Example sentences of "[adj] time [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time is small compared with the time for a signal at the speed of light to travel from the detectors at one side of the experiment to those , 6 metres away , at the other side . |
| 2 | This time is also affected by their relative polarization and is a minimum when the approaching waves are colinear . |
| 3 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 4 | I conceive many People would be happy with an Art of this kind or at least it would be useful to those who die abroad and are brought back home : I often used to talk of embalming but never seriously took it in hand ‘ til the year before last , which to this time is well preserved . |
| 5 | The history of the house of Armagnac at this time is poorly documented , but a greater dependence upon sources of income , power and influence in the gift of the French crown seems evident . |
| 6 | The schizophrenic duality of the paper at this time is amply illustrated by the ad on the next page . |
| 7 | Now , Darwin at this time is explicitly taking each organism 's ontogeny to recapitulate its phylogeny . |
| 8 | I was assured , though , that this time is seldom adhered to , with most visitors remaining for most of the afternoon . |
| 9 | Much time is often lost in transactions when looking for telephone numbers . |
| 10 | Active volcanism at any one time is normally confined to a limited number of centres within a particular cluster . |
| 11 | And , if it is at all possible , the number of changes which could occur at any one time is better curtailed and staggered . |
| 12 | Perhaps the best approach to reading a proof for the first time is positively to disbelieve each assertion made . |
| 13 | In newspapers , for example , The Financial Times is now printed simultaneously in London , Frankfurt , the USA , and recently Tokyo , thus greatly extending the scope of the market it can serve . |
| 14 | Inside the walls among Medieval and later houses , are considerable remains of Roman buildings and careful excavation in recent times is still disclosing more of the semi-underground parts of the palace itself . |
| 15 | So for grassland farmers , the best time is probably February–March when the ground is moist but can still be run on . |
| 16 | However , for the majority of women , planning intercourse to coincide with ovulation and predicting their most fertile time is easier said than done . |
| 17 | This requires some time to be spent on organising access to playback machines and on introducing teachers to the concept , but that time is well spent as it then frees the tutor to give individual guidance to teachers with problems . |
| 18 | His run at Haydock last time is best ignored as George Duffield got himself jammed in on the rails until too late . |