Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes effort on the part of the parent but can sometimes help them see that their child is eating more than they thought or eating at the wrong times of day . |
| 2 | It will also raise a few problems for sportsmen and sportswomen who are training or competing in a new time zone to which they have not yet adjusted . |
| 3 | Too often people throw up ideas — ‘ Let's have so-and-so as a speaker on Tuesday and a dance on the Wednesday and a banquet on Thursday ’ — without ever stopping to think how any of these will help reach goals or fit into the overall time . |
| 4 | ‘ Afterwards — she would not look at me or speak for a long time . |
| 5 | Bank current account loan or ordinary loan Cash loan usually for specific purpose ( like buying expensive durables or cars ) for people with bank accounts , usually without security ( unless it 's a large sum or borrowed for a long time ) ; usually fixed , regular payments over two or three ( occasionally up to seven ) years ; interest on what is owed fluctuates in line with but rather higher than bank base rate . |
| 6 | It was true that I had n't been to see Jeeta or Anwar for a long time , what with the moving and my depression and everything , and wanting to start a new life in London and know the city . |
| 7 | The hard-top even uses the same mechanisms and can be attached or removed in a similar time . |
| 8 | If you are catching 6-pounders and want to catch 8lb bream , then move to another swim , or fish that swim at a different time . |
| 9 | But to our disgust , and as Nigel mentioned , also that we have seen a demise of factory inspectors , and this is borne out by the fact that figures at the present time show that an average workplace can be expected to be visited once in eleven years . |
| 10 | In 1940 he had been quite prepared , if need be , to serve in a dangerous capacity in the ranks because he felt he could be more useful in such a rôle at that critical moment in the country 's affairs , rather than go through the extra time and training there and then for a commission . |
| 11 | There 's also the soft side , the Bill Morrison who is reduced to tears by Harry Secombe — ‘ I 'd love to be as good as him ’ and the Bill Morrison who confesses in an unguarded moment that as an epitaph he 'd like the description that appeared in a recent Times leader about him : ‘ a man they can trust ’ . |
| 12 | Much worse to begin too soon and reach the end too quickly , typed Goldberg , squinting at the manuscript before him , than to begin at the right time and reach the end too quickly . |
| 13 | Much worse to begin too soon and feel one has begun too soon than to begin at the right time and discover one has nothing to begin . |
| 14 | The first is that with another ten years of John Paul 's rule , the silencing of awkward bishops and theologians , the appointment to the episcopate of a most carefully selected team of neo-conservatives , a rather traditionalist form of Catholicism will , in fact , harden and remain for a long time effectively unchangeable . |
| 15 | But it does need to be borne in mind that although this form of sudden death can create such instantaneous reactions there are also people who hide and keep quiet and suffer for a long time before finding the opportunity to talk to someone about their feelings or until another trigger sets them grieving . |
| 16 | Nathaniel Sherman stumbled slightly at the entrance of his hut , and his wife heard him cursing and fumbling for a long time with the flap fastenings . |
| 17 | Recipes in magazines and books ( and cooking times on many pre-packed foods ) are generally based on 600 to 700 W. If you buy a more powerful oven , you 'll need to reduce the cooking time by about 25 per cent , or lower the power level to the equivalent of 600 to 700 W and cook for the normal time . |
| 18 | Usually worn by those smug bastards who fidget relentlessly on planes and insist on getting up and walking round the whole time , demonstratively taking photos out of windows and asking for guided tours of the cockpit . |
| 19 | Like the plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs , they were successful and varied for a long time , but all three groups failed to survive the Cretaceous . |
| 20 | Its format is usually standard , though much of the information collected and reported at a particular time may not be relevant to current development issues . |
| 21 | Any necessary elections for tax purposes must be identified and made at the optimum times . |
| 22 | Elsag Bailey SpA has acquired Ferranti International Controls Inc of Houston , and according to the Financial Times , Ferranti International Plc is in process of getting out of the US , where it does some $100m a year , some 25% of the total , and employs about 1,000 people : it is winding up a Pennsylvania company , Ferranti International Simulation & Training and will sell the rest . |
| 23 | Political discussions had centred on the Gulf crisis and on the recent Arab deaths in Jerusalem [ see p. 37759 ] ; all were able to condemn the latter , and according to the Financial Times of Oct. 11 " the Arab side appeared encouraged by what they [ saw ] as French recent acceptance of some linkage between the Gulf and the Arab-Israeli problem " . |
| 24 | The country had the highest sulphur dioxide emission per head of population in Europe [ see p. 36792 ] and according to the Financial Times of Feb. 21 , 1990 , one power station burning brown coal in Cottbus produced more pollution annually than Norway and Denmark together . |
| 25 | It is useful , when several people have to get together to collaborate on an activity , to make one of them responsible for seeing that this is done and done at the right time . |
| 26 | But much of Operation Gemini is about surveilance , observing known criminals and waiting for the right time to move in and make arrests , of which there have been more than a hundred and twenty since the operation started four weeks ago . |
| 27 | They walked through the gardens together and talked for a long time . |
| 28 | Oliver was deeply grateful for this offer of shelter and talked for a long time with his new friend . |
| 29 | Kee told her about his life and talked for a long time about the old Haiti and the people he remembered . |
| 30 | She closed her eyes again , tossed and turned for a long time , then finally managed to get a couple of hours of disturbed sleep . |