Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] time [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But arguing for the additional time and money and confronting the critics transformed a potential failure into a ringing success . |
| 2 | Universities are ready to go for the big time and exploit their earning capacity in a way they have n't in the past . |
| 3 | The Direct Tableware Company sales director Roger Young agrees that it will be next spring before any real growth in catering occurs , but he thinks there might be a slight upturn next month in the top-up business : ‘ It 's heading for the busy time and you ca n't serve customers without knives and forks . ’ |
| 4 | It was what she saw as the excessive time and attention given to the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians which she objected to most strongly , feeling that it would only be a matter of time before the Governors took action to alter the position . |
| 5 | If one accepts the story of Molla Yegan 's bringing Molla Gurani to the Ottoman court-and there seems no reason not to-then on the basis of what appears to be the fairly firm evidence for this part of Molla Gurani 's career , Molla Yegan 's return from his journey can not be dated earlier than 845/1441–2 ; and on the reasonable assumption that the purpose of Molla Yegan 's journey was to make the pilgrimage , it seems entirely likely that it was in the year 844/1440–1 , the same year that Molla Gurani made his abortive pilgrimage , that Molla Yegan also performed the hajj and that the two met somewhere after that pilgrimage , though clear information about the actual time and place of their meeting is entirely lacking . |
| 6 | In 1940 he had been quite prepared , if need be , to serve in a dangerous capacity in the ranks because he felt he could be more useful in such a rôle at that critical moment in the country 's affairs , rather than go through the extra time and training there and then for a commission . |
| 7 | Whatever may be the attitude of any individual teacher , if s/he does not receive adequate support from the school in implementing change , s/he is likely to give up , or decide that the innovation is not worth the extra time and energy required . |
| 8 | Is the certificate worth the extra time and considerable effort involved on top of implementing a TQM programme ? |
| 9 | If this is not done a disillusioned employee may well leave after a short time and you will have to repeat the expensive and disruptive process of interviewing all over again . |
| 10 | The proposed courses for the next term confirm that the college will be only using fifty percent of the available time and space for eight months of the year . |
| 11 | This is an attractive idea , but for most adults the goal of learning through communicating naturally in the language throughout the day will , sadly , never be a practical one ; we have to continue to make use of something like formal classroom teaching because of the limited time and resources available . |
| 12 | The investment is measured in terms of the irrecoverable time and expenses involved in the learning process . |
| 13 | All knowledge , including that about social life , is a product of a specific time and place , both a particular set of social conditions and a particular way of thinking about society . |
| 14 | ‘ I am hopeful of a good time but there are a lot of factors which influence the outcome of a marathon including the weather and , most importantly , how a runner feels on the day . |
| 15 | It took a hell of a long time but learn we did . |
| 16 | Of the remaining 77 , only eight had ever offered a ‘ substantial ’ programme of such work ; this was a relatively unexacting definition , requiring only a written needs assessment and the employment of a whole time or part time worker with a specific remit for this work . |
| 17 | This lucid and candid prose , strong in the detail of a particular time and place , often ignores , and can on occasion seem to depart from , the sense of the literature it embodies . |
| 18 | Erm , and to look at the stories which are of a different time but are still relevant to our time and place , they have a , have a message for us , even though they were set a hundred years ago , they 've still got something to say us , so I think that 's an area we need to explore . |
| 19 | Sometimes it is interesting to play speculative games by projecting historical events and characters forward or backward in time in order to view them in the context of a different time or place . |
| 20 | If you am 18-24 , male , like a fun time and love music , I 'd like to hear from you ! |
| 21 | A worker-directed study conducted in the mid-1970s considered as temporary workers all who had a job which was available only for a limited time and all who were themselves available for their jobs for only a limited period of time . |
| 22 | You will take one of these blocks you will wet it for a certain time and you |
| 23 | The plaintiff 's declaration alleged that he was owner of the Queen 's Theatre , that he had contracted with Johanna Wagner , a famous operatic singer , to perform exclusively in the theatre for a certain time and that the defendant , owner of a rival theatre , wishing himself to obtain Miss Wagner 's services ‘ knowing the premises and maliciously intending to injure the plaintiff … enticed and persuaded [ her ] to refuse to perform . ’ |
| 24 | Yesterday he rang the bell for a long time but no point in opening the door . |
| 25 | But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’ |
| 26 | I have n't been happy for a long time but now I think I 'm going to be . ’ |
| 27 | He said : ‘ I have known Graham for a long time but there will be no sentiment when he picks the England team . |
| 28 | Metal whiskers of this kind had been known of , in a general sort of way , for a long time but had been regarded as a nuisance or a curiosity . |
| 29 | ‘ It is something that tends to live with you for a long time but at least we now have the chance to put the record straight and show that we , too , can play a bit . |
| 30 | Sometimes truth may be suppressed for a long time but while it is imprisoned it gathers to itself more and more power so that on the day that it is finally released it explodes , blowing everything asunder . |