Example sentences of "for time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases it may be necessary to apply for time limits to be abridged . |
| 2 | But where R(s) is the autocorrelation coefficient for time delay s . |
| 3 | I 'll tell you this … three times before he went , Michael asked me for time to go up to London and said he was having problems with his visa . |
| 4 | Mr Meyer said after a three-day meeting with leaders of Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi 's conservative Inkatha party that they had asked for time to consult party officials before the start of the planning conference . |
| 5 | Gooch declared on 304 for six , 17 runs behind Lancashire 's first innings total just before tea in an attempt to make up for time lost because of Friday 's wash-out . |
| 6 | In the last trial of activists linked to the pro-democracy movement which ended in the massacre in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ] , the poet and theorist Wu Jiaxing was sentenced on Aug. 25 to three years ' imprisonment for " counter-revolutionary incitement and propaganda " , and then released for time served . |
| 7 | I readily acknowledge the need for time to debate the Bill in Committee . |
| 8 | We wait for time to test Constance Cumbey 's prophecy that the New Age is the herald of the Antichrist . |
| 9 | There were would be no such thing as time , either , in this situation , because for time to exist there must be events . |
| 10 | Whether Eubank can ever actually get around the fact that boxing attracts crowds because people love to see two men beating each other up is for time to decide . |
| 11 | Calls full of anguish , of him confessing his love for her , while imploring for time to explore his spiritual struggle . |
| 12 | Yeah , really it 's a frustrating end of it , but working for Time gives me the opportunity to be in these countries and to do a good photoreportage on the country , even though it 's very rarely published . |
| 13 | He determined beforehand that he would not mention to Fisher his longing for time to read books . |
| 14 | Emergency Communist party congress makes radical break with the past East German leader pleads for time to reform state . |
| 15 | He asked for time to consider , but this was brushed aside and Nu , willy-nilly , became MP for Mergui , a place he had never previously visited . |
| 16 | The delay was with the approval of District Council at the request of the developer , who asked for time to consider if Hill could be improved . |
| 17 | Who would have thought that even at the beginning of this century the poet felt the need for time to stand still . |
| 18 | Juggling roles , plagued by meetings and money worries , on 24-hour call to the parish or their priests , desperate for time to write their books or even to think , they resemble , as indeed they must , their counterparts in the modern business world . |
| 19 | As for Vivian ( Lord ) Bowden I can only report that he once offered me a job in what was to become UMIST and was particularly accommodating when I asked for time to think about it . |
| 20 | He demurred , he asked for time to think , to consult his wife , to put the proposal to his daughter . |
| 21 | They did not ask for time to think it over ; there was only one possible answer to such a proposition . |
| 22 | The Earl of Warwick , one of the judges , protested and asked for time to produce charters and other evidence so that ‘ we might still enjoy with quietness the possessions of our ancestors which had bin oute of the Forrest for three hundred and thirty yeares ’ . |
| 23 | Latimer pleaded for time to prepare a defence to the charges against him , but William of Wykeham insisted that he should answer them immediately . |
| 24 | However , after a second round of US-PLO talks in Tunis on March 22 , 1989 , the PLO leadership expressed fears that the USA lacked a specific programme for resolving the Palestinian issue , and was playing for time to secure a halt to the intifada ( " uprising " ) . |
| 25 | This practically ruined him but rather than take the easy way out and declare himself bankrupt , he called a meeting of his creditors and asked for time to pay . |
| 26 | Sometimes there are combinations and variations on the above , such as requests for part payments or for time to pay . |
| 27 | The crisis-hit jewellery firm were fined £1,000 for false labelling — and asked for time to pay . |
| 28 | She pushed away the papers and rubbed at her eyes , she would have to visit the creditors , pay them a little of their money and then beg them for time to pay the rest . |
| 29 | She would just have to ask the landlord for time to pay . |
| 30 | APPLICATION FOR TIME TO PAY DIRECTION UNDER THE DEBTORS ( SCOTLAND ) ACT 1987 |