Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [adj] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 It is , however , a way of living which many wise men have advised against , because if the loved person should not return the love , or be absent for some time , or worst of all , should die , then there is no misery worse than that of someone who has lost their sexually loved partner .
2 The choice of printouts that are available at any time will depend on the type of garment you have designed and the way it is to be knitted .
3 For many of us there are the added problems of the other commitments that are normal at this time of our lives .
4 ( 6 ) No change is acceptable since the status quo is considered to be the best situation that is possible at this time and under these circumstances .
5 The PT instructor barks out his orders with an enthusiasm that is unnatural for this time of the morning .
6 During the party leadership contest much emphasis had been placed in the media on the fact that Major had not had the advantage of a privileged home background or education , that his father had once been a trapeze artist , that his family had lived in a flat in Brixton in South London , and that he had left school at 16 and been unemployed for some time .
7 This was because policy was and is subject to important time lags .
8 At present the system allows a large vocabulary of English words which can be represented in memory with practical size and processing requirements , and is searchable in real time .
9 Practitioners will be aware that transactions at an undervalue can be put aside ( Insolvency Act 1986 , s339 ) if the transferor is adjudged bankrupt within two years of the transaction or if he becomes bankrupt within five years of the transaction and was insolvent at that time or was insolvent by reason of it ( s341 ) .
10 To her horror and my shame I free fell 20 feet , landing on my back next to her , and was unconscious for some time .
11 Ken , however , was more than once seen to go into his bed and fall fast asleep — undoubtedly the pressure of working in the theatre at night and recording Beyond Our Ken on other mornings proved too much and was reminiscent of another time when he fell asleep .
12 The acceptance of these conditions as being worthy of medical time an the tendency to resent scarce resources being used on drug addiction and alcoholism have more to do with fear or disgust than whether or not a condition is demonstrably self-induced .
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