Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've done nothing but read thrillers since the exams , apart from watching videos and playing patience to kill time . |
| 2 | As before , W denotes weight , but this time fresh or dry weight as suitable ; T denotes time : — |
| 3 | The supply of labour is assumed to be a fixed fraction of the total population , to be exogenously determined , and to grow exponentially at rate n : or where u denotes time , and L the derivative with respect to time . |
| 4 | You 've got £30 to spend and 2½ hours cooking time : how do you make a three course meal for four within these constraints ? |
| 5 | For a more serious snack , aficionados make time to study the delicatessen counter before ordering . |
| 6 | In the case of income tax , any change involves time consuming revisions to PAYE codings . |
| 7 | However , unlike online searching , there is no charge for computer connect time . |
| 8 | The Enlightenment period is very much a Prayer and Liturgy centred time . |
| 9 | To assist the management in organising staff , shifts , holidays and rotas utilising time and equipment a useful statistic is calculating the average length of stay of the guest . |
| 10 | CHRISTIE has time to raise his arms in triumph as he crosses the line for his 100-metres win — with clear daylight between him and the pack . |
| 11 | After that the narrative has time only for Jacob . |
| 12 | The skin needs time to settle down after these treatments in order to absorb the essential oils more efficiently . |
| 13 | Particularly in the sonnets where the Poet confronts time and age , we find the affirmation that his verse will perpetuate the Friend 's memory to eternity , and it follows — as history has indeed shown — that his verse itself , and the poet who wrote it , are also guaranteed immortality . |
| 14 | Invalid Repeat Time specified in configuration file |
| 15 | These animals perceive time very differently during their resting and active phases . |
| 16 | Note : If you lower the pitch attitude too rapidly — before the speed has time to increase — then you will lose height since the lower speeds do not produce enough lift to maintain height with the wings at the lower angle of attack in the normal cruise level flight attitude . |
| 17 | Heavy demands are placed on schools to find time in the curriculum for a wide range of individually worthwhile activities and difficult decisions have to be made about priorities . |
| 18 | But for this to work , if it happens , Gaza needs time , money and freedom from violence . |
| 19 | Context is relied on much more often than in English or Bali to establish time reference . |
| 20 | Peer of the prison cell has time on his hands |
| 21 | Drinkers cheer time travel plan ! |
| 22 | The problem of criticising the work in exhibiting societies ' shows is how little space is made available in newspapers for its coverage ; the critic has time to mention a painter or a sculptor , make a brief observation , and then passes on . |
| 23 | Until now this final result involved time and effort on the part of the host . |
| 24 | Apart from what sounds like a fairly hectic studio schedule , I wondered if Clem found time to get out and play live . |
| 25 | Candidates from 3 of the Parties found time for Christian Aid also . |
| 26 | Nobody barred as Evelyn Glennie beats time at Craiginches |
| 27 | The Livingstones and Crichtons did this in 1439 , when they seized James II and then settled down to squabble for the next decade ; the Boyds did the same thing with James III ; and Angus found time , despite his matrimonial problems with Margaret Tudor , to get possession of James V in 1526 and dominate politics for the last two years of the minority . |
| 28 | Adopting a hierarchical standpoint and preferring to speak in terms of ‘ life ’ rather than ‘ motion ’ , Plotinus regarded time as an intermediate between eternity ( or the higher soul that contemplates eternity ) and the motion of the universe which reveals time as the ‘ life ’ ( or creative power ) of ‘ soul ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ The training pamphlet says time spent on reconnaissance is seldom wasted . ’ |
| 30 | The history of the royal succession shows time and again that a prince had to prove himself in order to be sure of inheriting a kingdom , and the process of building up a following and prestige was likely to cause some conflict . |