Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief executive may know what change is needed , but has to wait for the right time to introduce it . |
| 2 | So that the training is not unduly prolonged the deans suggest that the undergraduate course could be shortened to compensate for the extra time spent as a house officer . |
| 3 | The village founded by King Billy has come through the bad times and it has not surrendered . |
| 4 | Creaney , who now forms a new strike partnership with Andy Payton , and has nudged his boyhood idol Charlie Nicholas into reserve football , feels the Cologne tie has come at the right time . |
| 5 | Its psychogenic origin was reaffirmed with the descriptions of Ryle , Sheldon , Berkman , and Venables in the 1930s , a point of view that has predominated to the present time . |
| 6 | I am saying that , as an organisation , it can not cope with the work it has to do at the present time . |
| 7 | But Newton , known in the dressing room as ‘ Isaac ’ , still has to pinch himself to be sure he really has arrived in the big time . |
| 8 | Significant vertical uplift probably began in the Oligocene about 35 Ma ago and has continued to the present time , but at varying rates . |
| 9 | The policy of keeping the membership subscriptions low has survived to the present time , despite the improvement in the economic circumstances of the deaf community as a whole . |
| 10 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
| 11 | News of the victory spread as the clans began to muster at the appointed time at Glenfinnan , which , with the mountains rising all around the tranquil waters of the loch , provided an intensely dramatic setting for the formal beginning of the campaign . |
| 12 | Because several tutors failed to keep to the new time table for applications the Board has decided that they will have to revert to the original dates for the Written Examination entries . |
| 13 | And young Paul Daly , the son of Brian , had a rather one-sided 21-10 win over Martin McHugh of Carrickfergus in the under-25 singles semi-final after McHugh selected to drive at the wrong time , which was right up Daly 's street . |
| 14 | It is further urged upon me that the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact with each other , and the justices being satisfied that there were grounds for believing that both the children were likely to suffer significant harm , which was a specific finding that they made , they were plainly wrong in refusing to make an interim order in that they first of all failed to have regard to the fact that the parents had colluded over the cause of D. 's injuries , and there was evidence to that effect ; secondly , that the mother had lied to social services , Dr. Barnardo 's and the guardian about having had at the relevant times no contact with the father — and that is indeed what the mother has done , she has lied ; and , thirdly , that the father had been in breach of a term of the bail conditions which had been imposed upon him , not only on 23 December 1991 but ever since his release in as much as he had visited and contacted the mother . |
| 15 | Well , this was hardly the scene she 'd have imagined as the perfect time to wear the dress , but now she silently blessed the premonition which had made her pack it along with the predominantly casual clothes she 'd chosen to take to Sheffield . |
| 16 | The cost should average out at about £6 per page , less for longer runs , but you will have to allow for the extra time . |
| 17 | These Councils , and another four formed later , continue to operate at the present time as autonomous bodies with their own presidents officers and delegates . |
| 18 | Elizabeth Titford , the mother , must have needed a bit of Christian faith herself as she grew older and struggled to live through the hard times which were a mark of the 1820s with its long and painful inflation . |
| 19 | Such links do exist at the present time , but they are the exception rather than the norm . |
| 20 | It 's my proudest achievement to have got into the Irish Times . |
| 21 | There were a number of part-time farmers who indicated they would be happy to take part of their holidays to attend although holidays were normally taken to coincide with the busy time on the farm . |
| 22 | It appeared to have arrived at the right time . |
| 23 | ‘ Money-back ’ guarantee if we fail to deliver by the agreed time . |
| 24 | Suddenly , she knew that her aunt 's news had come at the perfect time . |
| 25 | Conchis was no more than the chance agent , the event that had come at the right time ; just as in the old days I might , after a celibate term at Oxford , have met a girl and begun an affaire with her , I had begun something exciting with him . |
| 26 | Aunt Fosters had died at the right time . |
| 27 | If the verderers ( or their heirs , if the verderers had died in the mean time ) failed to present their rolls to the judges on the first day of the Forest Eyre , or if their rolls were deficient in any material particular , they were liable to amercement . |
| 28 | Many offenders had died in the mean time , and the sheriff failed to produce others , so that the sessions were adjourned time and time again during the next few years . |
| 29 | ‘ They made me feel like … some species that had got into the wrong time slot . |
| 30 | I sat in the armchair and was entertained by the funniest and most unorthodox brand of humour I had experienced in the short time in which I had graced the Earth with my presence . |