Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not necessarily using time which are a lot more something where they 're completed . |
| 2 | I went through everyday life merely marking time until I could leave Ireland for Britain to become the real me . |
| 3 | Is your money actually growing or merely marking time ? |
| 4 | CUT DOWN MARKING TIME |
| 5 | A new Marking Kit cuts down marking time dramatically . |
| 6 | ‘ While we would hope the money we are spending at the moment is proving to be cost-effective , at the end of the day electronic security is really only buying time , ’ said Mr Banks . |
| 7 | Perhaps having time was the right beginning ? |
| 8 | The Gulf crisis , though not formally on the agenda , took up much debating time . |
| 9 | Madden has been used in short bursts during the Bombers ' opening games and the ruckman has complained that he has not been given enough playing time and that this is affecting his play . |
| 10 | The standard also leaves room for mains powered home recorders , on the same format , which will offer enough playing time for enthusiasts to tap television programmes or watch pre-recorded films . |
| 11 | I have a Rule of Life ( No. 74 , actually ) which says that you can work your way out of most situations if you can give yourself enough thinking time . |
| 12 | ‘ I have just changed jobs and have trouble enough arranging time off to fly back and forward from Scotland . |
| 13 | Fowler inaugurated the introduction of line production in locomotive repairs , greatly reducing time spent in workshops , and a firm standardization programme to reduce as rapidly as possible the 393 individual locomotive types inherited by the LMS . |
| 14 | You 're just wasting time . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're just wasting time . |
| 16 | been attacked over the last few months of not wasting time on the hunt I spend an awful lot of time relieving heavy goods traffic in my area , concerned totally about the environment , about mineral extraction quarries , mining , open cast , things of that calibre . |
| 17 | The gulls that screeched warning to their fellows as she approached too near their territory frightened her , but since this was not nesting time , none spat . |
| 18 | The rotary encoder makes light work of selecting the various effects and parameters and the keypad 's addition of ‘ Patch Recall ’ is useful in the studio ( you can dial a patch number on the keypad , thus saving time running through the encoder ) . |
| 19 | Small items of cash are kept out of the cash book , thus saving time and space . |
| 20 | As you gain experience some of the checking can well be done by listening to the recording , thus saving time working with the LH . |
| 21 | The database may take quite some time to establish , but if networked it will enable scientific , garden , library and photographic staff to check for the existence of a slide before new work is undertaken , thus saving time and money . |
| 22 | It suggested that the system was not just marking time but actually losing ground in some areas : |
| 23 | On one level they were just marking time , spending a few days in the country at a friend 's house . |
| 24 | It is always good practice to synchronise times with suppliers ' delivery schedules thus minimising time between order and delivery which also minimises stock holding requirement . |
| 25 | He was really just buying time before having to deal with Patrizia Valesio . |
| 26 | there , I do n't know , I do n't know what you 're gon na do , cos whatever it is you 're not doing it , it 's just letting time go by are n't ya , treading water if you like . |
| 27 | All these provisions apply to listed buildings ( of which in 1985 there were 380,000 in England , 33,000 in Scotland , and 10,600 in Wales ) but the secretary of state has power to list a building at any time , and local authorities can serve a ‘ building preservation notice ’ on an unlisted building ; this has the effect of protecting the building for six months , thus giving time for considering whether or not it should be listed . |
| 28 | This might well have saved them not just travelling time , but also energy . |
| 29 | She spent a leisurely morning doing some school work , reading the newspapers and then finally taking time dressing for her lunch party . |
| 30 | The concentration of essential oil in plants is highest during warm weather and this is the best collecting time . |