Example sentences of "[adj] time [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years later during the war when I went to Central Flying School to get an instructors rating , he once more instructed me and this time got another gong — Air Force Cross — for conduct far and beyond the call of duty , trying a second time to teach me to fly ( or so my mentors claim ) . |
| 2 | ‘ I had just one fish from the swim the week before but this time had five botes and took four fish , ’ said David . |
| 3 | Halling at this time had considerable hop fields from the area of the Plough to North and Upper Halling , the last of these fields to survive being in Upper Halling in the early 20th century . |
| 4 | Russia at this time had potential labour force over double that which it had in the mid 19th Century . |
| 5 | However , some natives at this time became unreliable guides and could give away a patrol 's position . |
| 6 | German radar at St Marc or lookouts at about this time reported 17 ships , so the coastal batteries were closed up for action against ships . |
| 7 | Psion , creators of the first personal organiser , have for some time made plug-in modules available to provide dictionary and other data facilities . |
| 8 | The possibility that the MacQuillan empire was facing hard times raised interesting questions about the future of the Post , but Rain 's glass was empty and Shildon read that as a signal that she was impatient to leave . |
| 9 | Only at these times did any sub-divisions within the Rowdies group become apparent . |
| 10 | Popular Athenian sentiment in ancient times showed little sympathy for aliens , deviants or whingers , and it could be rough on women as a species ; and there is a strong male smell of British-is-best among writers newly emerged after 1945 . |
| 11 | The small size of the private-rented sector and the difficulties which council house tenants face in moving between local authority areas have for a long time constituted major barriers to long distance migration by lower-income workers ( Robertson , 1979 ; Hughes and McCormick , 1981 ; OPCS , 1983 ; Hamnett , 1984 ) . |
| 12 | Elite theorists for a long time countered pluralist optimism about the interest group process by citing case studies of less savoury interest group campaigns , such as the setting up of a commercial TV channel in Britain or industrial regulation in the USA ( Prewitt and Stone , 1973 ) . |
| 13 | The Government was unwilling to spend money on taking over the house , but for a long time courted various businessmen in the hope that they would provide a major part of the funds . |
| 14 | The geometric mean time weighted average concentration of formaldehyde was 1.9 PPM , with a relatively low variability of samples ; levels of methanol ranged from .54 to 21.83 PPM . |
| 15 | Spiro at one time had extensive dealings in the Middle East and , according to reports , may have been used as a go-between for the CIA and MI6 during the hostage negotiations in the Lebanon . |
| 16 | Spiro at one time had extensive dealings in the Middle East and , according to reports , may have been used as a go-between for the CIA and MI6 during the hostage negotiations in the Lebanon . |
| 17 | There remained only ‘ Z ’ Special Force , an undercover operation on the island run by Captains Broadhurst and Wylie , former members of the Malay police force , who organised native lookouts and a radio reporting system which at one time had 25 radio stations on the island , demonstrating how a few guerrillas may succeed in adverse local conditions where a larger force can not survive . |
| 18 | An outstanding West African nationalist and journalist , Azikiwe at one time owned six papers . |
| 19 | The trio — all of whom had at one time endured menial jobs in factories , Stock making gaskets , Aitken fizzy drinks and Waterman manufacturing telephone dials — were now at the helm of the 1980 ’ s most phenomenal Hit Factory . |
| 20 | In 1889 the Prevention of Cruelty and Protection of Children Act for the first time outlawed proven cruelty to children and allowed children in certain circumstances to be removed from their families to a place of safety , usually a charitable institution such as Barnardo 's . |
| 21 | On Feb. 6 the World Bank for the first time made major loans to Poland for structural adjustment purposes , totalling $360,000,000 , while indicating that loans in the pipeline could total five times that amount in 1990 . |
| 22 | Representatives of West Berlin , which is not a constituent part of the Federal Republic , in both the Bundestag and Bundesrat have since May 1990 for the first time had full voting rights in both bodies . |
| 23 | Respectable workers were rewarded with the vote , and in 1868 the Royal Commission on Trade Unions recommended the extension of legal protection for trade unions , which was achieved in the Trade Union Act of 1871 which for the first time gave legal protection to Trade Union funds and the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1875 which legalized peaceful picketing . |
| 24 | An hour and a half into the debate all four for the first time gave succinct answers in agreement to one question and were rewarded with a cheer from the floor ! |
| 25 | At that time , the central government , desperate to find new conscripts for the war , for the first time introduced military service for the minority peoples . |
| 26 | This for the first time drew explicit attention to the contradiction between the order EX 77268 of 17 May , the " Distone order " , that " Chetniks and dissident Jugoslavs " should be evacuated to Italy , and the agreement reached by 5 Corps that they should be handed over : " Ref F 77268 of 17 [ the Distone order ] . |
| 27 | Great significance has been attached to the " break with the past " at the end of the eighteenth century , when critical economic changes for the first time allowed sustained population growth . |
| 28 | Mrs Cresson has already several times hinted that parliament may be dissolved if the conservative opposition tries to block government bills . |
| 29 | Crevecoeur had for a brief , intoxicating time enjoyed intimate relations with Ms Micklemas , an affair whose firepower had been skyfilling and radiant and whose energy devoured itself within two weeks . |
| 30 | Around the same time came two cantatas , ‘ Holyrood ’ ( 1861 ) , and ‘ Daughter of the Isles ’ ( 1862 ) , and two works given at Covent Garden : the operetta Romance , or Bold Dick Turpin ( 1860 ) and the romantic opera Ida , or the Guardian Storks ( 1865 ) . |