Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Computerisation , although established for some time in sales and administration , has been introduced to Production Control . |
| 32 | One thing that works at this time forget today and yesterday and all the week it 's the number of children that come into this playhouse now we have us we have a thing called work experience where they come from the school 's and the poor little bugger 's have got ta work with me . . |
| 33 | There is clear advantage — in terms of time use — in prescribing drugs rather than engaging in more time consuming counselling , or confronting the social origins of the problems . |
| 34 | THE annual rate of inflation was reduced by more than half during the three Conservative administrations after May , 1979 , but unemployment more than doubled during that time . |
| 35 | Acetylcysteine also seems to improve survival in established fulminant hepatic failure , perhaps by reversing some of the adverse haemodynamic changes that occur at that time . |
| 36 | His subsequent progress inside the Corporation was rapid and distinctive — from the external services in Bush House to Canada again , this time as BBC representative from 1956 to 1959 ; back to Bush House as head of external broadcasting administration ; on to Broadcasting House as the BBC 's secretary ( 1963–6 ) , a post of varying status and influence at different times in the history of the BBC , but during the regime of the director-general , Sir Hugh Greene , who had personally selected Curran for the job , a key post drawing him into discussions of policy , often highly controversial policy , as well as of administration ; back again to Bush House as director of external services ( 1967–9 ) , which brought him into close touch with government ; and on Greene 's retirement , becoming , to his considerable surprise , director-general himself in April 1969 . |
| 37 | The temptation for a band may be to say that there is too much hassle attached to gigging in the Soviet Union and to wait for better times . |
| 38 | ‘ We have therefore suspended the Winchester Group as an appointed representative of the Norwich Union to take effect immediately and to continue until such time as they hear further from us to the contrary . |
| 39 | First , that we have no intention of abandoning public ownership and accepting for all time the present frontier of the public sector . |
| 40 | Cells ( 50000 ) in serum free medium were added to each coated well and incubated for various times at 36°C . |
| 41 | As antimalarial drugs were desperately needed during the war , it is startling to realize that chloroquine was first synthesized several years before the war and recognized at that time as having antimalarial activity . |
| 42 | He was a brilliant scholar , and lived for some time at ‘ Titeup Hall , ’ Dalton . |
| 43 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 44 | The pillars show borings made by marine organisms several metres above the present highest sea-level and so provide undeniable evidence of marine Invasions and retreats within historic times . |
| 45 | On 4 August 1989 solicitors acting on behalf of the relatives wrote to the coroner repeating the facts as I have summarised them and requesting that an inquest be held to inquire whether or not the death had been caused or aggravated by failures of the emergency services to respond to the calls and to attend in proper time . |
| 46 | I crept in beside him and lay for some time with throbbing head . |
| 47 | Clearly , in order to obtain this kind of information it is necessary to conduct three assessments under similar conditions so that they are directly comparable and spaced at equal time intervals . |
| 48 | Although the famous gallery owner is thinking of retiring and has for some time been searching for an institution to take on his private collection , the title of the event ‘ TransForm ’ is not a veiled reference to his forthcoming conversion from art dealer to museum collector . |
| 49 | Sir William Pickering was Knight Marshal to Henry VIII , and when he died in 1542 he left Oswaldkirk to his 24-year-old son , an extremely handsome and distinguished courtier and diplomat , brave and wise as well , and considered at one time as a suitor for Queen Elizabeth . |
| 50 | They much appreciate the work being done by Mrs Doyle , but they are not in a walk of life where they can sit back and wait for better times . |
| 51 | It is not surprising that many professionals involved in education are rather dispirited and disillusioned at this time . |
| 52 | And wait to such times as they could pay it back , |
| 53 | Length of gestation was significantly associated only with wheezy chest most days ( p<0.01 ) and cough at other times ( p<0.05 ) in the adjusted models . |
| 54 | Advice and support at this time could aim to minimise the chances of a girl returning to an unhappy discordant home and to parents with whom she may largely have lost touch . |
| 55 | Above all , they will need your loving understanding and support for some time to come . |
| 56 | He asked about proceedings at Central Strike Headquarters and lingered for some time on the subject although he received no information . |
| 57 | The chip set required for this captures and compresses in real time both still and moving video but at a significantly lower resolution than PLV . |
| 58 | Allowed to choose her hairdresser , Carole Ann Ford plumped for an up-and-coming young stylist she had known and visited for some time named Vidal Sassoon . |
| 59 | ‘ You drove to Penzance , leaving home at about seven-thirty , you went to the film and started to drive back , but your van broke down at Badger 's Cross and after trying to start it and sheltering for some time , you walked home , arriving at about half-past two . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ Strangely enough , ’ Ockleton had said , Harry having to strain to hear him amidst the noise and smoke as closing time drew near , ‘ Rex was the one who seemed to interest Heather the most . |