Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much as I regard them as a social nuisance on a par with the Orange Walk and invented by the devil to prevent churchgoers getting to church on time , I can not claim that marathons have ( yet ) been proved to kill enough people to justify banning them . |
| 2 | ‘ This means I miss my connection and then it creates a scatter at Middlesbrough as they try to fit me on to a train to get to Hartlepool in time . |
| 3 | In Unix , it has succeeded in creating the impression that it has far more of the management , security and support capabilities in place than any of its competitors , and while this may not be entirely valid , time and again in the computer industry , winning the perception is nine tenths of the battle : in the 1970s , it was universally acknowledged among the cognoscenti that Burroughs Corp had by far the best mainframe architecture and operating software , but that did nothing to prevent the vast majority of its users migrating to IBM over time . |
| 4 | An order of report interpretation was considered an insufficient explanation by Bryden ( 1967 ) , who continued to find a right ear advantage even when analysing only responses given from the ear reported first , but such an explanation continues to surface from time to time ( e.g. Friedes , 1977 ) . |
| 5 | Figure 4.1 Employment status of older male workers following redundancy according to age at time of redundancy |