Example sentences of "time [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is not what unions , under the present dispensation , are about ; and that is why , after three years of wage restraint under the compulsion of economic crisis , there was in 1979 what the Financial Times properly called a return to normality , with all its faults . |
| 2 | I believe it is a hundred times better to have a leader who wants to go forward rather than one who retreats towards the hills when the going gets rough . |
| 3 | The chairman of the Guardian and Manchester Evening News announced in his 1986 annual report that ‘ The Times now has a cost structure much lower than our own … we must get our own costs down to their level as soon as possible ’ . |
| 4 | At times there existed a land bridge to the island . |
| 5 | Some severely neglected children do at times actually value a cuff , a blow or a kick . |
| 6 | There was time only to grab a piece of burnt toast before jumping into her car and setting off for London . |
| 7 | Jolted from his daydreams , Lucien had time only to feel a rush of air as Amber Epipheny swept past him . |
| 8 | The study of the mechanisms responsible for group structure at any one time thus requires a through-time or ‘ diachronic ’ perspective if the functional role of these mechanisms in relation to the overall reproductive strategies of individuals is to be perceived . |
| 9 | as I say if you could erm if you could some time soon drop a note off in my tray about , you know , kind of what exactly you 've got outstanding so I can go round and see the erm see the people concerned and , and say that you 've been |
| 10 | Did you in your time ever send a man to execution ? |
| 11 | For Swindon it was shooting practice young Marcus Phillips on as sub for the first time nearly got a goal but it was Torquay who tookover towards the end … |
| 12 | She never explained the means by which this journey had been made , though Jarvis some time later overheard a conversation about suicide , his mother referring to her ‘ poor father ’ , and put two and two together . |
| 13 | If they are the same say something like ‘ I think this is going to be a fun game ’ and at the same time smoothly slide a card from the top to the bottom . |
| 14 | Such a theory is also required if we are to answer the question : Does time really have a beginning and , possibly , an end , as is predicted by classical general relativity , or are the singularities in the big bang and the big crunch smeared out in some way by quantum effects ? |
| 15 | She was on her own : Dr Neil had been called out some time ago to attend a woman in childbirth , and Matey had gone to visit an old friend in St John 's Wood , and she was the sole mistress of the doctor 's house in Vetch Street . |
| 16 | Will the Leader of the House find time today to plan a journey from south Norfolk to north-west Norfolk to look at the local health services ? |
| 17 | Central Office had great difficulty finding seats for the candidates of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , as the BWL had become by 1918 , and it took some time even to find a place for Victor Fisher himself before he was finally installed for Stourbridge . |
| 18 | But we usually go out for about three weeks at a time then have a break of about one week to allow everybody to go home to their families , because we think that is absolutely vital ! ’ |
| 19 | How convenient of John Major to have put himself in the position of bringing the Maastricht issue to a head — and at the same time virtually assuring a no-confidence vote in the Government — on the day the sun and Saturn are in a tense 90-degree angle to each other . |
| 20 | These ‘ significant others ’ over time actually become a part of the psychic structure of the child from which develops the concept of self . |