Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I asked Alison what qualities you need to be a marketing controller she said , ‘ you need to be able to establish immediate empathy with the people you are talking to as you may only have a short time to get the feedback you need . |
| 2 | For the other to remain other it must not derive its meaning from History but must instead have a separate time which differs from historical time . |
| 3 | As some debates may not last the full time allotted to them , it is the responsibility of hon. Members to keep in touch with developments if they are not to miss their turn . |
| 4 | For safety 's sake , some events may not use an optimum time — so check this with the organisers . |
| 5 | You 'll not have an easy time with her , Marilla . ’ |
| 6 | It wo n't buy the rest of your life , but it 'll certainly fund a good time . |
| 7 | She could only stay a short time , but long enough to hear John thank her for the gift of her daughter . |
| 8 | This was a situation which could only last a short time before complete economic and social collapse ensued . |
| 9 | She could not recall a specific time when it had been moved . |
| 10 | ‘ All this type of modern music that we play , if you think back to when it all started , whether it 's thrash , rap , disco , rock'n'roll , it all started with black people in slavery and poverty in the southern States , and about the only thing they could ever have a good time with was sex . |
| 11 | ‘ Of course with your looks you 'd probably have a marvellous time . |
| 12 | They 'd probably spend the entire time at one another 's throats ! |
| 13 | ‘ If DJs gave either side enough spins and all curry eaters bought it , I believe I could really hit the big time , ’ said Peter , who lives in Bargoed , Mid-Glamorgan . |
| 14 | The innovation of Private Eye ensured that deference , if not quite dead , would henceforth have a hard time . |
| 15 | We shall further assume a sinusoidal time variation so that |
| 16 | This suggests that early surgery would substantially reduce the overall time with fluid . |
| 17 | ‘ We ca n't fix a definite time of death until after the post mortem , but we 're working on the assumption that it was shortly after the time agreed for the rendezvous — midnight . |
| 18 | Erm when we were telephoned at home and called out to report to Police Station erm I ca n't remember the exact time that we got to Police Station and it would have been er somewhere in the region of four o'clock in the morning . |
| 19 | Tony , 47 , who once admitted to drinking up to twelve pints a night , just ca n't resist a good time . |
| 20 | Ca n't have a jolly time without your mates . |
| 21 | A time should be prescribed for exercise of any option , though that could be extended by subsequent agreement and the court would readily imply a reasonable time if none were in fact specified . |
| 22 | In case the reader should think that this small book is about to offer the solution to this problem , let it be stated immediately that a complete integration of all these different disciplinary approaches to the investment decision will probably take a considerable time and much research effort by a range of researchers . |
| 23 | A search will therefore take the minimum time shown in Fig. 7.2 . |
| 24 | The paper hypothesises that manufacturers wo n't have an easy time developing 66MHz/64-bit machines with the P5 chip and that P24T is something in the way of a stop-gap measure , speeds up the 486DX2 upgrade path . |
| 25 | We can not pinpoint the exact time that property passes without first classifying the contract . |
| 26 | I can not remember a previous time when we have bought back a former council house . |
| 27 | Not only do books often tend to be rather broad in their approach to a subject , but they can also take a long time to be published after they are written and the information may thus be out of date . |