Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | How or why the interchange of decorative elements was carried out is more difficult to understand ; the moulds for casting the brooches may have been made with models constituting separate elements of the decoration of the brooches , or entirely remodelled each time a brooch was made , with variations . |
| 2 | In 23 patients ( group A ) biliary tract calculi were present either at the time of diagnosis ( 14 patients ) ( Fig 1 ) or subsequently developed some time after the diagnosis of sclerosing cholangitis had been made ( nine patients ) . |
| 3 | The prediction was that when a subject 's attention had been focused on the acted-upon it would be easier ( and so take less time ) to produce a passive , whereas an active would be easier when the preamble concerned the actor . |
| 4 | It could reach both upwards and downwards to pluck vegetation from all directions on a vast scale , and so lost little time ( or energy ) moving about . |
| 5 | Sometimes , mothers find it necessary to work ( mainly in service industries ) and so have little time to spend with the children . |
| 6 | On top of that Sumner practically accused Microsoft of biasing the test parameters in favour of Word and not allowing enough time for the testers to fully explore the respective packages . |
| 7 | A new assistant wo n't always be a key worker ( see page 51 ) straight away and usually spends some time with two or three units or areas of the house to get to know different ways of doing things and the needs of different residents . |
| 8 | Outside Colombo the force was theoretically under the control of government agents who had many other duties and usually spared little time for the police . |
| 9 | In 1904 he sold part of his collection of eighteenth-century English water-colours to ( Sir ) Edward Marsh [ q.v. ] and thereafter devoted much time to his Botticelli studies , from 1905 living mostly in Florence , where he bought and restored an old palazzo , which became the Museo Horne after his death . |
| 10 | It was damaged and partly rebuilt several times until , in the nineteenth century , it was restored in neo-Gothic style . |
| 11 | Boys were more often distracted , and also spent more time waiting for attention from their teachers . |
| 12 | Tested in isolation with selected data and also run many times . |
| 13 | ‘ I was only asking why you waste so much time stealing stuff you ca n't eat and then waste more time stealing dogs when you could steal and eat at the same time , as it were . ’ |
| 14 | Alternatively you could read it and then spend some time thinking about it ! |
| 15 | ‘ How do I look ? ’ he questioned , and almost smiled that time as he followed on , ‘ No , do n't answer that ! |
| 16 | The story of the abrupt curtailment of life in Pompeii by the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the subsequent preservation of the city , not only its architecture but of the stuff of life itself — bread , utensils , eggs and bodies of humans , dogs and birds — through the protection of its coating of lava and ash is a well known one and has been fully and vividly recounted many times from the eye-witness story of Pliny himself to the present day . |
| 17 | He was acquitted , but virtually denied any time for family or politics during those five years . |