Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | To paddle around Laguna Chica enjoying the idle drift of time , the depth of natural silence ; to go and rest my head for a last time between the fifteen-foot-high buttresses of Big Tree … |
| 2 | Turning to the principal carer 's involvement with the dementia sufferer , it was easy to see the tremendous amount of time and energy expended by most of them . |
| 3 | To this extent , Soviet foreign traders , who came late to the Latin American markets , may be disadvantaged in their competition with capitalist suppliers either because their own authorities prevent them from participating in the bidding for a project or because they can not mobilise the Soviet bureaucracy in time to meet deadlines . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd just make the odd suggestion from time to time , ’ says Freddie . |
| 5 | Thus do evokes the taking place in time — in the stretch of time in the past or non-past required to realize it — of the event denoted by the infinitive . |
| 6 | Completing the two-year project to time and budget called on the skills of a first-class management team This included project manager Richard Smyth ; project coordinator , Peter Green ; senior agents Robert Vickers , Paul Cadman and Neil Sheddon and agent Barry Kingscote . |
| 7 | Changes in the question wording used also make the meaningful interpretation of time series health data problematic . |
| 8 | For a programme in which you can devote six hours a day to language learning , Brewster and Brewster suggest the following amounts of time on each phrase : In your daily programme you may experience two reactions — boredom or frustration . |
| 9 | The animal with the baton smacked the sleeping animal in time to Midwinter 's staccato pronouncements. from the next room 1 heard a riff of a clarinet and toot of a trombone . |
| 10 | Instead of adopting the cyclical idea of time , the Jews are said to have believed in a linear concept , based in their case on a teleological idea of history as the gradual revelation of God 's purpose . |
| 11 | I shall therefore discuss the psychological arrow of time for computers . |
| 12 | Man 's discovery that he himself , like other living creatures , is born and dies must have led him intuitively to try to circumvent the relentless flux of time by seeking to perpetuate his own existence indefinitely . |
| 13 | For several seconds , his brain refused to function , resisting all his efforts to impose the reassuring certainties of time and place . |
| 14 | No moving : Let time close over us like water … over this world , let the even surface of time close once again … |
| 15 | One of the most fascinating aspects of Spycatcher is how Wright describes the enormous amount of time wasted on petty departmental quarrels and jealousies with each person guarding his little private empire . |
| 16 | But to celebrate the unacknowledged commitment of time , talent and energy that some do make , Esquire and Principles Menswear have named these four men , ‘ Men of Principles ’ . |
| 17 | Such companies are highly competitive and welcome the colossal saving of time and money new methods represent . |
| 18 | Form 86 or a quite informal letter is then sufficient — such as : We hereby consent to the property known as [ shown edged red on the accompanying plan ] being part of the land comprised in the above title being transferred free from the [ Intended ] Notice of Deposit registered on the But some banks ( which favour this type of security in appropriate cases ) have their own favoured form of withdrawal ; acting for a seller you 'll satisfy yourself on this point and obtain the necessary withdrawal in time to hand over on completion . |
| 19 | So , he 's only had the same length of time doing this as you have so , by the end of the afternoon you ought to be in the position to print out a really neat final version of of of the letter . |
| 20 | It may even be morally permissible to kill the child ; but the criminal law neither now nor in the future will countenance this , though it may look the other way from time to time . |
| 21 | Table 4.2 shows the total amount of time spent by the clients in institutional care ( whether short- or long-term ) in the first six months , and in the first 12 months , after referral to the psychogeriatric service . |
| 22 | In the universities , where in the sixties rioting students and the educated tele-celebrities of the ‘ chattering classes ’ had commanded public attention , there were now dormant , apolitical students anxious only for their future employment , and embittered lecturers suffering a crisis of morale and lamenting the bureaucratic invasion of time traditionally left for teaching and research . |
| 23 | And yet they 've got the same amount of time |
| 24 | For He did swim across the river : This involves the virtual person of the infinitive occupying the same position(s) in time as the actual person which specifies its rank in the auxiliary , and so to is not necessary . |
| 25 | For He could swim across the river : This also involves the intra-infinitival virtual person occupying the same position in time as the actual person which specifies its rank contained in the auxiliary , but here the virtual person is conceived as the support of a potentiality and not of an actualization . |
| 26 | In the long run , however , the time wasted in nagging exceeds the initial investment in time and effort involved in training children that parents mean what they say . |
| 27 | Imagine that you have been studying for 20 years for a qualification that will change your life , or waiting the same length of time to hear about a job you have applied for , the only job you have ever really wanted . |
| 28 | One of the most significant features characterizing the Hebrew experience of time was the ‘ contemporaneity of past and future ’ . |
| 29 | I opened the old copy of Time magazine I had beside me . |
| 30 | And while media attention is useful in arousing the public conscience from time to time , there is little follow-up . |