Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] time [modal v] " in BNC.
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1 | No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ? |
2 | The proposals , which for the first time would offer direct payments for such schemes , form part of a package of six new measures to protect and care for the countryside launched for consultation . |
3 | Middle-class visitors entering a work-house for the first time could be deeply shaken by the harsh indignity of the prison-like routine , the grotesque , despairing toothless faces , ‘ the forlorn , half-dazed aspect of these battered human hulks who once were young . ’ |
4 | Not for the first time could it be said that ‘ God blew with his wind ’ and kept England and Cornwall safe from foreign invasion . |
5 | At Lingfield blinkers fitted for the first time could enable Bob Jones ' Lookingforarainbow to win the Daily Star Challenge Final . |
6 | The infant death rate was still high enough , especially among the poor , for parents not yet to have become complacent ; meanwhile , the promise was held out , and for the first time could be kept , that babies could be successfully reared provided that medical advice was faithfully followed . |
7 | Coming onto a new series for the first time could be a daunting prospect even to the acting profession 's hardy perennials . |
8 | The need to prepare the economies for unemployment and social security provision for the first time will be the important issues . |
9 | And the fact that I will be playing under him as captain on an England tour for the first time will not stop me having dinner and drinking with him most nights . |
10 | To further accelerate its growth the society is to launch Llangollen Railway PLC in September which by the sale of shares to the public for the first time will push the line forward fairly quickly to Carrog in readiness for the final leg to Corwen . |
11 | For instance , many children when they draw a house for the first time will do their utmost to draw the four sides and the roof of the building all in one drawing , and they generally succeed in portraying three sides and the roof of the house , all laid out flat . |
12 | A visitor arriving in Zurich for the first time will almost certainly do so with a preconceived idea of a feverishly busy city where austere-faced financiers wearing dark suits hurry past in search of the next billion dollars , where bankers huddle together in back rooms like a secret society , a place resembling a web from the centre of which threads reach out to manipulate the money markets of the world , and everything is subordinate to profit . |
13 | He summarizes the kind of attitudes and assumptions towards religion which a majority of children when they arrive in school for the first time will be likely already to have assimilated . |
14 | The generation of stable bloodstream transformants for the first time will facilitate the study of gene function and expression during the trypanosome life cycle , and aid in the investigation of genetic exchange in these organisms . |
15 | Anyone seeing such works of sculpture for the first time can not fail to note the harmonious line described through the perfectly proportioned bodies of the men and women portrayed . |
16 | Having an attack of Cystitis for the first time can seem rather frightening , but do remember that it is not usually a serious threat to health . |
17 | Putting your feet into a pair of ski boots for the first time can be alarming . |
18 | Married women who are claiming a repayment for the first time should fill in form R95(D) attached to leaflet IR 112 and send it to their local tax office . |
19 | We feel that all doctors or other qualified individuals seeing a myocardial infarction for the first time should consider thrombolytic therapy as early as possible so that the maximum amount of myocardium can be salvaged . |
20 | Since the town was expanding at the turn of the century , the population for the earlier time would be a little less . |
21 | In 1385–6 Lewyn was superintending building works for the Crown at Berwick-on-Tweed , and about the same time may have been concerned with the great new donjon at Warkworth for the Earl of Northumberland . |
22 | Some continuity of personnel between the new and the old is often welcomed as the most effective means of preserving the loyalty of the clients and maybe the appointment of the sole practitioner or the senior partner of the acquired business as consultant to the new firm for a limited time will be considered . |
23 | done this job for a long time wo n't you ? |
24 | Therefore , a thin section remaining in the beam for a long time may show a decrease in luminescence intensity as ionic-bombardment and thermal diffusion take place . |
25 | Dogs which have lived in kennels for a long time can be particularly difficult to house-train successfully , although this is helped by the fact that they will only defecate about twice a day . |
26 | People who have been married apparently happily , for a long time can make you fed an outsider with just one private glance . |
27 | Before 18 months , a child wo n't recognise herself in the mirror and for a long time will describe herself in terms of attributes ( like smallness ) and her possessions . |
28 | Erm the views of the er of the subcommittee are that that this does appear to be er perhaps a practical solution er and at the moment , er we are looking to erm make some of the spaces , certainly in the Church Street car park erm short term , I E two hours , certainly so the people who are who are making shopping visits , or visits to the banks et cetera would get the lower car park and the the people who are staying for a longer time would be at the top . |
29 | Thirty-six hours from the relevant time would expire in the early hours of the morning ; then access to a solicitor would have to be permitted . |
30 | ( 2 ) Failure to deliver a decision within a reasonable time will be |