Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowd lingers for a long time , until it 's almost dark . |
| 2 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 3 | The last has for a long time been the argument most favoured by political theorists . |
| 4 | For example , it has for a long time been generally accepted by students of organisation that any organisation is likely to need a number of rules and procedures to guide the behaviour of organisational members . |
| 5 | The geographical concentration of the relatively high per capita income services — especially in finance — in London and the South East has for a long time been a feature of the British economy [ Brown , 1972 ] . |
| 6 | Special education has for a long time been fertile ground for curricula based on linear models of learning , guided and assessed through hierarchies of objectives . |
| 7 | Safety , which has for a long time been assumed to be at odds with commercial considerations , is now a business interest . |
| 8 | Given that many of these theories require extremely detailed specifications of grammar rules and lexical entries this has for a long time formed an obstacle to the production of general systems . |
| 9 | High acidity of the duodenal contents has for a long time been found to be associated with gastric metaplasia , both in humans and in laboratory animals . |
| 10 | Organ jazz has for a long time been club-trendy but it has taken until now for a new artist to come through to match the likes of Jimmy Smith and ‘ Big ’ John Patton with whom she shares a clear affinity in her choice of rhythms and blues inflections . |
| 11 | A TOTALLY PSYCHEDELIC GUY , aged 16 , who lives for a good time is out to see if there are any zany females into Pink Floyd , Cult and The Who . |
| 12 | ‘ This looks like the ideal time to push ahead . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ ( 2 ) Where the company has at a relevant time … entered into a transaction with any person at an undervalue , the [ administrator or liquidator ] may apply to the court for an order under this section . |
| 14 | ‘ ( 2 ) Where the company has at a relevant time … given a preference to any person , the [ administrator or liquidator ] may apply to the court for an order under this section . |
| 15 | ‘ ( 1 ) … where an individual is adjudged bankrupt and he has at a relevant time … entered into a transaction with any person at an undervalue , the trustee of the bankrupt 's estate may apply to the court for an order under this section . |
| 16 | So what do you think about the overall situation as it stands at the present time ? |
| 17 | This is a little like kitchen foil , but is plastic based and inert ( kitchen foil disintegrates after a short time ) . |
| 18 | I now know that it 's not what happens in the good times that counts , but how you survive the bad — disastrous holidays , financial crises , illnesses . |
| 19 | Both glans and prepuce are covered by stratified squamous epithelium , and separation occurs at a variable time from before birth to several years afterwards by desquamation . |
| 20 | It arrives at a different time from the rest of the mail . |
| 21 | There is no corresponding requirement for bistability , which occurs for , and thus actually benefits from a long time constant , since the gain is : hence materials such as semiconductors and liquid crystals with small are ideal for bistability but useless for Ikeda instability . |
| 22 | Now , as a background to that , I actually had one of my officers at undertake research of the in to establish what the demands were made upon us from th the section which includes at the present time . |
| 23 | However , this source suffers from the long time gap between censuses , and so more detailed and more frequent information on changing land use within the forest still has to rely on ad hoc surveys . |
| 24 | As this transistor conducts for a fixed time , dictated by the winding time constant , it may be switched from a fixed-period monostable circuit triggered by tile phase excitation signal . |
| 25 | NOVELL AIMS FOR THE BIG TIME WITH RELEASE 4.0 OF NETWARE |
| 26 | One — three months seems about the right time horizon for raising the majority of deposits . |
| 27 | ‘ It seems like a good time to — ’ At the cynical lift of his eyebrows her voice trailed off . |
| 28 | One hundred years seems like a long time to us , because it is longer than our lifetime . |
| 29 | ‘ Seems like the ideal time to me , ’ said a nome . |
| 30 | The quorum rule also applies throughout the whole time the meeting is in progress . |