Example sentences of "a time to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively , a courier will smuggle often millions of pounds at a time to a country where banking secrecy offers greater protection . |
| 2 | It was quite different , however , when through parental death or disaster a grandchild went for a time to be brought up by grandparents . |
| 3 | June Barraclough 's A Time to Love ( Methuen , £12.95 ) spans both World Wars and paints a vivid picture of the loves and sorrows of the characters in the lives of two women friends . |
| 4 | He went for a time to Australia , then jumped ship in Cape Town ( which caused a scandal ) and was subsequently cared for by his uncle Willy , Theunis 's younger son . |
| 5 | ‘ EASTER is a time to be joyful , communion is a time to be sad . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ EASTER is a time to be joyful , communion is a time to be sad . ’ |
| 7 | The Greek word eucharisto means to rejoice and give thanks , so the Eucharist or communion is hardly a time to be sad . |
| 8 | With the retirement of Thomas Goldney the firm reverted for a time to Pountney and Co , and eventually became known simply as the Bristol Pottery until its cessation in the 1960s . |
| 9 | Last week we cheekily compared Melvyn Bragg 's love scenes from A Time To Dance with those of Jackie Collins , Harold Robbins et al . |
| 10 | * Technical note : like last week to ensure a fair contest , all extracts have been given the same epistolary format that Bragg used in A Time To Dance . |
| 11 | We have two signed hardback copies from Hodder & Stoughton of A Time To Dance to give away . |
| 12 | Consequently , Nos. 1–16 were removed one at a time to Sutton depôt , where the track brake gear was removed and fitted to 36–43 , which took their place at Penge depôt . |
| 13 | After a few weeks , they were sent away one at a time to Hendon Works for repainting and returned renumbered 345–347 . |
| 14 | We needed a time to be fed from the Word of God . |
| 15 | Antibiotics are also prescribed for acne treatment and need to be given for several months at a time to be effective . |
| 16 | The Brahman Centre for learning mental skills is in Provence and you 'll be one of a select few at a time to be taught these techniques . |
| 17 | I understand that the electronic intarsia carriage selects the needles for only one colour at a time to the intarsia position , making it easy for you to lay in the appropriate colour . |
| 18 | But what a time to be thinking of Christmas decorations , her mind a tangle of hollyberries and gaudy poinsettias , red as blood . |
| 19 | Young had spent all day here , moseying between the three-room Mayfair hotel suite , talking for 40 minutes at a time to every journalist lined up to see him . |
| 20 | The couple returned to the Howard estate at Cardington in Bedfordshire at first but moved for a time to Lymington on the Hampshire coast later , for the sake of her health . |
| 21 | They were hauled alongside and manoeuvred one at a time to a position where they could be hauled aboard , encumbered by their diving equipment . |
| 22 | The childhood objects were not only lovely in themselves , they were a link with some past and pleasantly remembered time , a time not violently shrugged off and rejected , but a time to be lived with , in happy recollection , a time which could well bear remembering . |
| 23 | Because she was an ebullient , high-profile blonde , married for a time to comedian Jim Davidson , she had occasionally to live with some embarrassing publicity . |
| 24 | A student 's life is ruled by the clock : there 's a time to be up and about if you want breakfast ; a time to be in college for a lecture or tutorial ; a time by which you must hand in an essay or project report ; a time to study and a time to relax . |
| 25 | A student 's life is ruled by the clock : there 's a time to be up and about if you want breakfast ; a time to be in college for a lecture or tutorial ; a time by which you must hand in an essay or project report ; a time to study and a time to relax . |
| 26 | Although such testimony is important , it is a little unfortunate that Dobson 's influence led for a time to an undervaluing of occasional spellings , rhymes and puns . |
| 27 | Exploitation of the alluvial deposits of the Altai still further east allowed Russia to displace Brazil and for a time to be the world 's leading producer of gold . |
| 28 | conclude on the basis of recent work on tachistoscopic word recognition that , at least with single-syllable words exposed one at a time to left or right visual hemifield , artefacts due to directional scanning contribute little if anything to hemifield asymmetry . |
| 29 | It 's not a time to be on your own , truly … |
| 30 | ‘ Tell the housekeeper she must count the needles , and only give out one at a time to the girls — they lose them so easily ! |