Example sentences of "times [conj] [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been intermittently active throughout history and may have been even more active in Greek and Roman times than it is now . |
| 2 | What 's more , with so much emphasis placed upon cultivating a creative youth — schools and parents actively promoting music , local radio and TV picking up regional talent , the reasonable cost of good equipment and the ease with which quality demos and records can be made , plus the all-round encouragement young people receive in all recreational pursuits these days — means it was almost certainly harder to break out in those starchy , stifling times than it is now . |
| 3 | However , it 's at these times that we are most punishing to ourselves . |
| 4 | The natural sciences have proved so enormously successful in modern times that they are now commonly regarded as the supremely useful and valid intellectual discipline , and as setting the standard to which all other kinds of enquiry must conform if they are to be taken seriously as dealing with truth and reality . |
| 5 | When he was living in his body , he had it made over so many times that there was hardly any of what he had been born with left . |
| 6 | I mean there 's been a couple of times that he 's really lost his temper with her and erm and , and really flown off the handle , badly . |
| 7 | If she told him once she told him two dozen times that he was quite the perfect host , and that he was n't to take this personally , but she wanted to be back in her own house , her own city , where she would feel most protected from the assassin . |
| 8 | It is a movement he has used many times and which is perhaps seen at its best in the pas de deux to the Meditation from Thai-s created for Anthony Dowell and Antoinette Sibley ; in A Month in the Country when Natalia dances with the Tutor to express her emotions ; and in Les Deux Pigeons in the final pas de deux , when the Young Man has returned to The Girl and tenderly dances with her in his arms ( see page 83 ) . |
| 9 | Russell Mulford says that Mr Vincent has given talks to the Shropshire Railway Society several times and they are always events to look forward to . |
| 10 | I 've seen him a few times and he 's never made a favourable impression on me ! |
| 11 | Every time he walked that 's him come back again and every time he stopped it stopped and this happened a few times and he was very scared and he thought he had better go and see what the noise was and anything well it was just a pet sheep tangled up in its tether . |
| 12 | I have been over her story several times and she is quite positive that she saw Monsieur Erdle walking towards the belvedere at about half past nine , although she is unable to state the precise hour . |
| 13 | I thought Martin Connelly might know , but I 've phoned his office and his home a couple of times and there 's never anyone there . |
| 14 | I 've done it now about four times and I am still scared when I do it . |
| 15 | The children had heard this song many times but they were always sad that it sounded such a lonely song . |
| 16 | It did happen at times but they were usually people who fancied their power , such as city councillors . |
| 17 | He also headed a number of Courtaulds ' textile businesses at different times but it was mainly his knowledge of viscose which earned him a reputation as a leading world authority on the fibre . |
| 18 | They telephoned three times while you were away . ’ |
| 19 | It happened three times while I was there , each in very similar circumstances . |
| 20 | Their design had been changed several times before they were finally erected . |
| 21 | The recommendations of the Royal Commission 's report of 1889 ( Chapter 6 ) were embodied in a Bill which was presented to Parliament , and needed to be introduced four times before it was finally accepted onto the Statute book . |
| 22 | Although he had done it countless times before there was always a risk involved , especially since the introduction of guard dogs trained to sniff out illegal stowaways like himself . |
| 23 | 3 If you are coming back from injury or lay-off , go slowly — train progressively and do not expect to be doing the same times as you were before . |