Example sentences of "[adj] the time for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Roy Hughes : With Welsh coalfields in a near terminal condition , with massive redundancies in the steel industry , including a major closure , is this the time for the Government to come forward with proposals to double the toll on the Seven bridge , our main access point ? |
| 2 | He waited a long while , looking out all the time for Caspar . |
| 3 | I wondered how these men had managed to endure thirty or more trips in what must have been far worse conditions than this ; in bad weather , being shot at , having to concentrate on map reading and peering through bomb sites , and watching out all the time for enemy fighters . |
| 4 | Some mothers answer all the time for the children , which makes the Committee think the child lacks initiative . ’ |
| 5 | We use them all the time for going places . |
| 6 | And although it may be true that readers of Hot Press for example , are n't led by sexual ignorance into seeing man and woman only as adversaries , there also are those girls who are forced to go to England all the time for abortions and they ca n't be that far from the world I depict . |
| 7 | He had hoped that the project would foster greater continuity between children 's experience of learning in primary school , and their experience in the comprehensive : I want to get away from [ a didactic approach ] , to the pupils taking more responsibility for work they produce and being more autonomous in the way that they do it and hoping to create more responsibility in them rather than them seeking the teacher all the time for information ; and thinking that all knowledge and information and values have to be teacher judged … |
| 8 | But he was offhand with me and seemed to be waiting all the time for me to go out . |
| 9 | We stopped all the time for no reason . |
| 10 | but er , I think most of the time the wedding in here is much more geared for how the bride look like and photographer , it is all the time for four hours , how you stand , it 's nothing normal , noth nothing natural , nothing |
| 11 | The Persian listened carefully all the time for strange noises . |
| 12 | Trembling violently he swallowed the brandy and ate the food like a hunted animal , looking around him all the time for danger . |
| 13 | He took care never to stay with her for more than twenty minutes , obeying both the spirit and the letter of Anthony 's orders , but he tried to give her a clear account of the eight days Kesselring had spent in the witness box , watching her face all the time for signs of boredom or exhaustion . |
| 14 | Fortunately during the first few months of our marriage Bernard , how shall I put it , practised asceticism — I had no chance of getting pregnant , or very little , and after that he was converted to Marxism , and though we were at it all the time for years , he stood over me daily to make sure I ingested a contraceptive chemical . |
| 15 | We are together all the time for weeks and months on end . |
| 16 | Ask the same people all the time for help or money . |
| 17 | Erm , just that , first of all the time for |
| 18 | Now if I stood here all the time for two days and presented to you just standing here do your eyes move have to move if you 're watching me all the time your eyes are fixed are n't they in one position ? |
| 19 | That 's , that 's true , eh , I mean the alloy in the other ones have to be quite crafty when you get up to twenty two carat for example and eh , very eh , eh , large chunk of gold in it , and it can indeed be very soft , but then you see that 's an eighteen carat ring that I 've had for , worn , all the time for twenty four years |