Example sentences of "a [adj] time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got to say that I did enjoy this outing ; although the day began with a freezing start it warmed up later and I had a pleasant time working amongst the iron and other junk that abounds on the riverside . |
| 2 | The agency account man must have had a sticky time explaining that one to the client . |
| 3 | 113 Is There A Right Time To Buy A Car ? |
| 4 | IS THERE A RIGHT TIME TO BUY A CAR ? |
| 5 | The Chinese also knew another archaic type of water-clock , a floating bowl with a hole in its base that was adjusted so that it took a specific time to sink . |
| 6 | Is this not a strange time to close offices which provide assistance for so many unemployed people ? |
| 7 | ‘ A strange time to arrive , Walter , Christmas Eve . ’ |
| 8 | It seems a strange time to choose . |
| 9 | It 's a strange time to rejoin the Tories . |
| 10 | In addition to , the appearance of APGPR in serum was mirrored by its detection in urine suggesting not only that the peptide can survive immunoreactively intact in the circulation for a suficient time to allow systemic dispersal but also is rapidly excreted by the kidney . |
| 11 | Reced er the precedent for the situation that we are in now , yes indeed there is one and it was when er the Labour government was last in power in nineteen seventy eight , when we had er er er to er set up the European constituencies we had a limited time to do it in and all the countries in Europe had to agree to bring forward the same kind of agreement and put it into effect at the same time . |
| 12 | Bearing this in mind and the fact that you only have a limited time to see it all , we 've put together these special tours . |
| 13 | There is no right in Community law to have a lawyer present for such meetings , although normally the Commission will allow a limited time to elapse for the parties to acquire legal representation . |
| 14 | Then he remembered the guard back at Wissembourg and knew he had only a limited time to cover his tracks . |
| 15 | There is a set time allowed for the council to receive comments on an application . |
| 16 | So now she was having a splendid time visiting friends , and who could blame her ? |
| 17 | ‘ She had a splendid time visiting the Radio Show and sitting in the Mayor 's parlour . |
| 18 | With these objects , in their millennium of power , the Celts seem to have had a splendid time scraping and whipping Europe into shape . |
| 19 | ‘ He has had a sad time looking for work in London and intends to go back to the North-East with his parents as soon as possible , ’ said David Martin , defending . |
| 20 | They are generally operated on a fixed cycle , so that , when a known volume of water has passed through the plant , a valve is turned so as first to backwash the bed to cleanse the zeolite , and then to pass in brine for a fixed time to regenerate the material . |
| 21 | This is a lucky time to focus on what you can make of yourself . |
| 22 | There is , of course , a problem which must be confronted by both the police and the press if — after a brief time has elapsed — the crime remains unsolved and no further atrocities are being committed which can , even remotely , be connected with the original outrage . |
| 23 | But the problem is that this requires a teacher of genius ; and that a pupil has anyway only a brief time to get through work which has taken the lifetimes of many eminent predecessors : there must always be something artificial about heurism . |
| 24 | She figures they 're having a hard time positioning the thing and do n't want to mess up the good thing they have going with Windows . |
| 25 | He was tremendously successful and his successor will have a hard time emulating him . |
| 26 | Some officials have spoken of getting NATO to spread its wings , though they might have a hard time persuading the Canadians and Europeans of that . |
| 27 | They 'd have a hard time proving that , I think , if they were interested in proof ; which I 'm not sure they are . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm just having a hard time indentifying you with a business legendary for its ‘ wise old men ’ . |
| 29 | Even though it offers compensation to people who have already bought shops or flats , Albania 's court system , now being rebuilt from scratch after almost 30 years without a justice ministry , will have a hard time sorting out property disputes . |
| 30 | ‘ It must be said that many Christian men still have a hard time seeing women 's issues as their issues too , ’ said Bishop Edmond Browning , Anglican Primate in the USA . |