Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had been looking for a lover — I admit my husband 's fortunes were not at their brightest , and my friendship with the Philosopher was a little turbulent at that time — then I should not have chosen Gustave . |
| 2 | If a teenager has been feeling acutely depressed for some time , then it may only take a trigger such as exams , to tip her over the edge ( suicide is the third most common cause of death among the under 25s , and the peak months are April to July ) . |
| 3 | This proves that the geomantic tradition was still very much alive at that time , supported by alchemists and in is case by the bull priests . |
| 4 | ‘ I was obviously low at that time and needed a pick-up . |
| 5 | And it gave lots and lots of work to our colleagues and you know , when , when I say that er I think I made a comment that at that time , er had made the , the , the comment about er the winds of change and that er you know we were never better off , well really the unemployment figures were so low at that time that it 's to my mind you know , a truism . |
| 6 | Please give me some hope , ’ he urged , ‘ because , apart from the certainty in my heart that miluji të , I have never been so uncertain , so apprehensive at any time in my life . ’ |
| 7 | It was all so different from this time last year , when the sun shone brightly and millions crammed sands from Bournemouth to Blackpool . |
| 8 | The world of athletics had changed so much in that time , and has changed since 1980 . |
| 9 | Because this programme tried to do so much in limited time , it seemed to some observers to be somewhat thin or superficial . |
| 10 | It is highly evocative of that time in everyone 's life when a mortgage meant nothing , music was all and your friends could be as mental as barking hens . |
| 11 | This was not so easy at that time as the crewing arrangements were very much of a closed shop . |
| 12 | ‘ And the traffic will be so congested at this time of afternoon , you 'll hardly get down the High at all , and it 's clouding over , and Felicity should acclimatize herself before she goes out , particularly since Magdalen is so cold at this time of — ’ |
| 13 | Furthermore , it is so cold during this time of the year that , without heating , patients do not want to be admitted . |
| 14 | ‘ I was so tired by that time that all I could do was sit in a deck-chair on the sea-front and sleep all day , but it was enough . ’ |
| 15 | Nobody wanted to be cruel enough to hurt me because they thought I was so vulnerable at that time and I really wish I 'd been told that I looked disgusting ! |
| 16 | But then I was only 17 at that time . |
| 17 | I had taken Miss Senga into Hyde Park with the intention of showing her some of the winter birds , and the park is so beautiful at this time of the year , what with the snow piled up . " |
| 18 | DO N'T FORGET Mice can be especially damaging at this time of year . |
| 19 | Patent law was so loose at that time that the patent covered all kinds of steam engine . |
| 20 | Er we have er inherited a problem of over-forecasting perhaps in the seventies , with our first structure plans in the sense that the er employment was forecast to be much higher at that time . |
| 21 | I never expected it to be so hot at this time of the year and I did n't know there was a pool . |
| 22 | Paviour 's uneasiness and distaste had grown so palpable by this time that his rigid bones looked tensed to breaking point . |
| 23 | With my cousin Emka , I wandered through the oak woods gathering wild flowers — the cyclamens in which the Kras is so abundant at that time of year . |
| 24 | Also lacking through routes , as well as extending over seventy miles , Sussex has always been administered in two divisions with two county towns , of which the second , Lewes , was similar in size to Chichester , though less prosperous at this time in having far fewer affluent burgesses and no well-paid artificers . |
| 25 | The effort to deliberately manage culture is necessarily expensive of managerial time . |
| 26 | Machine tools of its size and accuracy were so rare at that time that it could earn £10 a day , and it was Clement 's principal source of income for ten years . |
| 27 | As Jeffery points out , this meant that the legal category was unacceptable since it was too obviously variable over different time periods and between different societies . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she apologised breathlessly , so bemused by that time that she had n't a clue what she was apologising for . |
| 29 | ‘ And the traffic will be so congested at this time of afternoon , you 'll hardly get down the High at all , and it 's clouding over , and Felicity should acclimatize herself before she goes out , particularly since Magdalen is so cold at this time of — ’ |
| 30 | phrases such as ‘ Korea is a dagger pointed at the heart of Japan ’ were commonly used to denote Korea 's strategic significance , and of all the varying motivations governing Japanese policy in Asia it was the issue of national defence which was most crucial at this time . |