Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Allen : Will the Hon. Gentleman consider using some of the time of those operators for the installation of a fax machine which could be used collectively by right Hon. and Hon. Members rather than duplicating many times a facility that could be provided and serviced by one additional member of staff , or even by current members of stall ? |
| 2 | The interviewer is Peter Hayter , an owlish Friar Tuck figure who seems to be troubled by itching much of the time and who uses ‘ I mean ’ as frequently as commas . |
| 3 | I was also becoming frustrated with the time I had to spend on commercial projects at BRM . |
| 4 | In 18 patients the operation had been a two stage procedure with a covering ileostomy being closed some three months after primary surgery while in five patients a one stage restorative proctocolectomy with ileal reservoir was performed with the ileal reservoir becoming functional at the time of proctocolectomy . |
| 5 | From Llewellyn-Jones ' ( 1981a , b ) findings , there must be a question as to whether BSL interpreting is actually occurring most of the time . |
| 6 | Rather , I settle for a balanced , rounded style of dressing most of the time , more Dougie Heywood than Tommy Nutter . |
| 7 | We were n't , I now realise by doing the sums , badly off My father paid the rent , all the bills , gave us our pocket money , and a fixed sum of f7 a week housekeeping money quite a lot in the late 1950s — went on being handed over every Friday until his death , even when estrangement was obvious , and he was living most of the time with someone else . |
| 8 | Now , the government has shifted the focus of curriculum planning from availability ( the options system ) to entitlement , and has unwittingly ensured ( by filling most of the time available with the statutory curriculum ) that the dimensions , skills and themes of this entitlement can be met most easily inside the foundation subjects , and not outside them . |
| 9 | Joan is growing old for the time being . |
| 10 | Until 1939 internal dissension remained characteristic of the Labour Party , with agitations against Fascism and the National Government 's foreign policy occupying much of the time and energy of the active Party member . |
| 11 | It was going dark by the time the shepherd and his son shed their ragged leather milking jackets and carried two buckets each up the stone steps to the kitchen , followed by the two carabinieri . |
| 12 | United , leading 3-0 at the time , conceded two goals at the final whistle . |
| 13 | Although he has yet to win since his comeback , The Committee 's performances have been improving most of the time . |
| 14 | ‘ But I do n't know where I 'm heading most of the time and there just was n't time to be together . |
| 15 | You can just imagine what it would be like if a child was actually wearing this at the time of ignition . |
| 16 | So is Tony gon na be staying awake until the time that you finish there ? |
| 17 | The tradition of Anglo-Austrian co-operation against France , wearing thin in the time of Walpole and strained unbearably by the peace settlement of 1748 , was also submerged by the events of the 1750s . |
| 18 | I hesitate to intervene again , as the hon. Gentleman is getting near to the time left for my contribution . |
| 19 | The swimming was n't very good ; the whole place stank of sardines , and the noble castle turned out to be a youth hostel ; also there was a forty-mile-an-hour gale blowing much of the time . |
| 20 | For the production crew , filming the six-part series meant spending much of the time crawling around on the floor . |
| 21 | I was dancing much of the time on the wedding day . |
| 22 | And I did have a splendid evening , spending most of the time with a red haired sergeant who seemed to appreciate my sense of humour — in fact , I thought we were getting on so well that I was disappointed when the evening ended and he did n't make any arrangements to see me again . |
| 23 | He had been there a few weeks , suffering most of the time from frostbite after thirty hours in a dinghy in the Atlantic . |
| 24 | ‘ I could n't hear what they were saying most of the time , ’ Omi said , as Erika ran her eye down the list of calls written in Omi 's shaky , old-fashioned script . |
| 25 | There is still much that we need to know about HIV and AIDS , and we are all learning all of the time . |
| 26 | To is consequently used in the infinitive of reaction to evoke the support of the infinitive as characterized by a disposition arising prior to the time of realization of what the infinitive denotes . |
| 27 | That woman was thinking all of the time . |
| 28 | They need information about what constitutes and causes success or failure within a particular domain , as well as strategies for detecting this at the time of the selection . |
| 29 | Many graduates proceed to research posts in universities , often working much of the time in international laboratories , such as CERN in Geneva . |
| 30 | From Ajaccio they travelled by bus to Porto Vecchio , Minton sleeping much of the time with his mouth open and head lolling against Ross 's shoulder . |