Example sentences of "as [verb] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , while the condition of struggle with the West Indians remained a constant , at least until 1838 , in providing a rationale for national organisations , how they were conceived as operating at various times , and even at the same time by different reformers , varied significantly . |
| 2 | Even after having done the week 's shopping en route , I was back at Shellerton House as promised in good time for Tremayne to drive his Volvo to Newbury races . |
| 3 | Such unemployment as exists at any time is due wholly to the frictional resistances [ which ] prevent wage and price adjustments being made instantaneously . |
| 4 | If at a time before the end of the relevant period any property ceases to be property subject to a reservation , the donor shall be treated for the purposes of the inheritance tax legislation as having at that time made a disposition of the property by way of a potentially exempt transfer ( s102(3) and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 5 | I was curious to see what shrift she would receive in Naipaul 's novel : the work of a man who has been spoken of by an old friend , the novelist Paul Theroux , as having in earlier times been ‘ merciless , solitary , and ( one of his favourite words ) unassailable ’ . |
| 6 | As opposed to simple time which is ordinary single beats . |
| 7 | Think of the five other roads as leaving at various times on a clock face ; as already pointed out , all movement on roundabouts is in a clockwise direction . |
| 8 | This 100 ( or such lesser number as existed at any time ) were to elect 28 of their number to sit in the new House . |