Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Before any enactment existed with regard to actions by solicitors for their costs , a solicitor stood in the same position as any other person who has done work for another at his request , and could sue as soon as the work which he was retained to do was finished , without having delivered any signed bill of costs or waiting for any time after the delivery of such a bill . |
| 2 | There is clear advantage — in terms of time use — in prescribing drugs rather than engaging in more time consuming counselling , or confronting the social origins of the problems . |
| 3 | First , that we have no intention of abandoning public ownership and accepting for all time the present frontier of the public sector . |
| 4 | ‘ You drove to Penzance , leaving home at about seven-thirty , you went to the film and started to drive back , but your van broke down at Badger 's Cross and after trying to start it and sheltering for some time , you walked home , arriving at about half-past two . ’ |
| 5 | A core group of individuals does seem to stay in association with each other over extended periods , although there may be some coming and going within that time . |
| 6 | There 's only one FA Cup Final , one Wimbledon , one Royal Ascot every season , even though there 's plenty of football , tennis and racing at other times . |
| 7 | The disquiet and consternation he had set up among the brothers would go on echoing and re-echoing for some time , while he who had caused it had recoiled into numbness and exhaustion . |
| 8 | Great was the smiting and slaying in short time ; but by reason that the Moors were so great a number , they bore hard upon the Christians , and were in the hour of overcoming them . |
| 9 | It 's not only a working instrument but the kind of guitar that you feel like picking up and playing at any time ; when it 's not wowing the punters it will probably spend its time lying on the sofa permanently on call . |
| 10 | If you do n't you could use an A four pad building up a picture of the guy and trying at some time |
| 11 | For example , if we are to see a major confluence of the world 's financial markets , we need to have prepared our financial structure and planning in good time to take advantage of such changes . |
| 12 | First appearing as tiny black spots on the upper surfaces of leaves , this is the outward sign that the fungus has already been inside the tissue and working for some time . |
| 13 | At hotels near airports and in major cities visitors are arriving and departing at all times with peak periods being the morning departures and arrivals building up during late afternoon and early evening . |
| 14 | Because of the slimness of their bodies it means a shoal of bream , particularly when resting between feeding times , can pack quite tightly together and become a much smaller target than they would present if rotundly shaped . |
| 15 | However , while the condition of struggle with the West Indians remained a constant , at least until 1838 , in providing a rationale for national organisations , how they were conceived as operating at various times , and even at the same time by different reformers , varied significantly . |
| 16 | If at a time before the end of the relevant period any property ceases to be property subject to a reservation , the donor shall be treated for the purposes of the inheritance tax legislation as having at that time made a disposition of the property by way of a potentially exempt transfer ( s102(3) and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 17 | I was curious to see what shrift she would receive in Naipaul 's novel : the work of a man who has been spoken of by an old friend , the novelist Paul Theroux , as having in earlier times been ‘ merciless , solitary , and ( one of his favourite words ) unassailable ’ . |
| 18 | Think of the five other roads as leaving at various times on a clock face ; as already pointed out , all movement on roundabouts is in a clockwise direction . |