Example sentences of "in [adj] time [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general a failure to serve a committal order in due time would not be expected to lead to the quashing of the sentence of imprisonment . |
| 2 | At the time of the Crusades , Europe took comfort in the expectation that somewhere in the East there ruled a mighty Christian monarch , Known as Prester John , who in due time would march on Jerusalem , destroy the infidel and liberate the Holy Places . |
| 3 | He knew about the river ; in different times might have worked on it , happily and well . |
| 4 | The canny squire in medieval times would keep one ear open to what the messengers and washerwomen were saying and would be careful to drop hints to other knights about how much he admired them . |
| 5 | Apart from their vital role in the present , much of the photographic history written in future times will be based on these magazines . |
| 6 | Reconstruction in Victorian times may have rendered the building even more forbidding . |
| 7 | At Broomy Hill , one mile west of the city centre , is the Herefordshire Waterworks Museum , where the processes involved in a public water supply in Victorian times can be seen . |
| 8 | Instead , in a replay , the number of corners awarded in extra time will be used to decide to outcome . |
| 9 | The beginning in real time will be the big bang singularity . |
| 10 | If one extrapolates the results of the sum over histories from imaginary time to real time , one finds that the beginning of the universe in real time can be very different from its end . |
| 11 | The beginning and end in real time can be very different from each other . |
| 12 | Drinks before dinner are spent in bizarre oscillation between an Essex taxi-driver advancing his theories on the need for a return of the ‘ glasshouse ’ for young offenders , and a syrupy smooth young Etonian on the Turnbull and Asser wing of the party who in previous times might have glided effortlessly into a constituency . |
| 13 | She was a big , handsome woman , a larger Grace with a noble bum , by which Grunte in happier times might well have been tempted . |
| 14 | But rules that strengthen banks in good times can cripple them in recessions . |
| 15 | With such a carefully structured order , village life and farming in good times could be free from drought and civil disturbance , be secure and highly profitable , particularly for the thegn . |
| 16 | ‘ People are selling off unwanted peripherals which in better times might have been bought by a trade buyer . |
| 17 | But the histories of the particles in imaginary time would continue . |
| 18 | The poor astronaut who falls into a black hole will still come to a sticky end ; only if he lived in imaginary time would he encounter no singularities . |
| 19 | However , the beginning in imaginary time will not be a singularity . |
| 20 | This means that what happened in imaginary time could be calculated . |
| 21 | By far the most effective arrangements presently available are those which : ( 1 ) provide for the continuing partners to have the option to acquire the share in the firm of an outgoing partner ( which overcomes the tax problems noted in Chapter 10 and offers some desirable freedom of manoeuvre to the continuing partners without ordinarily causing any disadvantage to the outgoing partner ) ; ( 2 ) finance the purchase of the share of a partner who dies before retirement by way of insurance effected on the lives of each of the partners the proceeds of which are declared to be held on trust for the partners for the time being ; ( 3 ) finance by endowment insurance the purchase of the shares of partners whose retirement can be predicted ; ( 4 ) ensure that in any case which is not or can not be sufficiently covered by available insurance ( eg payments to a partner who is expelled or who otherwise leaves the firm before normal retirement date ) payment of any capital sum is spread over a period so to reduce the burden on the continuing partners without imposing any great hardship on the outgoing partner or his estate ; and ( 5 ) impose on each partner an obligation ( Clause 14.02 ) to take out adequate ( as discussed with all the partners from time to time ) retirement provision for the benefit of himself and his familyso as not to impose any burden in that respect on the firm , which in former times would have accepted responsibility . |
| 22 | ‘ But here we are , drinking wine sitting on a bed that in former times would have been on fire by now . ’ |
| 23 | The fine balance between proper execution of the task and its achievement in minimum time can only be set with experience and even then never exactly . |
| 24 | Exceptional victories by the youth XV , the U19s and U21s in recent times will be reflected in the long term . |
| 25 | As narrow gauge steam locomotives have proved impossible to find in this country , contact has been made with the authorities in Poland where extensive closures of their systems in recent times will provide examples . |
| 26 | Well I think what we 'll do is one day we 'll weigh the amount of spaghetti and then we 'll know exactly how much to put in next time wo n't we ? |
| 27 | That duration testifies to the substantial fact that for all the alarm the crisis produced , the British financial system had reached a level of sophistication and general confidence which enabled it to live through a moment which in earlier times would have seemed the harbinger of doom . |