Example sentences of "in [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Politically , too , it is worth remembering that , as the American Embassy in Paris reported , the Pleven cabinet faced a dozen problems , any one of which was capable in normal times of causing the downfall of two or three French governments . |
| 2 | ( ceased to be a member of the Institute on 14 July 1992 for failing to pay the Disciplinary Committee fine and costs in due time under the terms of Bye-law 41 . ) |
| 3 | These rather simple expectations were not fulfilled however : the worst housed were not necessarily relocated and the new estates were associated in due time with their own problems of overcrowding , poverty and undernourishment . |
| 4 | If the receiver of the gift can not respond in due time with a ‘ counter-gift ’ ( counter gifts can not be given too soon after gifts , because this would imply a logic of calculation which would deplete the symbolic force of the exchange ) then the giver is in a position of creditor and the receiver in one of debtor . |
| 5 | As to using acrylic directly on top of oil paint , this is generally best avoided , mainly because of the difference in drying times between the two media . |
| 6 | As to using acrylic directly on top of oil paint , this is generally best avoided , mainly because of the difference in drying times between the two media . |
| 7 | ( He does admit however that these remains were — in historical times at least — linked to patrilineal groups ; rather odd inheritors of the principles of the matrilineal gens . ) |
| 8 | ( That is an allusion to the Dorian Invasions , in the period after the collapse of the Mycenaean states ; the newcomers were supposed to have entered the Peloponnese after a stay in the central Greek region known in historical times as Doris . ) |
| 9 | Fashions in dress and diet , ceremonies and customs , art and architecture , engineering and technology , all evolve in historical time in a way that looks like highly speeded up genetic evolution , but has really nothing to do with genetic evolution . |
| 10 | Without discounting the possibility that sources may yet be found in the mountains of China , present indications are that jade was already reaching China in Neolithic times by the route followed during the Bronze Age and down to the time of Sir Aurel Stein 's travels in inner Asia at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 11 | oh yeah the people , matey 's walking along and he 's going like this and he 's pulling it as he 's doing it , he says and he 's doing it in proper time like that , but with one arm going he 's twiddling it , he 's doing it , he says no my feet are exactly like that , very effective but you can actually get fined for loosing them , you have to pay for them and its like a real , shooting sticks as well , you do n't tend to carry erm , these pay sticks you carry them like the old shooting sticks , the old you know ? |
| 12 | It is only a short way from this position to punishment of artists whose views are seen as heretical , a tendency which led in medieval times to burnings at the stake and , more recently , to the horrors of the Maoist ‘ cultural revolution ’ . |
| 13 | The roads in this upper part of the valley were designed in medieval times for the occasional passage of horses and carts and have never been brought to modern standards by straightening and widening and it is to be hoped that they never will be . |
| 14 | The Physic Garden is planted with examples of herbs used in Medieval times for medicinal purposes . |
| 15 | Primarily associated with fertility , so highly regarded in primitive times for the continuity of the group , this powerful force was often controlled and restricted by taboos , some of which have survived into modern times as codes of social behaviour , but deeply affected by both prudery and prurience which usually operated together . |
| 16 | The Fulani in old times under Dan Fodio conquered this country . |
| 17 | For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man : but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost . ’ ( v. 20/21 ) . |
| 18 | Visitors are guided through the baths as they would have appeared in Roman times by artists ' reconstructions , spoken commentaries and fascinating computer graphics . |
| 19 | I merely hope that I will not be a Charles talking about the fire cover again for today and er perhaps in future times for the simple reason that it is one thing to make a budget , it is one thing to do a . |
| 20 | Hence : ‘ Many now forget that the rules of most sports were framed in Victorian times without resort to enforcement then ‘ in ’ , and were n't prison sentences then stiffer ? |
| 21 | The impetus behind the NBA was the problem in Victorian times of widespread and severe price cutting in the retail book trade , which was seen as a threat to the viability of booksellers and publishers . |
| 22 | In a drama about workhouse conditions in Victorian times with a class of second-year secondary girls ( 13+ ) , the ‘ status ’ structure was employed when the girls , in role as inmates , were interviewed by staff whose attitude at best was indifference ( p. 117 ) . |
| 23 | Occupied in Victorian times by the officers of the County Gaol . |
| 24 | The family in early times for Marx belongs to the private domain , rather than to the public and political . |
| 25 | There is little legend attached in early times to the name of Theseus ; and his build-up at this period as a companion and analogue of Herakles seems as a propaganda-figure for the Athenian democracy . |
| 26 | With a mischievous grin on his face , he gyrated his lean anatomy under Janet 's neat little posterior in perfect time with the bucking machine . |
| 27 | Amen ’ he added , in perfect time with the congregation . |
| 28 | They moved nothing except their eyes , but they moved in perfect time to the footsteps , marking the position , flicking backwards and forwards as the human crossed the room above . |
| 29 | It was not a habit of the Holy Spirit in biblical times to be identified with the views of the majority ! |
| 30 | Mr Souness , who arrived at a Manchester hospital offering the comment : ‘ I ca n't say I 'm looking forward to it but it is essential so it has to be done , ’ broke the news to his players on the way back from Sunday 's semi-final which Liverpool rescued late in extra time through Ronnie Whelan . |