Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any sections not reported clear by the time of the arrival of the Fire Service units will result in the Fire Service undertaking to search such areas as an immediate priority . |
| 2 | They have occupied much of the time of the higher courts but are on the margins of land law , which traditionally focuses on the market-place and the importance of documentation as the root of title . |
| 3 | If the current I1 may be considered constant during the time unc then we are entitled to talk about slow variation . |
| 4 | The instruments sometimes steamed up , the revcounter failed altogether and the carpet in both footwells had come adrift by the time the car had reached the end of its test . |
| 5 | This was considered revolutionary at the time it was written ( 1955 ) , but case study after case study elsewhere in the country now suggest the same basic pattern of large estates . |
| 6 | Existing policies keep most people occupied most of the time . |
| 7 | Frank was withdrawn much of the time , often sitting for hours with his blindfold down . |
| 8 | Er and it was felt appropriate at the time that that should be indicated on the T the key diagram to be to be helpful more than nothing else . |
| 9 | This has enabled DCM to eradicate duplicated overheads — 38 staff were made redundant at the time , although DCM has since taken on another 15 . |
| 10 | Further information will be made available nearer the time . |
| 11 | Bodies are shaped several at a time and come off the machine almost ready to finish . |
| 12 | Swan had made half-a-million by the time he was thirty , he had chaired the Planning Committee of the Arden District Council for the past ten years , and he was not the sort to give in easily . |
| 13 | If the draftsman wishes to create a lease for a period that can not be made certain at the time of the demise the only way is to express it as being granted for a fixed term subject to a power to break at the expiry of the period . |
| 14 | The stimuli to be used in the test phase were presented two at a time and the subjects were asked to describe the pair as ‘ same ’ or ‘ different ’ as appropriate . |
| 15 | Even in the situations where it is appropriate , Creole will only be used some of the time — in fact , a very small proportion of the time , if my informants and their families are typical . |
| 16 | Furthermore , I think there is a problem for Christians today in thinking in terms of this non-gendered cosmic Christ which forms the key to her Christology ( and I am sure I should have thought this at the time when I counted myself a Christian ) . |
| 17 | Jessica 's father , like most men in his position in the Province , was watched much of the time , kept an eye on , lightly guarded . |
| 18 | This is his sixteenth over , two for seventeen with nine maidens so far , bowling from the far end , the nursery end with a cluster of fielders , you 've got a silly point and a short leg and a slip and he 's got er , at the moment four men on the leg side as he 's had most of the time and five on the off , and now a slight adjustment , we 're gon na have an extra one around the batsman . |
| 19 | Thus whereas the bare infinitive allows for the incidence of its event to a support situated within the confines of event time , the mechanism of incidence provided for by the verb form itself is inoperative when called upon express an incidence to a support situated prior to the time contained in the event . |
| 20 | It seemed he had become confused over the time I 'd said I 'd pick him up , although it was always the same , and Miss Prescott thought he was a little agitated and so brought him round herself . |
| 21 | The problem of drawing a legal line between moral outrage and individual freedom has become intractable at a time when one person 's obscenity is another person 's bedtime reading . |
| 22 | And , anyway , doing the band had become less of a time thing , more a psychological matter of getting down to writing . |
| 23 | It is probable that the linguistic differentiation which separates the South Slavs from the Western Slavs ( Poles , Czechs , Slovaks ) and the Eastern Slavs ( Russians , Bielorussians , Ukrainians ) had not become apparent at the time of the migration . |
| 24 | In this I was happily to be proved wrong , but who could have known that at the time ? |
| 25 | A rum evolution , Alix had often thought , though it had not seemed strange at the time : what had then seemed strange , in her girlhood , had been her parents ' quaint socialist ideals , which had caused her such embarrassment , and , partly because of that embarrassment , had inspired in her such undeviating loyalty . |
| 26 | Thus , two new launches had proved possible at a time when new dailies were generally still unpractical . |
| 27 | The Supreme Court could find no proof that Kopp had known this at the time she made the call . |
| 28 | As Coleman had been at pains to point this out before taking on the DEA assignment , he could hardly disagree , but the risk had seemed acceptable at the time and he had taken particular care to underline his academic credentials whenever he met Hurley 's people . |
| 29 | The search for Fedorov and Louise Müller , which had seemed all-important at the time , had been overtaken by weightier events . |
| 30 | Douglas had spent much of the time explaining to the table the intricacies of the plot of his next novel ; Leon Brittan had been rather short with him . |