Example sentences of "time in [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can ‘ expect ’ to meet a variety of other genes in different bodies at different times in its distributed existence , and in its march through geological time . |
| 2 | Two soldiers ( lace-up boots ) were taking photos of their girlfriends in Peace Square , also known — at various times in its turbulent career — as Lenin Square and Hitler Square . |
| 3 | Both the singing and the dialogue ( of which there is a good deal ) are expressive and sparkling , though there are times in her two solos , when Christiane Castelli ( Gontran ) seems a little uncertain pitch and fragile of tone . |
| 4 | In the following example , the motives of someone who stabs his victim many times in her genital area are not discussed in public ; indeed the sexual component is dismissed with the claim that the victim had not been indecently assaulted . |
| 5 | She 's well regarded , except at times in her local supermarket where Phyllis occasionally undergoes something of a personality change . |
| 6 | More generally , they looked back to Carolingian times in their liturgical practice . |
| 7 | ‘ We are only requiring children to be tested four times in their educational life , ’ she added . |
| 8 | But that pales in comparison with Saturday 's opponents who have found the net no fewer than nine times in their last two games , again conceding only the single goal . |
| 9 | We had some particularly bad waiting times in our own district . |
| 10 | In the case of regression to earlier times in your present life , there will be enough evidence for you to check on at a later date , even if you are not actually aware of specific people or events . |
| 11 | Colin resents the notion that he does n't carry a big punch and this could be a chance for him to try to prove otherwise as Palacio admits to having been knocked out four times in his 58-fight career . |
| 12 | Cardiff had seen similar identification only four times in his professional life . |
| 13 | Greg Thomas came close to a wicket three times in his first over in Test cricket , but Greenidge and Haynes survived to give their usual start before Greenidge had to retire with a cut forehead after mishooking Botham . |
| 14 | Krenek changed style several times in his long career and his piano sonatas , ranging from 1919 to 1988 , parallel these developments . |
| 15 | ‘ Night ’ itself occurs several times in his early books of poetry , as it was bound to do , and its references are of an intimidating sort : ‘ the night never ending ’ ( in ‘ Letter ’ ) , and ‘ the clinic of your thighs against the night ’ ( in Let Us Compare Mythologies ; the latter intimating that other experience of the night which such high thinkers as Bertrand Russell found laden with sexual feelings ) . |
| 16 | I met Leonard Elmhirst a few times in his old age . |
| 17 | The first is a quote from Al Deere , one of the most famous Battle of Britain pilots : Fate is a strange master and I have always been a fatalist , — he should be a fatalist he has baled out nine times in his air-lighting life . |
| 18 | PC Bob Holt has been assaulted three times in his three years in the force . |
| 19 | Grabbing a handful of fresh cartridges he began to reload the shotgun , fumbling a couple of times in his new-found haste . |
| 20 | For the fourth time in its five year history , the ARC , the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers , has been bedevilled by light winds on what should be the tradewind route from the Canary Islands to the West Indies . |
| 21 | This was only the second or third time in its five years existence that the company had bought a car . |
| 22 | At no time in its long history of seven hundred years has Parliament governed , nor save for a brief period when the Constitution broke down in the seventeenth century has it made any claim to do so . |
| 23 | When the property came up for sale , for only the second time in its long history , a telegram was despatched to Honora , who was working in London : ‘ Will you invest savings in Plas ? ’ |
| 24 | The collapse of communism in many countries which were hitherto allies meant that North Korea was more isolated in 1990 than at any time in its recent history . |
| 25 | The eventual confirmation of Thomas , who succeeded black justice Thurgood Marshall , meant that the nine-member Supreme Court would be without a single liberal member for the first time in its modern history . |
| 26 | Powering up The Needles lighthouse is being connected with mains electricity for the first time in its 134-year history . |
| 27 | It 's the first time in its 500 years of activity that the volcano has claimed lives . |
| 28 | and in addition to the foregoing such other risks as the Landlord from time to time in its reasonable discretion may think fit to insure against or against which the Tenant may reasonably request the Landlord to insure |
| 29 | As a result in February 1990 the World Federation for Mental Health — for the first time in its 40-year history — made a submission to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva , arraigning an individual country for abusing the human rights of mentally ill people . |
| 30 | The Lloyd 's insurance market opened for trade on a Sunday for the first time in its 300-year history . |