Example sentences of "time it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SSC is sometimes keen to be seen as a laboratory for the world , though at other times it remains America 's bid for leadership . |
| 2 | Sometimes , Spiller explained , the grating slid easily , at other times it stuck at an angle . |
| 3 | At times it came very near but , narrowly and not without some years of great misery for most of the labouring population , it was averted . |
| 4 | Fear is an ugly four-letter word yet , at times it takes hold of all of us . |
| 5 | At other times it involves them in working with familiar phenomena . |
| 6 | And three times it come on on and off ! |
| 7 | Sometimes he is oblivious to the sound of aircraft ; other times it panics him . |
| 8 | In the Nursing Times it tells you the |
| 9 | At times it seemed a bit strange to have a university degree and be working so physically hard but in many ways those three years were a very good period . |
| 10 | Rushmere spent 71 balls over his 29 , and at times it seemed as if Wessels and Kirsten were more interested in spending much-needed time in the middle than trying to set a challenging target . |
| 11 | At times it seemed as if most of the students and young teachers were preparing for TOEFL and the major topic of conversation was ‘ going abroad ’ . |
| 12 | At times it seemed that price increases would be favoured as a means of raising self-financing and reducing pressure on the capital market ; at others that rises would be deprecated as contributing to inflation . |
| 13 | The old stone walls closed about her , so that at times it seemed to be suffocatingly hot , and she found herself putting up a hand to her throat . |
| 14 | It was not raining , but at times it seemed that the car would be lifted off the road . |
| 15 | At other times it seemed near to irresponsible madness . |
| 16 | Sometimes it fluttered high , towards her throat ; at other times it seemed confined to her stomach . |
| 17 | Although he admits there were ‘ times it felt like farce — chasing a guy through the woods who was chasing the ghost of his dead father ’ , Bradley nevertheless says there were moments when he was caught up in the atmosphere . |
| 18 | For the college , the experience of developing and mounting the course has been a beneficial one , although at times it felt like self-inflicted punishment ! |
| 19 | In Roman times it became the capital city of the province of Asia and the principal port for all of south-west Anatolia . |
| 20 | Sometimes this obstinacy was the refuge of the poor man who can not afford change and to whom stagnation has become a habit of mind necessary for survival ; at other times it represented a sound rejection of improper techniques culled by ‘ philosophical ’ amateurs from the journals of French and English agricultural societies . |
| 21 | Masklin wondered how many times it had industriously cleaned this corridor , while it waited for nomes to come back … . |
| 22 | When determining the frequency of a particular feature or category , we work out the number of times it occurs per X , where X is some standard measure . |
| 23 | Well , at times it does to me too . |
| 24 | You see them much more as people , you know their interests much more than if they are just there listening to the lesson and so in a way this open access to the teacher , I think , although at times it does give extra pressure in the long run I think it 's tremendously beneficial . |
| 25 | At times it got beyond a joke . |
| 26 | At times it drove his audience to anger and boredom , but he got what he wanted . |
| 27 | Naked emotion grants the work an uneasy power — but at times it feels like special pleading . |
| 28 | Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey were among the first to import them into England , and the painter Hans Holbein has since had a particular type of design named after him because of the number of times it featured in his portraits of Henry and the English Court , Similarly , the Flemish painter Hans Memlinc provides ample pictorial evidence of the passion for oriental rugs in the Netherlands and the Northern Europe . |
| 29 | To give them the benefit of the doubt , this may well be necessitated by their unique position , but at times it appears alarmingly like arrogant behaviour . |
| 30 | Many times it appears to be used so that other qualities of the work — the wide assortment of materials it might be constructed of , say , or the way it is attached to the wall — can take centre stage , much in the way that a black and white photograph allows you to concentrate on matters otherwise obscured or de-emphasized by colour . |