Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Wood relinquished the Chairmanship of RBIC , and RBIS , to Chris Pearson , Director of Private and Offshore Banking and Director , South of England in October 1992 when the rapid growth of Direct Line made greater demands on Peter 's time ; Norman , who had been due to retire at that time , was asked to stay on for two years to see the restructuring process completed . |
| 2 | You are free to cancel at any time . |
| 3 | In this context an assignment may be considered " terminated " , because it can not affect or be affected by the other process , and is free to terminate at any time . |
| 4 | Perhaps the internal strains within the authorities of a newly-reunited Germany — and the demands of public opinion in the old East — make any punitive measures against ex-Easterners peculiarly uncomfortable to promote at this time ( and Krabbe 's coach has been widely fingered as a luminary in East Germany 's old chemically-enhanced Sportkulur . ) |
| 5 | They are likely to flower at different times and the effect will be untidy . |
| 6 | The remaining colleges of higher education , approximately thirty in number , have their courses validated by the CNAA and , although the movement in this direction away from university validation has slowed down considerably , it is likely to continue for some time to come . |
| 7 | With some 15,500 outlets for their business , solicitors are likely to remain for some time the principal providers of legal services even if there is considerable expansion of alternatives to the use of solicitors for some legal work ( The Law Society , 1990 ) . |
| 8 | Under a fixed exchange rate a currency flow surplus is likely to persist for some time . |
| 9 | However , the amended agreement is not likely to appear for some time because , in September , the Publishers Association again appealed against the interstate decision . |
| 10 | CA has also set up a similar bundling agreement for CA-Unicenter with Sequent Computer Systems Inc , however , this version still has a lot of work to be done on it and is n't likely to appear until this time in 1993 . |
| 11 | It is very , very unfortunate to come at this time . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You 're welcome to come by any time . ’ |
| 13 | In some cultures there are still some established religious and social rituals surrounding death that help all the bereaved have a better understanding of how they are supposed to behave at certain times . |
| 14 | In planning ward staffing , the ward manager should start with a clear view of the number of staff she is likely to require at various times of the day . |
| 15 | The new republics are likely to settle for fixed times for elections , following the American model . |
| 16 | Russians are filling in some of the gaps in their lives by seeking out anything that was forbidden or hard to get in Soviet times . |
| 17 | Pearlin and his colleagues have discussed the effectiveness of commonly used coping responses to various chronic role strains of the sort likely to erupt at any time into major events ( Pearlin and Schooler , 1978 ; Pearlin et al. , 1981 ) . |
| 18 | Now that would be the normal peacetime lead time if we could accelerate that in industry and find some way of doing it then it may well be possible to do in quicker time than that . |
| 19 | Because you 're not , because you 're inside a lot , you do n't have to go out every day , you do n't , you do n't have anything very specific to do at different times during the day . |
| 20 | Oh yeah no problem and as Tony was saying music sessions they tend if the session is good to forget about closing time you know official closing time . |
| 21 | The system should be able to cope at all times with the workload resulting from continuous operation of seven dedicated user terminals , and occasional use of two user terminals for simple enquiries and for examining portions of text . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've got a lady at the moment who was able to paint at one time , quite successfully . |
| 23 | I subsequently wrote to you thanking you for this most generous offer and explaining that we wanted to use them as prizes in a raffle but were unable to proceed at that time . |
| 24 | Mr Fallon said many disabled people wrote to him concerned that they would not be able to shop at convenient times . |
| 25 | Soon it became clear that Sarah was seriously ill with rheumatic fever and would not be able to work for some time , and another girl , Hetty , was engaged temporarily . |
| 26 | Instead , holdings and dealings would be recorded electronically in an account , corresponding to a bank account , with one of a number of ‘ account operators , ’ linked to TAURUS , from whom shareholders would be able to obtain at any time documentary evidence of the state of their accounts . |
| 27 | ‘ I asked if you also were to be told but mama said nay — you are younger than myself , she said , and are unlikely to wed for some time . |
| 28 | Florence and Rome are stunning to visit at any time of the year — but in the winter they have a charm of their own . |
| 29 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 30 | It is also helpful to be able to refer at any time to a ‘ map ’ of the pathways followed and nodes visited in the course of a particular trip through ‘ hyperspace ’ . |