Example sentences of "the time to " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt they see themselves as devoted middlewomen , bringing the truly important work of the time to the avid masses , but all they are really doing , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is fucking up the lives of both sets of people . |
| 2 | This is not the time to be thinking about what the chief instructor is going to think or say . |
| 3 | He still felt naked and drained after the speech , yet now was the time to be weaving more individuals firmly into thy spreading fabric . |
| 4 | The whole unit had to be dismantled to allow a new base to be fitted — a costly and time-consuming disaster , which taught me that 11pm on Saturday , at the end of a tiring day , is not the time to be doing d-i-y ! |
| 5 | Successful , Booker Prize-winning women novelists such as Anita Brookner or Penelope Lively , for example , did not reflect the feminist awareness of the time to any marked extent . |
| 6 | In studying a period and a phase in which what could be proved at the time to be shadows were so determinedly pursued , is he after all studying not an aberration , not a deviation from the normal , but the common behaviour of mankind ? |
| 7 | But the time to ‘ recognise ’ it image by image had gone ; just as the moments of each day fade away , so I 'd forgotten it . |
| 8 | One British reaction at the time to the greening of the Kremlin shows quite starkly how much political perceptions have changed in the short space since the autumn of 1988 . |
| 9 | It was n't the time to be playing silly games . |
| 10 | Although in the oases they made gardens , perhaps even carried on other spare-time occupations , they were forbidden to trade and did not have the time to be truck drivers . |
| 11 | I recently purchased what I believed , at the time to be a Perkins 4203 diesel engine together with the appropriate conversion kit . |
| 12 | Joyce 's use of stream of consciousness was often thought at the time to be an achievement so outstanding as to deter imitation : Ezra Pound , for example , suggested , ‘ Ulysses is , presumably … unrepeatable … you can not duplicate it ’ ( Pound 1922 : 625 ) . |
| 13 | The run used to be three miles but I added a quarter mile spur in order to use the time to best advantage . |
| 14 | The two men said nothing at the time to their wives , but a day or two later , the question of an evening of cards cropped up . |
| 15 | The first photographic record dates from December 1961 , when film-maker Bruce Brown shot Phil Edwards — considered by many at the time to be the best surfer in the world — on a six-to eight-foot west swell . |
| 16 | The resulting document , the Bourdillon Report , proved at the time to be one of the most useful that had appeared about the bookstocks of British public libraries , since it contained studies of existing provision and a series of recommendations on acceptable standards for provision in the future . |
| 17 | But by crossing direct in this way she could more than halve the time to the keeper 's cottage , and this might mean that the keeper could get to the West Wood in time to capture the deer-stealers before they drove away . |
| 18 | Father Devlin decided this was the time to be mute and neutral . |
| 19 | The publishing world would be badly hit if politicians did not bring forth their diaries from time to time , showing just how they reacted at the time to particular world events . |
| 20 | This openness also showed that in relation to science the consultative process revealed massive support for the working party 's view on the time to be devoted to science and on the position of balanced science but that the Council , with some reluctance , made recommendations in accordance with the Secretary of State 's different view . |
| 21 | The four-and-a-half gallons of oil take about ten minutes to warm up to the minimum 40°C , and we used the time to taxi around the sheltered bay within Calshot Split , checking for debris and driftwood and surveying the area . |
| 22 | It could appropriate 100 per cent of the time to its own business and utterly stifle debate by the opposition . |
| 23 | ‘ It seemed so at the time to myself , ’ admitted Edward ruefully . |
| 24 | At home , while Ministers are careful not to use such words as ‘ green shoots ’ in public , they use them off the record all the time to political journalists , who dutifully pass the message on to the reading public . |
| 25 | Thirdly it helps to be specific about the tasks to be undertaken and the time to be allocated to them . |
| 26 | In interviews though , I said I was on the dole because it was very trendy at the time to be on the dole as far as the music press was concerned . |
| 27 | Then came the time to really pick up the slack once more . |
| 28 | The time to be and the time to brood : that is what he wanted . |
| 29 | As we have seen , by 1948 the British government seemed to have modified its attitude , and many thought the time to be more propitious for attempting to pull Britain more firmly within the European orbit . |
| 30 | The time to publication depends partly on how many papers we accept . |