Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [adj] time and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have been at ITN for a long time and come from a traditional news background . |
| 2 | We had a stable rate base for a long time and we saw no reason to doubt that there was anything untoward in the ratings that had been made within our borough . |
| 3 | Is the certificate worth the extra time and considerable effort involved on top of implementing a TQM programme ? |
| 4 | He was tempted to go in and get it over , but he had been away from his temporary headquarters for a long time and he did not even know if the body had bean recovered successfully . |
| 5 | I 've known Becky for a long time and I never thought she 'd go public with what is a private afffair … it may in part be naivity … but I think some of it was vengence . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've acted for the club for a long time and have always had a good relationship with them . |
| 7 | The work had dropped off yeah , and then I were on the , on the labour for a short time and erm then I got a job next door to where I lived , straight next door . |
| 8 | A horse that has apparently recovered completely can remain a carrier for a considerable time and therefore should not be mixed with uninfected horses until nasal swabs are clear of any bacterial growth . |
| 9 | Very simple and very complex organisms have lived side by side for a long time and both have evolved together . |
| 10 | She had the light on the whole time and the radio blaring . |
| 11 | Apart from containing pictures of part of the scene where it is said the violent disorder had taken place and an incident leading up to the arrival of the police which was held to be part of the res gestae , the tape would have been useful to establish alibis some defendants wished to rely upon in respect of their presence in the club at a relevant time and the timing between significant incidents . |
| 12 | Yet he had photographs of her in every jacket pocket , and they fell out of books at the wrong time and upset Eva ; and when he asked me about Mum , Dad and I had to go into another room , away from Eva , as if we were discussing something disgraceful . |
| 13 | BKZ consider that this effect of previous history results from the stored elastic energy in the configuration at a previous time and they then assume the stress at time t to be the sum of all the contributions from all . |
| 14 | We can notice , too , that the deictic aspect of the definite referring expression the sun ( the definite article being a deictic term ) is contextually ambiguous — I could use it homophorically ( the sun , generally ) or deictically ( the sun at a particular time and place ) . |
| 15 | This weakened the Section 's influence at a crucial time and correspondingly strengthened the hand of the Treasury . |
| 16 | Over a hundred MPs in the House of Commons hold government posts at the present time and even the humblest of them — the parliamentary private secretaries — are almost always forced to resign if they vote against the government or even abstain . |
| 17 | Sets of boundary conditions that tell us the state of some regions of the universe at a certain time and what effects propagate into it subsequently from the rest of the universe . |
| 18 | Unfortunately the music electronics contribution hit a slump at the critical time and was unable to meet expectations . |
| 19 | Many tournaments ( as you emphasised ) , have been in place for a long time and often with the same people running them for decades . |
| 20 | And when I , I mean when I , I actu actually felt quite emotional cos I 'd not been to Park to see a match for a long time and I mean we 're living up here erm , and er , I just felt quite emotional when I got out and saw that lovely pitch it was in perfect |
| 21 | Looking immaculate in a bright red suit she said : ‘ I have been looking forward to this moment for a long time and I am glad to have been a part of it . ’ |
| 22 | The proposed courses for the next term confirm that the college will be only using fifty percent of the available time and space for eight months of the year . |
| 23 | All knowledge , including that about social life , is a product of a specific time and place , both a particular set of social conditions and a particular way of thinking about society . |
| 24 | You ca n't possibly do this job , ’ but his cases were always brought to a conclusion in the minimum time and , more importantly , with the minimum expense . |
| 25 | Usually about two to three weeks before the actual time and date . |
| 26 | The problem essentially is that you have got simultaneously to account credibly for someone not being at a certain place at a certain time and to account for them precisely being there . |
| 27 | ‘ There 's no pecking order , it 's who is in the right place at the right time and who is the strongest , ’ he says . |
| 28 | For a change I was in the right place at the right time and got a job , with housing , at the Folger Theatre in Washington DC . |
| 29 | A murder weapon had been discovered in Parkin 's desk , David Parkin had been in the right place at the right time and he had a conceivable motive to kill the television reporter . |
| 30 | Paul Bodin says he 's been lucky … he 's been in the right place at the right time and has managed to take the chances … |