Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [adv] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rejoinder must be : although we may generally have neither the time nor the inclination to look at literary language under the microscope in this way , the fact that it can be done is important , and the doing of it can not fail to sharpen observation , by making us aware of how larger effects are built up from smaller ones . |
| 2 | Besides , he was sure we 'd quickly make up the time once we got out to sea . |
| 3 | Maggie glanced at her alarm clock , but could n't make out the time . |
| 4 | ‘ Certain highly technical factors , intelligible only to the expert and with which I will not take up the time of this inquest , have led me to conclude that Subject A had been dead for more than nine years and less than twelve . |
| 5 | I have details here of scores of cases , but as I can not take up the time of the House in referring to all of them , I will pick one or two examples . |
| 6 | If they can not see where the time has been recorded the time will not normally be allowed . |