Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | EIB loans are usually made in the form of a ‘ cocktail ’ of several currencies , depending upon the currencies which the Bank has available at the time of the loan . |
| 2 | Always have your car or front door keys ready by the time you need them . |
| 3 | You can group sounds 12 at a time into banks , or ‘ drumkits ’ and the RY10 comes with 15 preset banks . |
| 4 | You can group sounds 12 at a time into banks , or ‘ drumkits ’ and the RY10 comes with 15 preset banks . |
| 5 | He suffers much of the time with sore feet ( furunculosis ) which unfortunately makes him lame . |
| 6 | He left most of his meal , and seemed uninterested in any of the conversation she attempted , answering in monosyllables most of the time . |
| 7 | Installation takes next to no time , there being only one disk with the software on . |
| 8 | As we have noticed above , the success of any social dialectological project in a dialect-divergent community depends crucially on adequate methods of analysing linguistic variation , and it is this analysis that takes most of the time . |
| 9 | No discipline seems pleasant at the time , but painful . |
| 10 | It seems ironic at a time of mounting concern about the excessive hours of junior hospital doctors . |
| 11 | Despite the talk in US government circles only three years ago , of synfuels being what would save the US from OPEC oil dependence , the programme has become unpopular and seems likely at the time of writing to become an offering to appease fears of further growth in the federal budget deficit . |
| 12 | Sometimes our dreams tell coherent stories , but more often they are a jumble that seems logical at the time but is revealed by our conscious memory as a nonsense . |
| 13 | and I thought come into my head , it 's probably complete rubbish but it seems logical at the time which was , if you got rid of er , a lot of the various taxes that they paid and put everything on to VAT , apart from the fact that you 'd be a few , just by upping the rate of VAT they would collect the extra monies , you 'd save a lot of the money you 'd pay in administration costs by , all the various different departments er |
| 14 | It seems providential at a time when good news and dreams are in short supply : 430 unknown drawings by Amedeo Modigliani from his eight crucial years in Paris ( 1906–14 ) , which will be published by Noel Alexandre in September . |
| 15 | Latest traffic figures available at the time of writing showed that the airport had its busiest October on record . |
| 16 | If you ca n't run — maybe you are taking your grandmother for a walk — then you have to deter the ‘ nasties ’ using whatever method seems best at the time . |
| 17 | Supporters of the quantity theory argued that V will be influenced by the customs and payments practices prevailing at the time , and that such arrangements change only slowly . |
| 18 | Evan spends much of the time with his eyes clamped shut , rocking gently and scraping notes out of his sore , croaking throat . |
| 19 | If there is no relative acceleration between A and B , then Δv remains constant during the time that A and B are in free fall . |
| 20 | Add to that the tensions of the coming competition and the situation becomes volatile in no time . |
| 21 | There are none of us , including Cliff , a concrete contractor from Washington state , and his wife Sandy , who wanted to go to Paris this summer but lost the toss of a coin ; Bill , who writes travel guides and is comfortable only in his own company ; and Ken , a semi-retired naval man from Oregon , who spends most of the time wrestling with the impossible task of capturing the gigantic scenery in photographs . |
| 22 | They listen for them , cocking their heads to one side to catch the sound of the grub chewing its way through the wood which , since wood is its food , it does most of the time . |
| 23 | The single dog , who has probably been bored for many years , suddenly has a new playmate , who like himself , sleeps most of the time , but will enjoy a game for short periods . |
| 24 | The dwarf maintains an assault on the trees for long periods and achieves little ( the equivalent of frequent , low-magnitude events ) ; the giant sleeps most of the time but occasionally wakes and causes great destruction ( a catastrophic event ) whereas the man works regular hours and systematically achieves the greatest effects ( events that occur once or twice each year ) . |
| 25 | Intelligence reports available at the time spelt out clearly that one of the Iraqi directors of the firm was involved in Saddam 's race for the bomb . |
| 26 | Time deixis concerns the encoding of temporal points and spans relative to the time at which an utterance was spoken ( or a written message inscribed ) . |
| 27 | Lady Hamilton ( 1941 , That Hamilton Woman in US ) , which Korda made in America with Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier , works most of the time as a love story , but the messages that constantly obtrude about men whose ‘ insane ambition ’ makes them want to destroy what others had built are not organic to the main narrative . |
| 28 | Roles works most of the time with one of his two Hasselblads , which he finds a good compromise between quality and portability ; these and a range of lenses comprise his field equipment . |