Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike Descartes , who felt the need to prove their existence , and Malebranche , who was certain he could not , Locke simply had no doubt that material things existed and caused our ideas : ‘ The actual receiving of ideas from without … makes us know , that something doth exist at that time without us , which causes that idea in us . ’ |
| 2 | They have two natural gaits the gentle , lolloping , forward movement of the warren on a summer evening and the lightning dash for cover that every human has seen at some time or other . |
| 3 | The derogation , which applies to all cereals intervened after November 1 , puts UK farmers on a par with their counterparts in northern Europe where the relaxation has applied for some time . |
| 4 | NCLE has argued for some time that schools should have coordinated policies on language as a medium for learning and languages as subjects . |
| 5 | The Government has argued for some time now that we live in a parliamentary democracy and that all decisions on behalf of the people will be made by Parliament . |
| 6 | The Scottish Dairy Trade Federation has said for some time it is not happy with that . |
| 7 | Whether society has the right to determine its own morality is a debate which has raged for some time . |
| 8 | Angling for the deal that it has sought for some time now , UK firm IXI Ltd , Cambridge , is starting to cast groundbait all over the water in an attempt to land its catch . |
| 9 | The V8 contains every engineering innovation Audi has made in that time : four-wheel drive , Procon-Ten , galvanised bodywork , flush glass , multi-valve combustion and an exhaust catalyst . |
| 10 | Torrance almost had to pull out of the Lancome Trophy at St Nom La Bretesche when a foot disorder he has had for some time flared up during the final round . |
| 11 | Rigoberta Menchu has lived in exile in Mexico for the past 11 years , yet the only weapons she has used in that time have been words . |
| 12 | Because star formation and hence the formation of neutron stars by supernova collapse in NGC6342 ceased long ago , the apparent youth of the pulsar suggests that a major event has occurred at some time during the last 10Myr . |
| 13 | It 's what everyone has to do at some time — it 's called taking responsibility for yourself . |
| 14 | The International Stock Exchange has called for more time to implement the changes but so far it has had little success . |
| 15 | Pick Systems Inc has recognised for some time that it will have to concentrate on the database side of Pick 's personality in order to survive , but currently only around 40% of sales comes from Pick for Unix , with a few percent going to the MD-DOS implementation and the native Intel Corp iAPX-86 implementation accounting for the biggest part of the business . |
| 16 | Neither has spoken for some time . |
| 17 | She has sunk by that time . |
| 18 | In view of everything that has happened since that time , this distinction is important . |
| 19 | A great deal has happened in that time and I have enjoyed every minute of it . |
| 20 | However , inner-city funding introduced by Labour in the late 1970s began the process , which has continued since that time , of identifying and ranking authorities . |
| 21 | The search for such dating methods has continued for some time , but in the second half of this century several methods have been developed , which provide much better ways of dating some sites and finds . |
| 22 | He said yesterday that as Mr Dignum spent most of his time looking after the stores , which include the troubled Silo chain in America , the move ‘ reflects the reality of the situation which has existed for some time ’ . |
| 23 | Its format has changed over that time , quite a bit , because like any quality system , it 's subject to constant review . |
| 24 | March wind doth blow for some time to come , according to the coastguard , and believe me it blows hellish hard round Gullholm . ’ |
| 25 | Settling down because wood keeps moving for some time . |
| 26 | Wander down medieval alleys and cross a maze of canals to enjoy this bewitching Italian city that seems to belong to another time . |
| 27 | No further digestion appears to occur after this time suggesting that the Eco K enzyme has no turnover and remains bound to the substrate [ 5 , 6 , 34 ] . |
| 28 | For its part Thames Water welcomed the report , but spokesman Tom Curtin says the company 's been acting on the sorts of things it 's recommended for some time . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's something he 's had for some time , but I was always going to play him despite the trouble and the fact he 's one booking away from a ban . ’ |
| 30 | Yeah I know but nothing 's happened since that time to change what we originally agreed |