Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Existing policies keep most people occupied most of the time . |
| 3 | Frank was withdrawn much of the time , often sitting for hours with his blindfold down . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Jessica 's father , like most men in his position in the Province , was watched much of the time , kept an eye on , lightly guarded . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Possibly because everything was so new and different that the impressions could not be fully absorbed , and also perhaps because I was tired most of the time . |
| 9 | I had a vague impression of their father but he had spent most of the time with his head in his hands . |
| 10 | She had spent most of the time upstairs trying to look more than OK , and had despised herself all the while for even trying . |
| 11 | On the other side of the coin , we would expect that those features of the Creole which ( a ) are salient and ( b ) do not present the speaker with any special difficulties of the sort involved in /r/-insertion , will be successfully imitated most of the time . |
| 12 | At the other extreme is the stance taken on the MoD 's continuing tenure , which insists that it is not proper that the public continue to be excluded some of the time from all , and all of the time from some , of the finest coastal scenery in the British Isles . |
| 13 | Of course I failed on all counts and so I was ignored most of the time — passed over . |
| 14 | During infancy children tend to be kept most of the time in the small , dark interior of their hut , where they are rarely allowed to crawl on the floor , rarely spoken to or played with ( though always kept near the mother ) , and where few objects for play are available . |
| 15 | My eyes were shut most of the time now as I blundered round the park and when I opened them a red mist swirled . |
| 16 | That 's not a bridge that 's marked on the map , it 's a causeway that 's covered most of the time . |