Example sentences of "[adj] of the time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As has been said , these are essential data for the story , and some of the time they seem to be confirmed . |
| 2 | Or some of the time I 've been sitting there in the bed feeding the baby , you know |
| 3 | Much of the time we are reacting with unwanted stress because we are afraid of doing damage to our own self-concept . |
| 4 | ‘ I think it is true that much of the time we spent together we were going over our lines early in the morning in the make-up room . ’ |
| 5 | We 're there for the Na-Nazi riots — but for too much of the time we 're not . |
| 6 | For much of the time they slept and when she was n't sleeping Diana frequently visited the kitchens , the domain of ‘ Swampie ’ Marsh and fellow chefs . |
| 7 | It was built in 1490 and for much of the time it was owned by the Darrel family . |
| 8 | For much of the time it took me through farmland , amidst the pleasant aroma of meadows , and often I found myself slowing the Ford to a crawl to better appreciate a stream or a valley I was passing . |
| 9 | And for much of the time it follows the Minchmoor Road , an ancient drove road which was also used by Scottish monarchs staying at Traquair House . |
| 10 | The period is 313 days , and the range from 5.4 to 10.5 , so that for much of the time it is out of binocular range . |
| 11 | Much of the time it is an unsightly mud-channel . |
| 12 | Much of the time she could only be ridden towards her dinner bucket ; any other direction except backwards produced complete refusal . |
| 13 | For much of the time she was delirious , but there were lucid intervals , during which she was slightly comforted to understand that the nightmares that had tormented her were products of the disease and not of reality . |
| 14 | She proved to be the Glisseuse , a rather shabby forty foot motor cruiser , difficult to see on Venturous ' radar , so that much of the time she had to be kept at visual distance , especially as she approached the busy traffic lanes of the Thames . |
| 15 | It needed to be , too , for much of the time she was pushing her way through undergrowth and around patches of thicket too dense for them to penetrate . |
| 16 | They were with Mr Mandela until 10pm , much of the time he and Mrs Sisulu simply recalling their old days together and recounting what they had done all these years . |
| 17 | Much of the time he stayed hidden in his study . |
| 18 | Lear was doubtless unhappy during much of the time he worked for Gould ; he was also constantly unwell , often in desperate financial straits , and had been finding lithography an increasing strain on his eyesight and his nerves . |
| 19 | Ironically , however , of those 71% of accountants who would like to have more holiday entitlement , 42.7% did n't even manage to use all of the time they were due at present . |
| 20 | All of the time they 're introverted without ever alienating , able to craft an elegiac atmosphere that 's pretty all-enveloping , subtly freaked rather than self-consciously freaked out . |
| 21 | The little double planet Pluto has such a weird orbit that , even though almost all of the time it is by a long way the furthest known planet from the Sun , occasionally ( as at the time of writing ) it is closer to the Sun than is Neptune . |
| 22 | I thought he was simply jealous of the time I spent with her , instead of sitting on the other side of the gas fire , knitting or darning socks while he marked his school books . |
| 23 | You do , in fact , dream , for up to one fifth of the time you 're asleep . |
| 24 | It applies to all goods in the categories listed in the box , irrespective of the time they have been in a country . |
| 25 | At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers . |
| 26 | At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers . |
| 27 | And with son Peter living at Norwich , he and his wife can travel there in a third of the time it would take by road . |
| 28 | Wednesday , who was now Saturday , helped in the search but most of the time they ended up playing in the corridors . |
| 29 | Most of the time they will not need a tangible reward like an extra sweet or a trip to the park . |
| 30 | Most of the time they could n't hear anything because of the engine . |