine ideal but there is no evidence that it was the unique exemplar of the legend . |
| 19 | But there is the sad possibility that parent and child stop communicating at this time and never rebuild the relationship on a new and satisfying footing . |
| 20 | The certificate on form R190(SD) must be completed but this can be done at any time and amounts to little more than a claim procedure . |
| 21 | The agents of the Phoenix King could appear at any time and drag away the most reputable people . |
| 22 | and I , I 've felt at that time and since I went on too early . |
| 23 | Clegg has examined the reasons for this in the early 1930s and suggested that employers were not well organized at this time and that there were fewer jobs being lost in the early 1930s than in the early 1920s . |
| 24 | She still keeps in touch with friends made at that time and sends a copy of the Glenpatrick News to the retired Chief Industrial Engineer , Mr Wyffles . |
| 25 | Thus the inconvenience of negotiation can be avoided and a decision to purchase can be made at any time and immediately put into effect . |
| 26 | Bound , hard cover books , laboratory notebooks have been used for some time and have a strong pedigree . |
| 27 | However , dissolution does not occur for some time and the excellent tissue reactions of the hydroxyapatite coatings have a very positive role . |
| 28 | But contraceptive techniques were improving throughout this time and successive marriage cohorts were more likely to use contraception ( table 4.2 ) and use it more effectively than before ( Rowntree and Pierce 1961 , Langford 1976 , Cartwright 1978 , Dunnell 1979 ) . |
| 29 | Here at Cabarave , east London 's black comedy club , the video monitors replaying his classic stage show Raw are turned down — displaced by the sound of jokes told in real time and laughter that 's live , spontaneous , uncanned . |
| 30 | I arrived in good time and was shown into a small living-room where a clothes-horse , hung with baby clothes , stood steaming before an electric fire . |