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

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1 During this time it grew dark , the darkness seeming to rise from the river to make it one with the sky .
2 This time it caught Millie across the wrist , and when she reacted by rising from her seat in an effort to leave the room , she found herself thrust back with such force that her head bobbed on her shoulders .
3 It is said that one of the merits of ‘ Documenta ’ this time round is that , with four much-travelled curators , it is truly international in its scope , and that for the first time it takes account of artists not operating in the great ‘ art capitals ’ …
4 For many women in coal communities it provided the only wage labour available to them , and for the first time it provided wages for the work they 'd always done .
5 For the first time it includes children 's wear and one of the best known names in British fashion — Hardy Amies , now living in the Cotswolds and still designer to the Queen .
6 The only time it makes sense to talk of a distinctive Country party in Parliament , in the sense of a genuine coalition of dissident Whigs and Tories who were united in their opposition to the government , is for the years 1691 – 5 .
7 At the same time it diverted attention away from the underlying structural explanations of society and economy , as part of a general process of ‘ mystification ’ whereby surface manifestations are confused for root causes .
8 Television , itself a constant passive-oral indulgence , stimulates and satisfies sadistic fantasies ; at the same time it blunts responsiveness to one 's sadistic impulses .
9 It turns from Proust 's text and looks outward to the language system in general ; and at the same time it represents de Man 's voice speaking from outside and intruding into Proust 's text .
10 At the same time it confers obligations .
11 At the same time it gave encouragement to local amenity groups to press for improvements .
12 At the same time it has remorse about it and generosity of spirit .
13 The idea that energy had a quantum nature married neatly enough with the view that light was a wave motion , but at the same time it set people thinking in terms of particles once more .
14 At the same time it permits cost-effectiveness for instance in terms of marketing and distribution costs .
15 And at the same time it draws attention away from your activities here in the Wilds .
16 Currently the United States does not have a droit de suite , a law that mandates that artists receive a percentage of the price of a work each time it changes hands .
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