Example sentences of "time [pers pn] [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her spare time she also plays the piano and harp and goes horse-riding . |
| 2 | All the time she wildly imagines him being unfaithful to her in a thousand trivial ways . |
| 3 | And every time she never pays for them no one . |
| 4 | We surfed that channel in half the time it normally takes and then towards the end of our Connemara trip , even after a couple of longer crossings where she admitted she was cursing the disappearing stern of my glassfibres boat , she wanted to buy the Seayak . |
| 5 | the number of virtual memory segments that are resident in real storage at the time it either finishes with the processor or exceeds the time slice allocated to it w |
| 6 | In a provocative comparison of the failures of the French and Russian revolutions , he argued that the problem stemmed from the fact that no class , whether proletarian or bourgeoisie , can become the ruling class without taking upon itself something of the historical role of a ruling class — especially if at the same time it also considers that , history carries within itself its own cure' : |
| 7 | Breaking an organization down into smaller units ( work groups ) in order to cope adequately with the diversity of tasks that face it , creates opportunities to develop task interests and special know-how , but , at the same time it also creates rivalries and competing interests which can be damaging to the organization 's mission . |
| 8 | At the same time it also indicates a polarisation of national identities . |
| 9 | At the same time it also has to adjust to market leaders in the private and voluntary sectors and to public interest groups . |
| 10 | At the same time it also illustrates the practical purpose narrative theory may have for the reading of individual works of literature . |
| 11 | He has planned his reunion with her for so long , that it almost ceases to become real by the time it actually occurs . |
| 12 | He 's got a little bit of a split lip cos every time he either smiles a lot or bangs it slightly it just opens up . |
| 13 | This time he genuinely believes there is nothing more he could have done , ’ said a colleague . |
| 14 | But at the same time he totally disagrees with the way she has given the banks a free hand to put resources behind new ‘ non-industries ’ such as the service industries , and concentrate economic wealth in the south . |
| 15 | At the same time he rightly argues that it is premature to conceive of a cycle of decentralization since that might ‘ presuppose the existence of one single major engine behind the process and suggest the possibility of the recurrence of a similar round of developments in the future ’ ( pp. 35–6 ) . |
| 16 | And enjoys a perfect night 's sleep — deep , clear , and refreshing , like gliding down through sunlit water on a hot day ; such a perfect night 's sleep that he is entirely unconscious of how much he is enjoying it , or of its depth , clarity , and refreshingness , or its resemblance to gliding through sunlit water on a hot day ; so perfect that from time to time he half wakes , just enough to become conscious of how unconscious of everything he is . |
| 17 | This argument , which Foucault derives from Deleuze , although at the same time he tellingly invokes Sartre 's theoretical formulation designed to solve exactly the same problem , provides a way of avoiding the incommensurability of the relation of the event to the concept by allowing ‘ the disjunctive affirmation of both ’ — thus solving the problem that the concept , as a part of the language of generality , will inevitably travesty the event 's singularity : |