Example sentences of "of [v-ing] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | That anyone could dream up the notion of quantifying time spent on prayers was indicative of the ‘ scientific ’ attitude of the central authorities , to whose actions in 1922 we now turn briefly before considering the middle level of the local party men in Smolensk . |
| 2 | Increased confidence can also be the result of using time when unemployed to acquire new skills . |
| 3 | Even a twenty minute walk across the park , and a sandwich in the fresh air , is an effective way of using time productively . |
| 4 | As recession forces companies to cut costs , fundraisers are emphasising the equal value to charities of sparing time and expertise . |
| 5 | Such a history can not be represented by the movement of a linear progression of unfolding time . |
| 6 | 3 Five minutes before the end of cooking time , mix the cornflour with a little water to a smooth paste and add to the stew to thicken . |
| 7 | Warm weather , a shortage of cooking time or simply inclination sometimes rule out a hot lunch at home . |
| 8 | The person who gets on with the job instead of wasting time in chatter may show up the less zealous and cause the chatterers to feel vaguely guilty , which of course they wo n't like . |
| 9 | Instead of wasting time hawking his book around the publishing houses , he simply printed up the first three chapters , complete with his own photos and illustrations , and took them out on the streets . |
| 10 | Having done this coolly and rationally there is less chance of wasting time between each job on deciding which to do next . |
| 11 | Comments like , I suggest instead of wasting time on leads , I suggest you try knocking on doors . |
| 12 | She took advantage with both elbows of the luxury of padded arms , and felt soothed by the warm , impersonal darkness , the bovine torpor of those around her , and her own pleased consciousness of wasting time and money when she should have been studying . |
| 13 | We are in thrall to the uniquely Western illusion of cheating time by investing the temporal with immortality . |
| 14 | By triggering the unit manually , rotary control VR2 could be calibrated and a scale of operating time in seconds marked out on the front panel . |
| 15 | Close co-operation with the United States was seen as a means of saving time and money with little regard to the risks of losing some national independence . |
| 16 | The operative adapts to the idea of saving time and bonus calculations are greatly simplified . |
| 17 | In its medium of exchange role , money provides wealth-holders with a convenience yield in the sense of saving time and effort in undertaking transactions . |
| 18 | You can recharge it overnight , and then travel , secure in the knowledge that you have 40 minutes of brushing time available . |
| 19 | We should by now be familiar with the general formula for decomposing data : Data = Fit + Residual The process of smoothing time series also produces such a decomposition of the data except that we mainly use the alternative , more suggestive form of words . |
| 20 | They are just ways of filling time whilst the realities of power assert themselves . |
| 21 | Also useful in the studio should be the onboard sampler , but with only 1.30 seconds of sampling time available it 's obviously limited in what it can do . |
| 22 | The late Frank Howes showed an understanding of the problems racing a choreographer when he wrote : ‘ Every dance has its own rhythm , just as every dancer has an inborn sense of measuring time because each movement must be felt to flow through the whole body as well as the space in which it moves . |
| 23 | If they do they have forgotten that , like them , every member of their audience ‘ has an inborn sense of measuring time ... |
| 24 | To provide a means of measuring time at night the Egyptians also invented the water-clock , or ‘ clepsydra ’ as the Greeks later called it . |
| 25 | The remaining three thousand million years or so have been taken up by the slow process of biological evolution , which has led from the simplest organisms to beings who are capable of measuring time back to the big bang . |
| 26 | ‘ I still try to remember the old way of measuring time . ’ |
| 27 | A GOOD WAY OF QUILLING TIME |
| 28 | Respondents were asked 12 questions , many in several parts , about the service including the length of waiting time , the look and layout of buildings and details about memorial facilities . |
| 29 | Compared with £1.5 billion for FGD to achieve a significant cut in Britain 's sulphur emissions , it was a cheap way of buying time : a year 's grace for each £1 million , about an hour 's expenditure for the CEGB . |
| 30 | But this policy of buying time should not be at the expense of those young people who are currently losing out at school . |