Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] in [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | That afternoon in free time the sergeant stopped her , and told her the work had n't been done properly . |
| 2 | Having decided to apply — possibly a high-risk strategy in this time of rapid change in education — the rest of the process was remarkably straightforward . |
| 3 | His most serious offence in that time was taking part in a robbery while armed with a crossbow . |
| 4 | Copies of the application must be sent to the official receiver in sufficient time to enable him to attend the hearing of the application . |
| 5 | Yet this has one interesting feature , an interpolation of seven bars in triple time ; similarly one of Byrd 's five-part ‘ In nomines ’ in the same manuscript ends with a dance-like section in triple time . |
| 6 | With a mischievous grin on his face , he gyrated his lean anatomy under Janet 's neat little posterior in perfect time with the bucking machine . |
| 7 | When he was killed Vincent Massey , the High Commissioner for Canada , and Mr Justice Lawrence , the High Court Judge for whom Dermot had marshalled , wrote appreciations of him in The Times , a remarkable tribute in this time of war to an unknown young man . |
| 8 | Put dried parsley in next time . |
| 9 | The lowest , most general , and most unambiguously useful level consists in the employment of a computer to perform a humdrum task in less time than would be possible for an unaided human : the search through a text for a quotation , the determination of a word frequency , the construction and analysis of a contingency table , the classification of iconic data . |
| 10 | This structure is likely to include the advance co-ordination of diaries to ensure that all those who should attend can , a visible commitment from partners that the meetings are to be given high priority , the circulation of concise pre-reading in good time , and adherence to a formal agenda . |
| 11 | Rattler rapidly evaluates a set of high quality partial charges from semiempirical quantum mechanical calculations with a substantial reduction in computational time compared with other MEP methods . |
| 12 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 13 | At X itself there are heteroclinic orbits ( orbits which tend towards one stationary point in forward time and to another in backward time ) linking all three stationary points . |
| 14 | Doth not the good father in short time , either by his coughing or spitting or testiness … become troublesome either to his own son or to his nice daughter-in-law , with continuing so long chargeable and so much waited-on , or to the children , with taking up their room at the fire or at the table , or to the servants , while his slow eating doth scant their reversions ? |
| 15 | They even gave him a Plate to carry it on — silver , that is — when they beat Tonga in a pulsating second-tier final which saw Gareth James power over for the winning try in extra time . |
| 16 | We got to the 18th and there 's Greg Norman and Jack Nicklaus , who took five hours to get round ; we 'd done it in less than four , had a bit of lunch and more practice in that time ! |
| 17 | It was as if everything that had happened to her that day had some how taken place in another time dimension . |
| 18 | One must clearly study the variation of a species throughout its geographical range , at one moment in geological time , before one can claim that it has changed into something else . |
| 19 | ( Norman Mailer gave up smoking for a year and wrote not one word in that time . ) |
| 20 | They cost the country a small fortune in lost time and health care every year , but only a limited few of prescribed ind industrial diseases are recognized . |
| 21 | Did , even with the few times my parents have gone away , I 've never held parties , I may of had a couple of mates round just to let them kip over or something , come back I 've never , ever held a party , I would n't , I respect them , well I mean I would n't respect them make , every er penny they earned in the last fifteen years gone into that house , they 've had one holiday in that time and erm , gorgeous house , no its a lovely house , full of nice stuff as well , I , I , I would n't dare have a party |
| 22 | His only acquisition in that time has been full-back Gary Parkinson , currently on-loan from Middlesbrough . |
| 23 | It is better to recognise that situation in good time rather than being caught on the hop . ’ |
| 24 | Perhaps Zvi could put his own photograph in next time — an early one . |
| 25 | In chapter 3 I shall discuss more fully the question of how far these demographic structures do affect the nature of family obligations , at any given point in historical time , considering in particular how far demographic factors in the late twentieth century have given a particular shape to kin groups . |
| 26 | It is the presumption that during any particular moment in geological time , sediment was raining down everywhere , preserving all the different contemporaneous environments simultaneously . |
| 27 | 3.4 Digitising Video in Real Time |
| 28 | If one goes far enough back in evolutionary time , all present-day living organisms share such a common ancestor — or group of ancestors . |
| 29 | I saw clouds passing swiftly by and I sensed my own movement in another time and space . |
| 30 | Having drank in that pub for eight years and having never caused any trouble in that time , I am disgusted by the fact that there is a general ban on customers with a pierced nose . |