Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The six Concerti on this interesting release were published in 1742 , and were rearranged and reprinted many times , the composer actually rearranging the Sixth Concerto in an edition published 33 years later , such was its popularity . |
| 2 | In the fifth century Rome was attacked and sacked three times . |
| 3 | It has been rebuilt and readorned many times , and most centuries from the fourth to the twentieth — when it had to be largely rebuilt after the Second World War — have contributed to it ; it is a supreme symbol of continuity . |
| 4 | One of the most deliberate of these editorial tempo relationships occurs in ‘ Pleni sunt coeli et terra majestatis gloriae tuae ’ where the text at minim=60 is preceded and followed each time by the orchestral ‘ fanfares ’ at double speed , and this breakneck tempo is then adopted for the remainder of the movement ( for the unfortunate apostles , prophets and martyrs ) until the inevitable rallentando at the end . |
| 5 | In order to study effectively you need to be organised and to put sufficient time aside to learn and to reflect . |
| 6 | John Major must have pondered that question several times in past months as various Cabinet ministers depended on his support after making curious decisions on public or private issues . |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman knows that we have answered that point many times , but I can not let it pass . |
| 8 | The bird emerged , bowed and cuckooed seven times . |
| 9 | Each point is clearly and simply made and reinforced seven times . |
| 10 | This guidebook was first published in 1959 , and it has been revised and reprinted several times since , the present copy being a revised impression of the 1981 edition . |
| 11 | The church has been jarred and cracked , shaken and split more times than historians have been able to count . |
| 12 | With the options now open to couples , commitments and covenants will need to be renegotiated and re-formulated many times in the course of a lifetime as family groups move through different stages . |
| 13 | His discussion paper on the subject had now been drafted and redrafted several times . |
| 14 | The reasoning behind it being that she would not be able to come to terms with the notion of her mother being dead , so by removing her from the place where the tragedy had occurred and allowing enough time to pass , she would better be able to come to terms with her loss . |
| 15 | In fact , while an oil cargo could be sold and resold several times a day under the right market conditions , very few North Atlantic or Baltic general cargo shipments are sold on the water . |
| 16 | With its broad and open frontiers , Russia is a country that has been invaded and occupied many times by outside powers . |
| 17 | Other aspects of packaging may emphasise the convenience of the pack , as for example in cigarette packets which may be opened and reopened several times , or beer cans , which can be opened safely by pulling a ring . |
| 18 | I mean this has been worn and washed many times for Charlotte . |
| 19 | Mother said that Aunt Bessie was fond of telling one story about Thomas Isaac , recalling the occasion when he was asked to say grace before breakfast one morning and steadfastly refused although commanded several times by his father . |
| 20 | Once covered in a tropical moist forest with rich fauna , A Luoi and A Sau valley , 60km long and between three and six kilometres wide , was defoliated and napalmed many times . |
| 21 | In maths and language they were less distracted and spent more time on work and routine activities , although in art the pattern was reversed : older children were more often distracted and did less work . |
| 22 | In classrooms where there were two adults , children were generally less distracted and spent more time working than in classrooms where there was only one . |
| 23 | The pond must be carefully scrubbed and rinsed several times before putting the fish back . |
| 24 | ‘ I have already been asked that question several times under druggings of Veritas . |
| 25 | Whilst the 60MHz iteration ca n't be clocked any faster , the 66MHz mask is designed to go to 100MHz and it is this part , touted as providing two-to-three times the performance of the 80486 , which Intel will use as a springboard for the launch of other Pentium family members — see back page . |
| 26 | When Marsh was dumped it did not concern him that as Australian captain anything he said or did might be misconstrued or magnified many times over . |
| 27 | The lysate was mixed with glutathione agarose beads at room temperature for 40 minutes , unbound proteins removed and washed three times in 10 mls lysis buffer . |
| 28 | The talent he has encouraged and given much time and effort to , includes the 1986 Club Champion , 20-year-old Simon Barrington who was twice Junior Champion ; Michael Orris , the Joint Course record holder and County Alliance player ; Guy Phillips , still 17 , the Junior Champion and Captain ( handicap 5 ) and who whilst competing in the Daily Express Ford qualifying round at Royal Mid-Surrey in 1986 played to level par and went on to play in the finals in Spain ) ; Henry Bareham , also handicap 5 , who played for English Schools and Graham Booth , the Thames Valley League Junior Champion . |
| 29 | The night of horror is wonderfully suggested in half-a-dozen groups , beautifully related in the surface-design but episodically conceived and covering different times ( Astyanax alive and dead ) . |
| 30 | The likelihood , indeed , is that they would have been repeated and rehearsed many times ( 'now that 's a very good point you 're making there — I wonder if you could conceivably contrive to put it a little more precisely' ) . |