Example sentences of "time and [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 This takes quite a long time and slowly the boat turns around .
2 Born in 1900 , it was one of the greatest heavy horse breeding stallions of all time and probably the most famous .
3 In general , a national strategy evolves and changes over time and ultimately the detailed nature of the strategy adopted by a country is unique to that country .
4 Time and again a landowner , the man who actually has the most to lose since it is his land , is willing to donate corners of his fields for ponds or tree planting , as his contribution to the environmental compromise of a land-drainage scheme ; but then a letter from his agent arrives , demanding that these corners be heavily compensated or even bought by the water authority , as payment for the concessions made .
5 Time and again a permissive present is contrasted with the not too distant past .
6 Time and again the Conservative politicians we approached would talk in private frankly and openly about the problems they foresaw for their party .
7 Time and again the images have a distilled beauty : the simple two-shot before the battle in which Krishna explains to the warrior Arjuna that ‘ Victory and defeat , pleasure and pain are all the same ’ , the sight of the nagaswaram ( the shawm-like musical instruments ) echoing their peals to the skies , Karna 's golden lance speeding through the air on its momentous flight to pierce the green-bellied Ghatotkatcha .
8 Time and again the IBA proved itself a sucker to serious-sounding prospectuses , awarding franchise to London Weekend Television and the new breakfast television service , TVAM , only for them to turn out complete flops which later recouped their investment by lowering standards .
9 Time and again the Romans were stirred by the love of liberty and faction , which is a central feature of the whole urban renaissance , to rise against the pope and send him packing .
10 Voted time and again the world 's best airport in business traveller polls .
11 Time and again the new Phoenix King proved his cunning as a general .
12 Certainly , time and again the evidence suggests rigidity of attitudes and practices as industry 's most apparent characteristics .
13 Many deficiencies can be made good from alternative sources : time and again the Valor Ecclesiasticus , compiled barely a decade later , gives virtually the same values as the survey for Church properties .
14 time and again the Ministerial contribution to penal policy-making … lies not in the Minister 's bringing in his own fresh policy ideas , but in his operating creatively and with political drive upon ideas , proposals , reports , etc. , that are , so to speak , already to hand , often within the department but sometimes in the surrounding world of penal thought .
15 Time and again the bumps lifted us off our feet .
16 Time and again the report came back " Too British . "
17 Time and again the government had asserted that Britain was only supplying ‘ 15 per cent in value ’ of Nigerian armaments .
18 Time and again the women stressed their loss of independence and with that loss came frustration , insecurity and a sense of worthlessness ‘ commensurate with that which men experience over the loss of their breadwinner status ’ ( Coyle , 1984 , p. 107 ) .
19 Using more than planned : Time and again the family member gives more time and money and other forms of support to the primary sufferer than he or she can afford or than was intended .
20 Time and again the complaint from articulate working class women 's groups about husbands was not of ill-treatment or economic neglect , but rather of lack of sympathy and understanding .
21 This was something we had to put a stop to straight away , and after relaying time and again the simple formula TMPF : TRIM — MIXTURE — PITCH — FLAPS , which he repeated , he always forgot to take action .
22 Time and again the English ball carrier was either hurled back or buried in the tackle .
23 Let me put it this way , I 'm doing the one job in the world which I really want to do , which I love — and work to me is pleasure , so I do n't have very much time and even the things I do in a way are relaxation .
24 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 .
25 These inner faculties provide both the ability to reasonably organise one 's daily survival in time and also the means by which God is known .
26 He could even — and unlike many heroes of Rincewind 's acquaintance — speak words of more than two syllables , if given time and maybe a hint or two .
27 But then there is one lounge suit , passed on to me in 1931 or 1932 by Sir Edward Blair — practically brand new at the time and almost a perfect fit — which might well be appropriate for evenings in the lounge or dining room of any guest houses where I might lodge .
28 There are ( thankfully ) fewer ‘ guitar ’ sounds this time and quite a few spacey ‘ pads ’ .
29 To avoid a reputation for being unreasonable , allow a strict margin of five minutes over the starting time and absolutely no more .
30 Between each excitation change the processor executes a WAIT instruction , in which the delay value is counted down to zero ; high delay values produce a long delay time and therefore a low stepping rate .
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