Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | The thing the thing about MPs is they they think erm You have to be fairly careful because I I spend quite a lot of time interviewing MPs and I I think that er er they 're quite interesting some of the time to talk to . |
2 | Was this guideline followed : 1 Hardly any of the time ? 2 Some of the time ? 3 Most of the time ? 4 All of the time ? |
3 | But all those have come out in eighteen forty three at the time of the disruption . |
4 | I know most of you will have seen the 7–0 vs Southampton ( 32 passes was n't it ) , or the 5–1 vs Man Utd , but I reckon the 4–0 murder of Aston Villa ( who were in the top 5 at the time ) at Villa Park and the 6–1 at Hillsborough were some of the best soccer I have ever seen . |
5 | The card followed him , its corners bent and the stamps half torn-off by the time it reached him . |
6 | These are far-ranging debates on the state of the economy , though for some third of the time members have actually talked about taxation . |
7 | Even the haze beneath the cloud lies above the high altitude of about 31 km beneath which the Cytherean atmosphere is clear most of the time . |
8 | One source of hostility towards civilization , felt by probably everyone at some points in their lives , and by some most of the time , arises from the restrictions which moral codes place on sexual activities , confining it , in West European cultures , to heterosexual relations with one partner over the whole of a lifetime . |
9 | Fairfax has a couple of gins and tonic ready by the time I have the fire blazing . |
10 | It was often buried away among Regency reproduction furniture in shops which were empty most of the time . |
11 | ‘ Most people are wrong most of the time , ’ he said , with such firmness that she slid him another look , surprised ; he was strong behind his gentleness and hesitancy , she thought — strong in a way that was n't common . |
12 | ( The context here makes the other possible reading , that the speaker is characteristically nervous all of the time , so unlikely as not to be considered apparently by the addressee , or indeed by the analyst until the process of analysis was brought to conscious attention . ) |
13 | We were just in our early twenties by the time I left The Pistols , beginning to find our way in the world , starting to get more confidence . |
14 | In chilly conditions , P. McReynolds came close to a personal best with a time of 1 hr. 6 mins. 31 secs . |
15 | ‘ He 's pretty straightforward most of the time , but he will nip darned hard when you 're tacking up and mean it ! |
16 | You know when I talk to friends they tell me that despite all my big race wins I have still been virtually ignored by the public who seem unaware most of the time that I am around . |
17 | It 's obscene , in the nineteen nineties at a time of three million plus unemployed that we 've still have a skill shortage in this country . |
18 | Two or three thousand at a time turned out to salute their leaders in the military unison of the raised arm and the clenched fist . |
19 | The present texts indicate that the 70 souls of Joseph 's day had risen to two or three million at the time of the Exodus ( Numbers 1 ) and to at least five million in the time of David ( 2 Samuel 24:9 ; 1 Chronicles 21:5 ) . |
20 | He was hardly conscious most of the time , and I did n't want to put any more strain on him . |
21 | With the second , the pregnancy was miserable and I felt ill most of the time . |
22 | They spent their honeymoon at rue Roland , by the way — Hugh was the classic brilliant but penniless academic at the time and , to do him credit , he did n't want to take Veronica 's money . |
23 | Conflict theorists emphasise that most areas of our lives involve us in institutionalised power relationships , and most of us are subordinate most of the time . |
24 | I realize I 'm sort of giving a very , very negative impression , and I do n't want to give the suggestion either that being unemployed has to be always bad , that all unemployed people are having a totally horrible time all of the time and are feeling very depressed all of the time — that 's not the case — but I 'm afraid that is more like the average erm situation , the typical situation , than otherwise . |
25 | Although all things are not possible all of the time students possess a considerable measure of initiative in programme design . |
26 | ‘ I am sufficiently stupid to have put up with all that for a time , but I will not be cuckolded by a duck . |
27 | And all this at a time when they are undergoing dramatic changes both physically and emotionally — changes which they often find very difficult to deal with . |
28 | You should n't have to put up with all this at a time of such sadness . |
29 | And all this at a time when China 's leaders are asking the PLA to do a bigger job than ever before . |
30 | Why had n't they gone into all this at the time , really thrashed it out ? |