Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Computerisation , although established for some time in sales and administration , has been introduced to Production Control . |
| 2 | There is clear advantage — in terms of time use — in prescribing drugs rather than engaging in more time consuming counselling , or confronting the social origins of the problems . |
| 3 | THE annual rate of inflation was reduced by more than half during the three Conservative administrations after May , 1979 , but unemployment more than doubled during that time . |
| 4 | ( 3 ) Subject to the following subsections , a person ( here referred to as ‘ the defendant ’ ) is answerable to the child if he was liable in tort to the parent or would , if sued in due time , have been so ; and it is no answer that there could not have been such liability because the parent suffered no actionable injury , if there was a breach of legal duty which , accompanied by injury , would have given rise to the liability . … |
| 5 | Parsley is hardy and can be sown outdoors in March , but takes several weeks to germinate if sown at that time in cool temperate regions , hence , it has earnt itself the reputation of needing " to go to the Devil seven times and back " before it will sprout . |
| 6 | Even if displaced through three time zones eastwards , it would still infer it was over the Atlantic , and home in the wrong direction . |
| 7 | Nor is there any reason to think that claims based on private law rights will not sometimes hold up public programmes if they are allowed to be brought after the short time-limit in Order 53 ; or that claims based on public law rights will necessarily cause trouble if brought after that time limit has expired . |
| 8 | The root is least tenacious in early spring and easiest to dig up completely , and if removed at this time , will prevent the further problem of spreading by seed later in the season . |
| 9 | The largest group of congenital anomalies are congenital abnormalities ( or malformations ) , defined as structural defects present at birth , whether detected at that time or not . |
| 10 | Ah but so did I and I did nothing but write during that time but I 've never known and everything I 've said about that is true , has turned out to be true . |
| 11 | Even after having done the week 's shopping en route , I was back at Shellerton House as promised in good time for Tremayne to drive his Volvo to Newbury races . |
| 12 | Such unemployment as exists at any time is due wholly to the frictional resistances [ which ] prevent wage and price adjustments being made instantaneously . |
| 13 | If at a time before the end of the relevant period any property ceases to be property subject to a reservation , the donor shall be treated for the purposes of the inheritance tax legislation as having at that time made a disposition of the property by way of a potentially exempt transfer ( s102(3) and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 14 | As opposed to simple time which is ordinary single beats . |
| 15 | This 100 ( or such lesser number as existed at any time ) were to elect 28 of their number to sit in the new House . |