Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] time [art] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's a masterpiece , I mean we have been it 's on every year in this country somewhere , and the idea that the first time a Parisian company should put on Peter Grimes in 1981 is staggering . |
2 | Seán Mac Stíofáin indicates that the first time the leadership discussed the civil rights movement was when |
3 | So that the next time a shop assistant ( particularly one who looks as if he might not know what day of the week it is ) asks how Sir or Madam will be paying they 'll say ‘ Cash ’ and make quite sure they rip up the receipt as they leave . |
4 | so we agreed that the next time a priest was around |
5 | If we avoid facing up to it we then make it more likely that the next time the situation , or a similar one , is encountered we will avoid it again . |
6 | ( Who knows , they may even enjoy a book so much that the next time the author is published they may even buy it at full price ! ) |
7 | I remember driving down to Leith on that Friday night , and just going for a walk and thinking that the next time the sun came up I would be playing at Murrayfield . |
8 | There 's no game for Oxford this weekend so the next time the team takes to the field they 'll be under new management … |
9 | There was no door between the kitchens and the alley at the back , only a curtain of brown and yellow beads that clicked when there was a breeze , which was just about never because it was summer and the only time the air moved was when Zervos waved his short arms or a truck went past outside . |
10 | He had been twice into Ruane 's office , and the first time the block had been polite , and the second time he had been told rather less politely to sit on his hands and wait , like everybody else had to . |
11 | ‘ And the first time the door to the viewing room was locked in some way ? ’ |
12 | It happened twice at Bourn to my knowledge — once the fighter was shot down by anti-aircraft fire and the other time the rear gunner in the Lancaster was killed . |
13 | But the first time she 'd spoken to Colin he 'd told her there was a hi-tech at the manufacturer 's end , and the second time the shop had been closed . |
14 | The success you have in rehabilitating Chloe Joe depends on your sensitivity towards her and the infinite time an patience you are prepared to spend — remember , one lapse of patience could set her back by weeks . |
15 | François Guizot , an archetypal representative of the political élite , neatly summed up the Prince 's appeal : ‘ It means a great deal to be at one and the same time a national glory , a revolutionary guarantee , and a principle of authority . ’ |
16 | At one political meeting last month , I was abused being at one and the same time a pro-Marketeer , an anti-devolutionist , and , horror of horrors , pro-Sizewell ( AGR tendency only , I hasten to add ) . |
17 | As Cole points out , the Pioneers ‘ were setting out to be at one and the same time a Producers ’ and a Consumers ' Society ; and this seemed natural to them because all their endeavours were meant to lead to the creation of a Co-operative Community on the Owenite model , in which the distinction between producers and consumers would not exist . ’ |
18 | Still , they were to be forgiven because the course they adopted , of ‘ setting out to be at one and the same time a Producers ’ and a Consumers ' Society' seemed natural to them . |
19 | Here we are concerned with a form of corporate provision that can also be used to provide at one and the same time a safety net and a reward for initiative . |
20 | Imagine every moment being at one and the same time a distant memory and a nasty surprise and you 'll see what I mean . |
21 | In other words , if a majority of member states want to adopt a piece of legislation which has the effect of transferring sovereign powers from national governments to the European Community institutions , that is at one and the same time an expression of national interest . ’ |
22 | The reason for this equality of values arises from the fact that a financial claim is at one and the same time an asset to one economic unit and a liability to another . |
23 | Most important is GlavPU , the Chief Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Navy , at one and the same time an organ of the Ministry of Defence and of the Central Committee , where it has departmental status . |
24 | Inside the ark were the tablets of the law — the supreme verbal statement of God 's holiness ( 26:16 ) ; at one and the same time the reason why God dwelt alone ( for none can match his holiness ) , and why by means of blood a sinner might enter his presence ( for the blood speaks of life laid down in payment for sin ) . |
25 | ’ WEU could establish a link between a Europe in the process of unification and an Atlantic Alliance in the process of transformation and thus provide the vehicle for a stronger Europe to contribute more to joint security WEU must be at one and the same time the means of allowing Europe to make its voice heard in a Euro-American dialogue ’ — it must never be forgotten that Europe must always have an input into that dialogue — ’ of which the Atlantic Alliance is the institutional framework and the instrument for making the most of the European contribution to the defence of the West This contribution of Europe is the more essential in that the American military presence on the continent of Europe , reduced since the war in the Gulf , will remain below what it was in the past Defence policy should continue to be made in the organisations which assure collective defence , NATO , and WEU . |
26 | The Christmas dinner ( celebrated by Dickens ) , the Christmas tree ( invented in Germany , but rapidly acclimatised through royal patronage in England ) , the Christmas song — best known through the Germanic Stille Nacht — symbolised at one and the same time the cold of the outside world , the warmth of the family circle within , and the contrast between the two . |
27 | So I was determined to show them I could take a joke and the next time a big stork went over I pretended not to know what it was called and asked my girl . |
28 | Desperate now , I pulled a third time , and a third time the boots slipped . |
29 | This time is not the period required overall but the actual time the chemical is in contact with the soil and is known as contact time . |
30 | Er er but the second time the police came and asked quite a lot of questions about it . |