Example sentences of "[verb] most [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | From Llewellyn-Jones ' ( 1981a , b ) findings , there must be a question as to whether BSL interpreting is actually occurring most of the time . |
| 5 | Existing policies keep most people occupied most of the time . |
| 6 | Rather , I settle for a balanced , rounded style of dressing most of the time , more Dougie Heywood than Tommy Nutter . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We 'll spend most of the time in bed . ’ |
| 11 | Although he has yet to win since his comeback , The Committee 's performances have been improving most of the time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Weather did not deter them ; it rained most of the time and they traversed ground that had little or no trace of thoroughfare . |
| 14 | After previous days ' lovely weather , disappointed that visibility was poor and it rained most of the time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ But I do n't know where I 'm heading most of the time and there just was n't time to be together . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The one that I tend to use most of the time is this one not least , because it only three pounds , and it 's quite affordable but a , again , it 's got a loud sound to it , and I found that if you carry one of these with you and somebody does approach you , you 've always got this in your pocket and you can actually aim it them , cos they do n't know what you 've got in your hand . |
| 19 | Just from racing so long I know what it 's going to do most of the time so I can adjust the pressure on the handlebars and know how hard I can drive it into the pavement . |
| 20 | He left most of his meal , and seemed uninterested in any of the conversation she attempted , answering in monosyllables most of the time . |
| 21 | It is easier for this to happen if there are in any case two copies of most genes present most of the time , as in diploids . |
| 22 | Well if you remember most of the time the lights are off . |
| 23 | Consequently , protein-binding sites exposed during multiple dissociation events will most of the time escape the DMS attack and hence remain intact . |
| 24 | Sub-contracting works fine most of the time but if you want something done urgently and the typesetter is broken or tied up on a job for its owner then guess who 's work is going to have to wait . |
| 25 | Erm , the advantage of this way is it tends to confuse most of the time , but it 's a lot quicker . |
| 26 | As we have noticed above , the success of any social dialectological project in a dialect-divergent community depends crucially on adequate methods of analysing linguistic variation , and it is this analysis that takes most of the time . |
| 27 | He spent like four hours or something with the attorney general and with these three other staff over there … and they spent most of the time talking about all aspects of the Iran initiative and so forth , and then at the very end Meese pulled out that April memo … and said , ‘ what about this ? ’ |
| 28 | At a rally addressed by Labour 's Dennis Healey , they spent most of the time trying to avoid one of their school dinner ladies , who was forever shouting to the platform : ‘ You 're just feathering the beds for the Tories . ’ |
| 29 | Whatever the weather they spent most of the time waiting for fares , either at one or other of the Railway Stations or the cab ranks in Fisherton Street or Blue Boar Row . |
| 30 | ‘ We took Laura to one evening reception where she spent most of the time entertaining folk in the kitchen . |