Example sentences of "for [adj] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Winston Benjamin had already claimed the prize scalp of Gooch for eight by the time Agnew peeled off his sweater . |
| 2 | Problems of authenticity are not so great or modern art as for other periods , even if a gifted forger like the painter Elmir de Horty can fool some of the people for some of the time . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's accepted that the towing tractor will stand idle for some of the time , but at least you are n't taking tankers into the field , ’ he adds . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've been sitting around twiddling our thumbs for some of the time and people have been sloping off early , ’ he said . |
| 5 | The patient 's problem is that he has joined a group of unfamiliar people , some of whom , the patients , are present all the time ; others , the nurses , are in his vicinity for some of the time ; and a whole variety of others appear ‘ to come and go ’ . |
| 6 | Compared with the press and radio , however , the TV audience remained very mixed : most viewers watched most channels for some of the time . |
| 7 | the other option of course is not to do that and to try and gain some experience erm m maybe voluntary for some of the time so that maybe I can then spend you know in another years time get a job which is a bit more relevant and I 'll be able to earn some money . |
| 8 | But what they all wanted was to be cared for some of the time and often their tears were statements about that need . |
| 9 | Some children experienced the balance for some of the time ; others inevitably did not . |
| 10 | ‘ They say that , for some of the time , the Robemaker dwells in the heart of the Dark Realm , ’ said Caspar and glanced over his shoulder uneasily . |
| 11 | Responsible party government and pluralism fitted some of the facts of British politics for some of the time , but they were always overoptimistic and crucially flawed in ways we have pointed to in the body of this chapter . |
| 12 | There were quite a few there during the afternoon — eight , ten — more , perhaps , for some of the time , some of the races . |
| 13 | Insurers usually require a Statutory Declaration as to the solvency of the transferor husband at the time of the conveyance so the practitioner must consider whether or not it is practical to ask for this at the time of the conveyance ( see further Chapter 10 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't know whether this was a fund-raising ploy or whether this was for real , ’ O'Boyle said , ‘ but I thought it was for real at the time . ’ |
| 15 | For much of the time , he is the achiever who tries for a reasonable percentage return . |
| 16 | To most people , a receptionist is an obstacle to be negotiated , and that was unfortunately how I was made to feel for much of the time . |
| 17 | The other game was far more interesting with Speelman looking for much of the time as though he was spending a very unhappy 33rd birthday . |
| 18 | Surveying the solitary chair and bare mattress , the missing lightbulbs round the mirror , you understand why for much of the time Newley keeps his eyes closed , picturing maybe the backstage steamrooms and personal barmen of American showbiz . |
| 19 | Vivienne found Peters extremely boring , but the next day , Sunday , Peters and Eliot , who was looking very ill , went off to Greenwich , a choice of venue which suggests that the two men talked about sailing for much of the time . |
| 20 | For much of the time the only sounds were the chatter of birds and the humming of my bike 's knobbly tyres , but the wide panoramas changed constantly as the countryside unfolded around me . |
| 21 | A fine attacking batsman , he had been in the England team for much of the time since making his debut in 1982 , but after his four centuries in the summer of 1984 he had disappointed too often and his average scarcely reflected his ability — in 57 Tests he had made just over 3,000 runs at 34 before the tour began . |
| 22 | On the second of these , the captain , Leslie Ames , was injured for much of the time and Worrell was appointed his deputy . |
| 23 | These incidents are rare not only because national emergencies are mercifully infrequent , but because for much of the time there is an instinctive understanding between the governors of the broadcasting organization and the government of the nation , as the corporation 's behaviour on issues like appeasement demonstrates ; Reith succumbed to the same collective delusion that had seized Chamberlain , his foreign secretary , Halifax , and most of the population . |
| 24 | The contra leaders , sitting for much of the time in Miami in their well-cut lightweight suits and their gold watches , had purposes in view , some of them not especially noble ; the rebels in the field were mostly tired , variously motivated , and confused . |
| 25 | In between he was , for much of the time , all over the shop , scrambling pars more than hunting birdies . |
| 26 | Although he referred to her in letters to Zbo as ‘ his wife ’ and was concerned and excited about the baby , Modi was very much the Italian husband , leaving his woman alone while he visited the cafés , living inside of himself for much of the time , coming home drunk and moving restlessly from place to place . |
| 27 | It was built in 1490 and for much of the time it was owned by the Darrel family . |
| 28 | But for much of the time , without the right circumstances , they remained hungry , prophets without followings . |
| 29 | However , for much of the time , these violent commitments are relatively rare . |
| 30 | THE social order of the European high Middle Ages was characterized by an immense number of local subsistence economies , with relatively little intercommunication for much of the time . |