Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Needless to say she has to take life as quietly as possible for some time if she is to regain her health and everyone will be pleased to know she is making good progress along these lines . |
| 2 | He became very depressed for some time before he could reassess himself , start to use his considerable abilities and begin courting his wife again . |
| 3 | It stands in the open and can be left unused for some time and is then required in a hurry ! |
| 4 | It stood unused for some time and was burnt down by vandals in 1970 . |
| 5 | The weather had been dry for some time and , fanned by an easterly wind , the fire spread rapidly until , within three days , it had engulfed most of the city . |
| 6 | I worked on this for some time and extended , integrated and tried to twist it to my style . |
| 7 | It has been clear for some time that the demands of the arms control process would increasingly dominate military planning . |
| 8 | It has been clear for some time that there are a number of significant practical problems with the interpretation of SSAP 6 , Extraordinary Items and Prior Year Adjustments , particularly in respect of the variety of treatments of apparently similar events as sometimes ordinary and sometimes extraordinary items in the p&l account . |
| 9 | It has been clear for some time that the Al Fayeds are not who they said they were in 1985 . |
| 10 | That was still untended and wild ; the house had been empty for some time before they bought it , or rather Mr Paul had . |
| 11 | Er indeed the directive was promulgated as the minister said but I do n't think it was a bolt out of the blue , it was of course something that we around for some considerable time before that and of course that excuse hardly applies to the delay in establishing the European parliamentary constituency committees , er as the minister er will know very well , it was merely a matter of seven weeks , er the excuse being that had they had another seven weeks they could have had the public inquiry stage , the reality of course was that there was plenty of time to do this in good time and in good order and without the confusion that exists now er around the candidatures and the boundaries of the existing European boundaries . |
| 12 | The business of the audition is squeezed into all this in less time than it takes to shake a leg . |
| 13 | We are interested in all time and money-saving designs from farmers , workers and contractors and will award a first prize of £1,000 , two second prizes of £500 and all three third prizes of £250 for the best of the crop . |
| 14 | You can do this at any time and will receive a rebate against future charges in accordance with the provisions of the Consumer Credit ( Rebate on Early Settlement ) Regulations 1983 . |
| 15 | A You can do this at any time and will receive a rebate against future charges in accordance with the provisions of the Consumer Credit ( Rebate on Early Settlement ) Regulations 1983 . |
| 16 | You should , though , make it clear at all times that you object to the way that you have been treated . |
| 17 | She was very unfashionable at one time but I remember reading and enjoying her books . |
| 18 | It 's a terraced house and er , it 's double storey , two floors up and er , it was well-used at that time because the reason was one er , there was n't much accommodation available and secondly it is the custom amongst our people that who 's ever er is in need we have the person , like the two of us came from India , my brother and myself , so we di could n't get a job . |
| 19 | The Wallabies led 33-3 at half time and finished 46-13 winners . |
| 20 | He maintained that the distribution of tillites and patterns of glacial striations produced by ice sheets during the Late Palaeozoic glaciation ( now termed the Gondwana Ice Age ) found in the now widely dispersed continental areas of southern Africa , Australia , South America , India and Antarctica indicated that these land masses were contiguous at that time and probably located fairly close to the South Pole . |
| 21 | All these thoughts seem right and proper at this time but , when all is said and done , might not much of the above be applied to any institution ? |
| 22 | The Labour leader told an audience of business people , academics and professionals that his aim was to return to the situation of the 1960s , when fewer than one million were unemployed at any time and then mainly for short periods . |
| 23 | It should be clear by this time that if there is one critical statement entirely and absolutely wrong , it is the one quoted at the start of this chapter , about The Lord of the Rings not being ‘ moulded by some controlling vision of things which is at the same time its raison d'être' . |
| 24 | The Duke and Duchess were old by this time and salvation uppermost on the Duke 's mind , it would seem . |
| 25 | She had been listless for some time and the woman could only hope that moving her right away from the influence of the people she went around with into these beautiful surroundings might bring her back to herself . |
| 26 | It 's proving to be a strain , both financially and physically — since we are doing as much of the work ourselves as possible — and our friends were convinced for some time that we had gone mad ! |
| 27 | One has been convinced for some time that the idea was to take Weir in the guise of a No 6 . |
| 28 | In fact this shift has been visible for some time and seems at present to be increasing . |
| 29 | Including relatives ( or friends ) in this and offering information such as visiting times and the hospital telephone number reassures the patient that there is no intention of cutting him off from his family and social contacts . |
| 30 | Dove & Olive beat Avon Athletic 5-3 after extra time and Kevin Abley scored a hat-trick for Edge Hill BCOB ( Steve Parry 2 , Alan Fulton ) in a 6-0 home win over MDH Co . |