Example sentences of "it [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if cheating is necessary , you can commonly get away with it for a time . |
| 2 | There is a real danger in only doing the classical things — you 're OK with it for a time , but then you 're left high and dry when fashion moves on . ’ |
| 3 | Genette speaks of this change in emphasis as a restoration of equilibrium in literary studies : ‘ Literature had long enough been regarded as a message without a code for it to become necessary to regard it for a time as a code without a message ( 1982 : 7 ) . |
| 4 | As Sir Alan Richmond recalls it : ‘ we were very hot on sandwich courses , almost dogmatic about it for a time ’ . |
| 5 | Hakim was used to transactions where ‘ all parameters are not known , you leave it for the times that things are known ’ , but this business proceeded on a plane that was ‘ intangible ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Anyway , let's forget it for the time being . |
| 7 | ‘ As a pledge of my sincerity in the matter of the crowning of Prince Richard , I leave it for the time being with you . |
| 8 | Ever since John Marshall , its first chief justice , discovered that the court had the ability to overturn legislation that did not accord with the constitution , it has been indispensable in bolstering the central tenet of American democracy : that no grant of governmental power to those who exercise it for the time being is limitless . |
| 9 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |
| 10 | By that method we fix our minds on some central point : we suppose it for the time to be reduced to a stationary state ; and we then study in relation to it the forces that affect the things by which it is surrounded , and any tendency there may be to equilibrium of these forces . |
| 11 | I 'll second it for the time being . |
| 12 | And a and also , I mean , it was , and it was a Panasonic one this , erm what you do , if you were doing a jacket top potato , you er would weigh the potato and , and then erm put in the weight , say it was six ounces , and all you do then is press erm jacket potato , you do n't have to put any time , it automatically does it for the time . |
| 13 | Even now Maggie remembered the making of it as a time of rare delight : when all the people of her life came together and did something for her . |
| 14 | Norma remembers it as a time of great happiness tinged with much sadness , for the pub was adopted by the Canadians and Americans stationed at Middleton St George . |
| 15 | I did not pay much attention to it as the time , because we had n't decided which peak we were going to attempt . |
| 16 | We never noticed it during the time it took for me to qualify and start work as an intern at St Andrew 's in Marylebone . |
| 17 | I told him what I said to you on the phone about should n't he be given a bit more obvious humanity because priests are n't great box-office nowadays and Vic said we 'd talk about it nearer the time . |
| 18 | Their backs even made it into The Times when the newspaper published names of the finishers . |
| 19 | You 'd be bored with it in no time — and so would everybody else . |
| 20 | ‘ Miss Honey gives us a little song about each word and we all sing it together and we learn to spell it in no time . |
| 21 | He sold it in no time — at the price he originally wanted . |
| 22 | I 'll do it in the time . |
| 23 | The first some of the Tank members knew of their fate was when they read it in The Times . |
| 24 | I saw it in The Times . |
| 25 | Er , it 's very difficult , yes you all laughed when I asked a question last year from over there to get a capital P in Pearson because you all laughed it took twenty weeks to get it in The Times , do you remember ? |
| 26 | Why have n't you done it in the time you 've been in ? |
| 27 | I 'll do it , I 'll do it in the time . |
| 28 | When Tallis rode up this narrow track she sent stones tumbling to the glittering water below her , and at a certain height she stopped to listen to the sound , recognizing it from a time in childhood , from a time when she had summoned images of another world , and Harry had called to her for help . |
| 29 | With the political will we could begin to change it from the time of the first by-election of the present parliament . |
| 30 | This County Council failed to do it from the time , time it was formed until eighty-five ; it failed even to address the problem , never mind do it , and we 've been trying to , to sort of do some catching up . |