Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , some clients may prefer a structured day with routine care , which everyone receives given at set times , very probably by a succession of nurses . |
| 2 | Collapse breccias , however , are not related to any particular facies and potential reservoirs resulting from this process are most likely to be found around structural highs that became exposed at various times since , the Zechstein . |
| 3 | Olazabal 's compatriot Sevvy Ballesteros , who has fallen upon hard times after 68 tournament victories worldwide , said : ‘ The US Open is not my type of golf course , but I try to do my best and see what happens . ’ |
| 4 | The importance of these statutory provisions appears to me to be that Parliament has considered at various times and in various contexts the need for recovery of imposts paid but not due and has legislated in a manner which suggests that no such general principle as the Woolwich contends for was thought to be in existence . |
| 5 | In order to do so we must go back to the very beginning of society , explain the original trauma and then consider what consequences it has had for modern times ; for , as we shall see in a later chapter , an inability to accept the truth about ourselves and our societies is probably the most dangerous threat to the successful solution of our present cultural crisis and is certainly the chief obstacle to progress in the sciences of man . |
| 6 | Thus the problem of splitting a program between two storage media , one fast but small and the other large but slow , has reappeared at different times and at different storage levels . |
| 7 | Now that he has retired from full time teaching , Guisborough-based John Brelstaff is able to devote more of his time to painting and has been able to resume the work left off when he left the Slade in the mid-Fifties . |
| 8 | Indeed , it has seemed of recent times , that all England needed to do to win in Dublin was just to turn up . |
| 9 | AN EPIC battle over a five-a-side complex has gone into extra time after protestors lodged 1,000 letters of objection . |
| 10 | I mean the one thing that has happened in recent times , and I do n't like prophecies so , I do n't wish to be a part of one , let's be clear about that , I 'm doing this as an analyst . |
| 11 | The unusual degree of relative autonomy of the Spanish state has continued into recent times . |
| 12 | The early history of the trade union movement , in particular , is one of intimidation and repression by ruling groups ranging from imprisonment and deportation to the use of hired gunmen and military forces in attempts to prevent the formation of trade unions or to break strikes ; and in some countries — notably in the USA — the use of violence , though usually diminishing , has continued until recent times . |
| 13 | The foundations of Minoan houses are still visible on the beach and under the water at Amnisos , showing that this section of coast has subsided since Minoan times . |
| 14 | The idea that the polarity of the Earth 's magnetic field has reversed through geological time was proposed early this century by Brunhes in France and Matuyama in Japan . |
| 15 | The venatio has survived into modern times in different forms . |
| 16 | ‘ I think the vicar 's status has changed since Victorian times but not in recent years . |
| 17 | In the last chapter we looked at how the social institution of marriage has changed at different times in history . |
| 18 | As was said by Staughton LJ in United Bank of Kuwait Ltd v Hammond [ 1988 ] 1 WLR 1051 , advising that older judicial authorities should be treated with a degree of caution : the work that solicitors do can be expected to have changed since 1888 ; it has changed in recent times and is changing now . |
| 19 | It was such an idea of modularity that Minsky intended in the quoted passage above , and he has suggested at various times that an organism would be more efficient , in terms of its ability to survive , if it had , as a separate module , a model of itself , which might of course be totally false as to the facts of the self 's reality : alcoholics who believe themselves to be merely social drinkers probably survive less well than those who believe themselves to be alcoholics . |
| 20 | An English radical commented in 1887 that ‘ the present position of the European world is one in which sheer force holds a larger place than it has held in modern times since the fall of Napoleon ’ . |
| 21 | The industry which has flourished since Classical times at Torre del Greco south of Naples has developed such expertise that even corals of Japanese origin are imported there for fabrication . |
| 22 | Her mother said she 'd fallen on hard times . |
| 23 | She was in the happiest frame of mind she 'd known in recent times when later that day she returned to her car . |
| 24 | ( ii ) Second reading In his discussions with the Leader of the House relating to the Bill , the Minister will have arranged for certain times ( usually a day or two , but perhaps up to eight days ) to have been set aside for the second reading debate . |
| 25 | If I had to Oxford my finger might have come off bythe time I got there |
| 26 | Uplift of this magnitude could have occurred during Hercynian times with the stripping of considerable amounts of Carboniferous overburden . |
| 27 | The fragments of the drama thus enacted — St George , St Patrick , Beelzebub , the Devil and Devil Doit — may have derived from pre-Christian times . |
| 28 | Visitors are guided through the baths as they would have appeared in Roman times by artists ' reconstructions , spoken commentaries and fascinating computer graphics . |
| 29 | Successful attempts to get local people to participate in official conservation programmes may have increased in post-colonial times , but there are many cases of governments choosing coercion rather than participation , for example : |
| 30 | Although , when the three friends reunite in 1959 after thirteen years , they have not achieved everything they hoped for as adolescents , we are left at the end of the play with a feeling of hope — not the kind of false hope prescribed by Soviet censors but the hope that comes from being young and strong and having lived through difficult times . |