Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | When operating at low speed the freewheeling time of the phase currents is short compared to the total excitation time and for most of the cycle the phase current is carried by the switching transistors . |
| 2 | THE ‘ Grim Reaper ’ of ice hockey explained the role he has at Wembley Arena today : ‘ I go out and do a job on anyone who is giving our top scorers a hard time . ’ |
| 3 | These were the people Wesley had come to Cornwall to save , to rescue from the devil and , by all accounts , they had given the old campaigner a hard time of it . |
| 4 | Maybe they had been for old times the old times that had never really existed . |
| 5 | She was then able to spend occasional weekends at her daughters ' flats , but still gave the residential staff a hard time on her return . |
| 6 | For unemployed people the free time becomes rather like an empty desert with very , very few oases , and one of the results of our research was to find that , well first of all that unemployed people tend to describe their time in very negative ways , as being empty , as having nothing to do , little activity and so on in it . |
| 7 | At high speeds the freewheeling time is relatively long but the effective phase voltage is unchanged , even though the bridge diodes are conducting for a substantial part of the cycle . |
| 8 | Be that as it may , the local kids gave that poor old man a helluva time . |
| 9 | Wilson and I had n't had a proper meal the whole time and now my stomach was beginning to remind me there were other things in life besides Scotch and bourbon . |
| 10 | Conversely , warm weather , convivial surroundings and sexual activity a short time before measurement will all temporarily increase the resting size of the organ . |
| 11 | Finally when molecular motion increases to a sufficiently high level , all the chains behave like weak springs the whole time . |
| 12 | ‘ You were in a rotten mood the whole time . |
| 13 | I felt tremendous guilt the whole time , I felt so ashamed of these terrible thoughts locked inside me . |
| 14 | The following day the Irish Times headlined the company 's intention to remain in Ireland , giving it more prominence than a Cabinet statement . |
| 15 | The following day the Financial Times reported that Leuna and Buna , eastern Germany 's two largest chemical concerns , were each to receive DM250 million ( US$150 million ) in credits guaranteed by Treuhand to assist their restructuring . |
| 16 | That means I can sail happily upwind or downwind in perfect control the whole time . |
| 17 | But I found out his real secret a long time ago . |
| 18 | It took the sad pair a long time to burn — I once read that the bill for the execution , including stake , chains and timber , came to about £3.7shillings ; . |
| 19 | This was so important that for each of the national developments a full time National Development Officer ( NDO ) was seconded for a year from a college . |
| 20 | Asked what are the essential components of a good picture the Irish Times man suggests that it should boast a very powerful and immediate visual impact . |
| 21 | Although the Magharians were arrested , al-Kassar and Haser had been under protective surveillance the whole time and were both spirited away before the trap closed . |
| 22 | This seems to indicate that the rock was of sacred significance a long time before Augustine visited . |
| 23 | Do n't miss any more because it 's going to be difficult fitting the extra time aft |
| 24 | No no write another fucking list every single time . |
| 25 | ‘ He bailed my father out of some financial difficulty a long time ago , ’ he said shortly . |
| 26 | Our own bulk chemical businesses vary between some which are very good , because most of the competition has abandoned the field , and some which are very bad , because they are in areas which are attracting new entrants the whole time , and moreover , new entrants who are seeking to compete in either a slow-growing or non-growing market . |
| 27 | Most private owners discovered the use of a tail and wing-tip dolly a long time ago , making it possible to tow out with a car single-handedly on most days . |
| 28 | ‘ There was a meeting of local conservatives a short time before Prime Minister John Major visited the province in April with Sir Patrick Feldon . |
| 29 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 30 | Labour 's Frank Cook predicted the North Tees Hospital Trust , which comes into effect next Wednesday ‘ despite opposition from medical and ancillary staff as well as the general public ’ will be brought back under local control a short time after the General Election . |