Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [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 | If you use windows it is worth putting applications that you might need to use at the same time on different drives . |
| 4 | I am saying that , as an organisation , it can not cope with the work it has to do at the present time . |
| 5 | ( There is presumably no reason IBM ca n't , like the services , make new offers to those it particularly wants to keep after the first time . ) |
| 6 | He tried to relax for the first time . |
| 7 | The idea is to order everything you want to eat at the same time , then work your way through the tower of baskets . |
| 8 | They lasted all too shortly — maybe a fortnight or so — before they needed to be recharged , and they always seemed to fade at a crucial time , in the middle of your favourite programme . |
| 9 | She was much happier person because this this she 'd threatened to do for a long time . |
| 10 | The phone seemed to ring for a long time . |
| 11 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 12 | And somehow all her own reservations and objections seemed to evaporate at the same time . |
| 13 | I 'm going to write about the first time I met G.P. |
| 14 | This achieves much more in the long run than attempting to concentrate for a long time until fatigue sets in . |
| 15 | A woman who has recovered from a stroke or head injury may decide she would like to work for the first time , as part of the challenge of overcoming her illness . |
| 16 | We would only need to witness a marked increase in trade and there will certainly be an increase in demand why do you think trade has increased ? and trade is n't a necessary condition it 's just that trade has tended to grow at the same time as erm as demand is growing . |
| 17 | I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work . |
| 18 | Is there anybody else please who 's going to live for a long time ? |
| 19 | The advantage to the bank is that it has the use of a deposit for a fixed period , but , because of the flexibility given to the lender , at a slightly lower price than it would have had to pay for a normal time deposit . |
| 20 | Jordanova suggests that the search to define femininity by recourse to anatomy was a search for aesthetic and moral ideals at the same time ; she says of these models , ‘ The figures of recumbent women seem to convey for the first time the sexual potential of medical anatomy . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We 've been waiting to move for a long time , and we need the money to build the new house . ’ |
| 22 | And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney . |
| 23 | Timed to appear at the same time as the major Ramsay exhibition in Edinburgh and London , and well in advance of the same author 's catalogue raisonné , this must be one of the year 's most persuasive monographs . |
| 24 | To avoid inconvenience it may be scheduled to run at a specific time when LIFESPAN itself is not required . |
| 25 | [ he ] … began to understand for the first time just how much there was in this business of being a ship 's officer . |
| 26 | Once the presence of a carcass has been directly or indirectly detected , they glide down to it rapidly , and large numbers of vultures are thus enabled to assemble in a short time . |
| 27 | The champagne reception — at which Kylie began to demonstrate for the first time a new found confidence with both press and public — also gave them the perfect opportunity to milk their golden child 's latest achievement , three UK gold discs for ‘ Kylie ’ the LP , and the singles ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ and ‘ Got To Be Certain ’ . |
| 28 | Harry 's expression began to relax for the first time in Nicholas 's company . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He arranged to return at the same time the next day to set about identifying the traitor in Tuwaithah . |