Example sentences of "[verb] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They recognised the staccato slicing of time , at so many frames per second , as an aggressive march of mechanisation . |
| 2 | The exact unexpired terms of long leases are not so critical , but details must be given of time remaining on shorter leases . |
| 3 | Nice tan developed of times long past |
| 4 | Can you think of times when the desire to covet has gripped your thoughts ? |
| 5 | You should think of time as a resource and , like any resource , it can be squandered or utilised in an effective and efficient manner . |
| 6 | Management , in contrast , must be a continuing process — always ensuring that the best use is made of time , human resource and money , taking up some slack , reinforcing successful practices , reviewing the state of staff development and offering encouragement : " Successful implementation needs continual support . |
| 7 | ‘ Horology is the study or measuring of time or making of clocks ’ — that 's what our dictionary says and the latter is what we do ; we make clocks for a large company called the London Clock Company , but we had very humble beginnings … . |
| 8 | I could boast of times when I have been successful ( been successful ) |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't need that kind of restriction on my playing , and I 've done it loads of times in the past when recording , always having to think , ‘ Well , I ca n't play the F£ there ; I 'll have to go down and play it there . ’ |
| 10 | Jonathan did couple of times . |
| 11 | A plan consists of time , resources and indicated action but the whole is much greater than the sum of the parts . |
| 12 | Although not a Christian , Plotinus was in some respects a forerunner of St Augustine , particularly because he thought of time in psychological terms . |
| 13 | I find it a very useful thing , and I am as bad as the next person at chatting merrily away with little thought of time or the expense of it . |
| 14 | My only reservation about this book is that it is too reticent about her loneliness and attraction towards women in what were not the most sexually enlightened of times . |
| 15 | Then build yourself a garden bench , where you can sit and dream of times past . |
| 16 | Popular parlance spoke of Time as a medium wherein one had a certain independence of movement quite at variance with scientific dogma . |
| 17 | But we usually think of time as hours and minutes and seconds too if we are being very exact . |
| 18 | Perhaps at night they shared them , talking of times long past . |
| 19 | When Boswell had completed his own adventuring on Raasay , he turned his attention , as usual , to making Dr Johnson sparkle : ‘ Let me now gather some gold dust — some more fragments of Dr Johnson 's conversation , without regard to order of time . ’ |