Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose that the contract contains a simple time limit clause such as : The Buyer will notify the Seller of any claim it may have against the Seller for breach of contract within three days of delivery and that the seller delivers short of the required quantity and the goods are later found to suffer from a latent defect . |
| 2 | Note that the cavity feedback involves a finite time delay , of order in certain circumstances this enables the Maxwell-Bloch equations ( required to relate E ( L , t + L/c ) to E ( 0 , t ) ) plus cavity boundary conditions , to be expressed as a discrete mapping in steps of tR — this has been extensively studied in the context of passive resonators , and will be elaborated below . |
| 3 | The race build up has been disrupted by the controversy over an attempt to impose a minimum time limit of 1hr 50min , because of road closures . |
| 4 | The prospect of another two years of study seemed a long time . |
| 5 | The prospect of another two years of study seemed a long time . |
| 6 | The quantitative details of classical electromagnetism yield an estimated time of about 10 -8 seconds for this collapse to occur . |
| 7 | The tobacco industry plans a long time ahead . |
| 8 | But they did n't reckon with her burning ambition to win a third time . |
| 9 | The deal marks the first time a Test match will be shown live , in full , from the sub-continent . |
| 10 | The pig spent the whole time being smacked to and fro , hence ‘ piggie in the middle ’ . |
| 11 | The seal spent a long time underwater , thinking . |
| 12 | This trend will be most prevalent among larger companies that find downsizing takes a long time due to the complexity of their computing environment . |
| 13 | This trend will be most prevelant among larger companies that find downsizing takes a long time due to the complexity of their computing environment . |
| 14 | I go out all day to college having a lovely time while you stay at home making yourself ill . |
| 15 | A customer returns a skirt because the zip broke the first time she wore it . |
| 16 | It seemed to Lefevre that the splash took a long time in coming . |
| 17 | They had formulated some vague ideas which would let them use this effect to shorten the perceived time it took to play the games they had to play , but the castle clocks , or perhaps the castle itself , seemed unwilling to cooperate . |
| 18 | You 're the only person there wearing the ball gown , you 're the only person there getting their photograph taken a hundred times over |
| 19 | Although each institutional investor may still only own a very small percentage of the issued share capital of the company , nevertheless , they have the requisite skills to monitor management effectively , and can act collectively to exert pressure on the managers of the company , thereby overcoming the problem that there is little incentive for the individual shareholder to spend the necessary time and money to inform himself of and perhaps challenge the actions of the directors as the managers of the company . |
| 20 | The omission of the verb gives an immediacy which would be missing from a construction such as It is a virgin scene ( where the present tense is a direct attempt to make a coding time and content time the same ) . |
| 21 | Most parents graduate to giving one warning after the initial command so that the child has a little time in which to respond but parents need to be very careful that they do n't lapse into nagging to get the child to comply again . |
| 22 | You can also have the prompt show the current time and date , by using PROMPT $D$T$G |
| 23 | ‘ The coach arrived a long time ago ! |
| 24 | Though tragically killed in a recent motorbike accident , Madra was an undisputed maestro of the art , as well as an easy and informative friend whom I had known for some time , so it was a shock to witness the epic genius which came through him , and the transformation which both he and his audience underwent in that open village square the first time I saw him perform . |
| 25 | If the WC cistern takes a long time to fill , it is possible that a high-pressure type of ballvalve has been fitted instead of a low-pressure type ( page 38 ) or that there is dirt in the valve orifice . |
| 26 | The girl spent a long time wondering whether she could pluck up courage to mention she 'd thought of going to the Swimming Gala if her mother really felt there was nothing she could do . |
| 27 | er course work to do the whole time . |
| 28 | The 1988–89 Committee spent a long time agonising over the problem of how to keep the broadcasters at arms length , so that their editors would not be able to provide the signal in ways that might be journalistically attractive but would be repugnant to Members . |
| 29 | Yes , I hope so too , but , I have the feeling that the next , the next time we looked I do n't remember it having green peddles the first time you found it |
| 30 | Navratilova 's exit marked the first time no American woman had reached the quarter-finals of the US Open since women began playing in the tournament in 1887 . |