Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [prep] the 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 | ‘ He 's pretty straightforward most of the time , but he will nip darned hard when you 're tacking up and mean it ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | He was hardly conscious most of the time , and I did n't want to put any more strain on him . |
| 18 | With the second , the pregnancy was miserable and I felt ill most of the time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Although all things are not possible all of the time students possess a considerable measure of initiative in programme design . |
| 23 | Why had n't they gone into all this at the time , really thrashed it out ? |
| 24 | But better than that , Mr. Deputy Speaker — I am sure that you will allow 30 seconds indulgence here — I remind Conservative Members , although they were not all present at the time , of a Bill introduced way back in 1976 , if we can have a trip down memory lane . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | The tide of her secret lapped around her ; soon she would be too tired all of the time . |
| 27 | Except I 'm awful awful tired all of the time . |
| 28 | C can we s sorry to keep coming back to this one but I want to leave the A sixty one for the time being . |
| 29 | The weather was so vile most of the time , and John so busy that we had quite a contented and simple domestic time , John whizzing away at the computer and me in the ( cane ) rocking chair with my feet up on another reading away . |
| 30 | If the problem becomes acute — that is , you feel inadequate most of the time — then it is best to seek professional advice . |