Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The up-front payment mentioned in Clause 1 of this Schedule will be used to set off this advance payment until such time as it is used up . |
| 2 | Her own sleep the light , fragmented pre-waking kind by this time , Maria realised what was happening at once and merely gave him a sleepily complacent smile , pleased to see the disturbance in his eyes as he regarded her suspiciously . |
| 3 | But they say he 's the greatest photographer of all time . ’ |
| 4 | Now the modern Sylvia realized that the family had very little money at that time and that the birthday party given for her was probably quite a meagre affair compared with the boisterous celebrations on her own children 's birthdays . |
| 5 | He called on other nuclear powers , notably China and the United Kingdom , to follow suit , saying that it provided " a real opportunity for … a total ban for all time on nuclear tests " . |
| 6 | Handfast Point was joined to the cliff by a narrow ridge at this time . |
| 7 | That afternoon in free time the sergeant stopped her , and told her the work had n't been done properly . |
| 8 | It 's shooting a film for American television based on ’ Heart of Darkness ’ — the Joseph Conrad novel that 's been described as the greatest story of all time . |
| 9 | comng up later , the ’ greatest story of all time ’ becomes a new film . |
| 10 | ‘ We all agreed after the dinner that George was obviously under the influence of drink , but that does not excuse saying that the greatest footballer of all time ‘ was n't bad for a nigger ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ I have always felt that it is a crying shame that the works of possibly the greatest writer of all time , William Shakespeare , have — purely for examination purposes — been pushed down the throats of school children . |
| 12 | The following extract from the introduction summarises the prevailing situation : Deaf people are fairly certain to encounter deaf discrimination at some time : perhaps in the education they receive , in the career opportunities open to them , or during their day-to-day lives . |
| 13 | ‘ I told him that as far as I was concerned he was junior shit of all time . |
| 14 | Not only may the defendant be permitted , in the discretion of the court , to change that plea at any time before sentence , but , when a plea of guilty to a lesser offence than that charged has initially been accepted by the prosecutor with the approval of the court , there can , it appears to their Lordships , be no finality in that ‘ acceptance ’ until sentence is passed . |
| 15 | I tell you I can break this bond , and maybe I will this time and leave you to starve , and maybe I wo n't , maybe I 'll leave that pleasure for another time . |
| 16 | It is a personal , highly subjective account which seeks to relate my experience as an Irish lesbian , my involvement in political action at that time and my subsequent emigration to England in the mid-seventies . |
| 17 | They gained weight , and may have stayed at that weight for some time . |
| 18 | Anchovies — an important source of protein for animal feed — also mysteriously disappeared from the Peruvian coast around this time . |
| 19 | The decision of most lesbians with any political sensibility at that time to do this left many mixed gay organizations in a quandary . |
| 20 | Indeed , if his ( undated ) grant to the abbey of Fécamp ( S 949 ) is genuine , one might suppose that he visited the Norman coast at some time , and his generosity to a foundation which had been particularly favoured by the ducal family ( in 1001 Richard II invited the celebrated monastic reformer William of Dijon to be its abbot ) seems most likely to mean that his relations with them were still satisfactory . |
| 21 | It has become standard practice to picture the two cultures as standing in the most acute opposition at that time . |
| 22 | Some US congressmen believe that the Japanese are secretly developing test-tube fusion technology and that the US is already losing the race for the economic bonanza of all time . |
| 23 | What is the greatest car of all time ? |
| 24 | For each nuclide at each time the geometric of anterior and posterior counts was calculated , to compensate for the anteroposterior movement of the gastric contents during emptying . |
| 25 | There is no mention of such an event in any other historical literature of this time . |
| 26 | In the hydrochlorothiazide group one patient ( case 20 ) ( initially with high microalbuminuria ) developed high blood pressure not controlled after six months of treatment ( he still had high microalbuminuria at this time ) , and he was therefore excluded according to the protocol . |
| 27 | According to local history , this field at that time would have been the playing fields of Mr Burton 's private school , which eventually became Victoria Park . |
| 28 | I accept from Mr that she would have been a trainee manager for some part of that time and I assess her salary as being something like seven thousand pounds net . |
| 29 | There we find similar bodily constructs built up as series of organizing principles , so that the other regiment or unit is perceived to operate in some kind of polluted time and space , and its aberrant nuances of uniform styling used as a marker of significant difference . |
| 30 | In another case around this time we can see how different newspapers use familiar but different tags to identify a particular ‘ sex beast ’ . |