Example sentences of "[adj] time [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We had a swell time this week-end . |
| 2 | Despite gaining a second corner during the half , Milton failed to penetrate the home defence and at half time neither side had scored . |
| 3 | I 'm pleased that the Divisional Championship has been on everybody 's lips around this time each year . |
| 4 | It is about this time each day that the boy goes by . ’ |
| 5 | That at this time all material clearly below par will be ‘ weeded out ’ and replaced by new material when available . |
| 6 | But it is at precisely this time that price advantage comes into its own and companies become more willing to switch from existing suppliers if they can cut costs by using a new source . |
| 7 | It was at this time that man 's dawning awareness of it , stimulated his need to preserve his acceptance of the innate goodness of the evolutionary process , that is , his need to have a ‘ god ’ of some sort , that is to ‘ create ’ a God . |
| 8 | Indeed it was at this time that scientism really began to become important , not only in Britain but throughout western Europe , the USA , Russia and Japan . |
| 9 | Most will have discovered by this time that love involves risk . |
| 10 | But this time that feeling of being overpowered , which , in the past , she had been so helplessly prey to , was itself overcome by raw indignation . |
| 11 | But this time that chain of communication broke down . |
| 12 | Rome had at this time little interest in the lands beyond , which lay mainly in the highland zone and were inhabited by the earlier and less civilized peoples . |
| 13 | At about this time another poem of hers , on the death of Lord Aubrey Beauclerk [ q.v. ] , was published anonymously in London . |
| 14 | Lambarde , finding he needed someone to look after his children married again in 1592 , this time another widow , Margaret Reader of Boughton Monchelsea . |
| 15 | Yet all this time this heart is Pamela . |
| 16 | ‘ So by this time this news of yours should also have reached both Ramsey and Worcester , if there have been no further ambushes on the way , as God forbid ! |
| 17 | Well I 'm conscious we kept you a long time this time this morning and I certainly do appreciate your attendance and presence . |
| 18 | British Telecom is putting up some £1 million toward the project including three hours free time each day on OTS . |
| 19 | A : Have you got any free time this morning ? |
| 20 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 21 | Some time that year there occurred a famous meeting at the Vienna Café , in New Oxford Street near the British Museum , when Pound as Binyon 's ‘ bulldog ’ met Wyndham Lewis as the ‘ bulldog ’ of T. Sturge Moore . |
| 22 | One of these possibilities made itself known to J. some time that spring . |
| 23 | She was going , at some time that summer , to follow the Piero della Francesca trail across the Mountains of the Moon to undoubtedly the world 's greatest small picture . |
| 24 | Some time that morning they would have to find somewhere to stay , but at the moment it seemed irrelevant . |
| 25 | Scientists have known for some time that fusion reactions between nuclei of deuterium and tritium are more likely if the nuclear spins line up in the same direction . |
| 26 | CNC machine tool manufacturers have often promoted their products with the claim that they can be operated by unskilled operators , and it was widely believed for some time that engineering companies were taking the opportunity given by the introduction of CNC machine tools to replace skilled craft workers by unskilled or semi-skilled operators on the shop-floor , and putting white-collared technicians in the programming office . |
| 27 | But Marian continued to feel for some time that uneasiness in the legs which she knew meant that she wanted to run , to get away fast . |
| 28 | Set aside some time each day just for you and do whatever you like . |
| 29 | They had bought a house in London so that for some time each year they could be in England , and now , with the baby almost due , Felipe had brought Maggie back . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , radio producers set aside some time each week to meet pluggers . |