Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | X. Ray 's unshowy steadiness was right for the low time in which he newly found himself — he could put the fire out . |
| 2 | These remain unused for the entire time that the child is in nappies . |
| 3 | Last year he soloed the Eiger nordwand direct in the amazing time of 26 hours — the first ascent took three months ! |
| 4 | Am I sufficiently interested in my question or topic to keep me interested over the necessary time period ? |
| 5 | By their reasons the justices stated that the girl would continue to be liable to sexual abuse if allowed to return to her family as the mother refused to recognise the responsibility of the father for that abuse and that the mother would not protect the girl from the father on whom the mother was emotionally dependent ; that they had considered that the girl might be cared for by her half-sister but had concluded that it would be difficult to prevent contact between the girl and her father ; that they had formed the view that contact between the girl and her father would be harmful at the present time and therefore the local authority should refuse such contact until the review by the local authority in six months time ; and that there should be supervised reasonable contact between the girl and her mother and between the girl and her half-sister . |
| 6 | Of course during the er during the course of this year we will be considering prototypes which will enable those young people to reach that high level of qualification but he will be aware that under the national training and education target there are some of those targets which are directly related to the points that he has raised and the important priority for this government is to ensure not only that we have young people training to an even higher level but through programmes like investors in people , that we encourage every member of the work force and those er who are primarily unemployed at the present time , to train to even higher levels of qualifications . |
| 7 | MIKE GATTING yesterday warned his England team-mates that the winter tour 's second leg in Sri Lanka will be not be easy after the torrid time in India . |
| 8 | This alternative was also deemed impossible in the limited time available . |
| 9 | For stepping rates where the phase is only excited for a time similar to the winding time constant , however , the wave form [ Fig.5 .2(b) ] is considerably distorted by the nearly exponential rise and decay of the phase current . |
| 10 | … the correct comparison is not with any man but with an hypothetical man who would also be unavailable at the critical time . |
| 11 | It can , none the less , cut out many of the worst frustrations : material that takes hours to trace , is never found , or is unavailable at the right time ; teacher-made material that takes too long , is botched in process or inexpertly designed ; equipment that does n't work , or works badly , or is preempted by someone else at the crucial moment ; timetables that do n't , when it comes to the point , allow sufficient flexibility ; help that one feels ought to be available but somehow never is . |
| 12 | It would be particularly appropriate at the present time to pay more attention to this aspect , and to obtain better information about crofters ' levels of living , including the subsistence component and remittances from emigrants . |
| 13 | ‘ The committee endorses this action by the licensing authority ’ , Goldberg 's letter goes on , ‘ and considers that , in the light of the apparent safety hazard , suspension of the licence is appropriate at the present time ’ . |
| 14 | It seems appropriate at the present time , therefore , that the suspicion of PVI , particularly in patients with decompensated liver disease as indicated by the presence of an appreciably reduced portal blood flow , needs to be confirmed by conventional arterial portography . |
| 15 | You have over DM 50 million tied up in the project but you are very patient about the eventual time of launch . |
| 16 | It is clear in talking to Walter , as he nears the end of his career , that while he has greatly enjoyed his job working with students , he is saddened by the fact that prospects for young people are not very promising at the present time . |
| 17 | The reason they were picked ( aside from those who are here by right of birth ) is that a small portion of their total brain power was visibly alight at the right time and in the right place . |
| 18 | Oh which is the one that is pregnant with the terrible time ? |
| 19 | Eva had already been promoted to major before the usual time . |
| 20 | Show that the mean value of the force F between the two rings ( i.e. averaged over the periodic time of the alternating current ) is given by |
| 21 | On the morning of the operation , Mr Reynolds was allowed nothing to eat or drink ( for 6 hours prior to the scheduled time for the surgery ) . |
| 22 | But Brewer has an uncanny knack of getting injured at the wrong time and so hooker Sean Fitzpatrick will be in charge for the first time . |
| 23 | The only one of the top four never to lift the crown , White , a 9–2 shot , is building confidence on coming good at the right time , winning the British and European Opens . |
| 24 | Although no separate figures are yet available on short-term care facilities , the consensus is that they are inadequate at the present time . |
| 25 | It is that a person who takes another 's car ‘ can escape liability to tougher sentences only if he or she can show , on the balance of probabilities , that either the aggravating event occurred before he or she committed [ the basic s. 12 offence ] , or that he or she was not present at the relevant time . ’ |
| 26 | Section 16(1) in the unamended form applicable at the relevant time stated : ‘ Where a term of a contract purports to exclude or restrict liability for breach of duty arising in the course of any business or from the occupation of any premises used for business premises of the occupier that term … ( b ) shall … have no effect if it was not fair and reasonable to incorporate the term in the contract . ’ |
| 27 | Trust takes time to develop and is not always possible in the short time available for pre-operative preparation . |
| 28 | I had hope to find a single sponsor , but this has not proved possible in the short time we 've had . |
| 29 | I had hoped to find a single sponsor , but this has not proved possible in the short time available . |
| 30 | Then he attacked with venom and had Thornton looking troubled for the only time in the fight . |