Example sentences of "[conj] in [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It always was a surprise , the pure majesty of the scene approaching the Alps , more especially in moonlight ; it seemed odd to me , whilst devouring this special panorama that in a short time we would be raining all the horrors of war down on people not seriously willing to fight . |
| 2 | asserted that in the present time the defendant 's liability in Rylands v. Fletcher itself ‘ could simply have been placed on the defendant 's failure of duty to take reasonable care , ’ and it seems a logical inference from this and from the judgment as a whole that the Court of Appeal considered the rule to have no useful function in modern times . |
| 3 | Corbett had been alone with her for five minutes when she died , but Mr Justice McKinnon told the jury ’ You simply could not be sure that in the short time Danielle was under his control he caused her death . |
| 4 | for this idea to work , one has to consider histories that take place in imaginary time , rather than in the real time in which we perceive ourselves as living . |
| 5 | We were taken the few miles out to Wyton by RAF transport and in a short time , smiling falsely at each other and with our cumbersome parachutes bumping round our legs , we found ourselves walking out to the plane for our first flight . |
| 6 | This fire grew very rapidly and in a short time the port wing was burnt away . |
| 7 | Our expansion had necessitated the leasing of more expensive equipment and in a short time the café was losing a lot of money . |
| 8 | Pondering on her invitation , suddenly the idea came to me that my collection of quotations and prayers could form the basis of a helpful book , and in a short time an anthology took shape under the title of Journey for a Soul . |
| 9 | It has a modern bistro feel , and in a short time catering manager Debbie Ferrie and her staff have impressed with their food . |
| 10 | That is , each of the samples should be a random representative sample of the whole user population in a specific geographical location and in a given time period . |
| 11 | This was no easy matter , it being a crumbly cheese — My mother however did it — I went into the garden for something or other , and in the mean time my Brother Frank minced my cheese , ‘ to disappoint the favorite ’ . |
| 12 | She was good fun to be with and easy to talk to , and in the short time he 'd known her she had shown a ready sense of humour . |
| 13 | The Lord Chancellor has publicly invited the profession to put forward its own proposals for savings and in the little time allowed , the following package has now been put to the Lord Chancellor . |
| 14 | could not temper itself , but needs she must bewray her outrageous lust , and in an inconvenient time of the year , despising all discommodities of the way and weather , and all danger of thieves , she betook herself headlong to her journey with such a company as no man of any honest degree would have adventured his life and his goods among them . |
| 15 | His mother and a council of nobles were appointed to act as Regents , but in a short time the queen had fallen out with her colleagues , not least because she was an avowed supporter of the house of York , while several of them stood for Lancaster . |
| 16 | But in the mean time , whose hand has Granovsky escaped from ? |
| 17 | But in the mean time , encouraged perhaps by such apparent signs of weakness , perhaps simply by pressure on their order-books , the Edinburgh master printers began recruiting girl apprentices in larger numbers than ever before during the early years of the century , to the growing despair of the ETS and increasing anger from the male trade-union movement in general . |
| 18 | But in the mean time my wages I 've had last week have been spent |
| 19 | Lillywhite was fourth and Smith ninth but in the same time as the second placed man , ensuring them the top two places overall . |