Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] time [coord] " in BNC.

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1 Angry , frustrated , humiliated — all the usual emotions experienced time and again in his presence .
2 Structured or non-structured , such activities demand time and thought and imagination and knowledge and research to get ready : at any age or ability level .
3 Such approaches take time but … such shared activity helps to create a climate in which individuals may change themselves .
4 Presumably some patrol ship on the high seas might log messages in this way , but it is clear that , as humans , our experience of utterances is not that we have recorded in memory a list of utterances to which are attached standard tags specifying time and place in these terms .
5 These discussions take time but are essential to ward teaching .
6 Puritanical movements have time and time again , in Europe and America , linked a rigorous sexual code of practice with pacifism and an ethic of non-violence .
7 In that long thin strip of middle England , with its old towns and charmless Birmingham commuter-belt estates , Tory canvassers heard time and time again that voters wanted to punish the government for the poll tax .
8 Inevitably , these negotiations take time but we are currently contacting various radio and television companies and will keep you involved in the identification of key issues for coverage in your area .
9 Many questions recur time and time again .
10 In addition , Compact firms make time and people available to schools — and this can be even better than money !
11 Face-to-face interviews take time and cost much more in relation to the number of respondents interviewed .
12 Communal drains save time and money when several houses are being built together , but there can be a problem sorting out whose responsibility it is when something goes wrong .
13 But worse is the fact that the same accidents happen time and time again .
14 Not only may the meetings of the relevant bodies absorb time and energy , but there is a danger that the number of approaches and instruments may lead to incoherence in international and domestic law .
15 The fate of attempted reforms has only added to the north 's alienation , as Catholic bishops have time and again pulled Dublin 's politicians by the ear — ‘ a question ’ , as the senior archbishop put it earlier this month , ‘ of legislators respecting the moral convictions to which people adhere , and which are influenced by their membership of the church . ’
16 The recognition of parents who intentionally harmed their children could not be easily accommodated within the understanding of what these services were there to do : the scandals and the subsequent enquiries revealed time and again that social workers could not see what to lay people was painfully obvious , and what lawyers and other professionals ( with the benefit of hindsight ) constructed to be their duty to recognize .
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