Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were probably other factors at work , which have since slipped automatically into place , but the needs expressed above were evident , being expressed by a range of people , and provided a justification for investing time and resource in trying to establish a partnership with industry . |
| 2 | We want to do all we can to help you financially during this time and have developed special loan schemes which are available to post graduates . |
| 3 | The demo can be played for some time and allows for detailed assessment before opting to buy . |
| 4 | Ins Terry Johnson said the type of theft had not happened in the town for some time and asked store owners and staff to be on their guard . |
| 5 | Synthetic brushes have been available for some time and seemed to be the ideal solution , but in the past brushes could be too soft to control well , or too hard to be fully responsive , limiting paint delivery and with little spring , performing as a poor cousin to natural hair and bristle . |
| 6 | He had been confined to a wheelchair for some time and died in August , aged 41 . |
| 7 | I worked on this for some time and extended , integrated and tried to twist it to my style . |
| 8 | This time , thanks to the more ‘ open government ’ of the council chairman , David Webster , all the sports have known their allocations for some time and make their own judgment on merit without interference from the council . |
| 9 | March has been in financial difficulties for some time and does n't have a sponsor for this season . |
| 10 | By Spain , Jackie was beginning to feel the first twinges of the ulcer which was to hamper him for some time and keep him out of racing properly — and out of Belgium altogether — until July . |
| 11 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |
| 12 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 13 | He had been unwell for some time and had now gone into a state of collapse . |
| 14 | If the Policyholder had been aware of the faulty roof for some time and had taken no action to prevent damage to the home , there may have been a breach of the reasonable care condition . |
| 15 | If a friend was visiting the Policyholder and tripped over a loose carpet there could be liability subject to the Policyholder being negligent , ie if the Policyholder had been aware of the loose carpet for some time and had done nothing to prevent an accident happening . |
| 16 | I puzzled over this one for some time and came to the conclusion that my children 's concept of life is largely derived from fairy stories in which anybody with power is always male . |
| 17 | I had known them now for some time and smiled at the thought of their good company . |
| 18 | Another factor was raised in a case in which the government did not properly consult local authorities ( as required by statute ) before making some regulations : by the time the application to revoke the regulations was heard , they had been in operation for some time and to revoke them would have caused considerable administrative inconvenience which could not be justified given that no real complaint was made about the substance of the regulations . |
| 19 | Norfolk-born Mavis McKechnie , 71 , of Mill House , Wissington , near Nayland , has wanted to try the walk for some time and decided to give it a serious purpose . |
| 20 | In fact this shift has been visible for some time and seems at present to be increasing . |
| 21 | In the UK , this ideal has been eroding for some time and seems unlikely to survive the escalating costs of current treatments . |
| 22 | Category B covered those who had lived in Britain for some time and showed no obvious signs of hostility . |
| 23 | An Information Science element had existed in the course for some time and included not only an introduction to libraries and the nature of information but also on-line retrieval systems and other forms of electronic information provision . |
| 24 | I had not seen Otley for some time and climbed up on the wall for a better view . |
| 25 | If you have not been contact with someone for some time and do not have a directory which is updated frequently , a quick phone call tell you whether your contact is still there or has moved on . |
| 26 | Bound , hard cover books , laboratory notebooks have been used for some time and have a strong pedigree . |
| 27 | It was a process which had been gathering momentum for some time and has continued since . |
| 28 | Scott has been around the rock and blues circuit in Ireland for some time and has played with many of the top musicians here . |
| 29 | has been unwell for some time and has undergone many diagnostic tests . |
| 30 | Two men armed with a butcher 's knife and wearing balaclavas , forced their way behind the bar of the Vauxhill Arms pub in Gloucester after closing time and forced the landlord to open two tills . |