Example sentences of "tell [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | SIR — On July 28 , 1980 , Neil Kinnock told The Times : ‘ I want to retire at 50 , I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter , and sing in the choir . ’ |
| 2 | Clem Shaw , the maker of Channel 4 's film for Cutting Edge , told the Times : ‘ We thought we 'd be looking at lots of ramblers trampling over delicate areas , but it turned out to be much more of a social perspective than an environmental one ; more of a political issue than I 'd intended . ’ |
| 3 | Rosing told the Times that the new Sun subsidiary is in the ‘ advanced development ’ stages , and that finished products were more than two years away , although people close to the project reportedly say working models already exist . |
| 4 | Dr James Swire , who had lost a daughter at Lockerbie and was the leading spokesman for the British families , told The Times that he still believed the atrocity had been carried out by the PFLP — GC , acting as mercenaries for the Iranians , although he was anxious to see the two Libyans brought to trial by any means short of force . |
| 5 | Following the rejection of Turkey 's application for membership of the European Communities ( EC ) in December 1989 [ see p. 37133 ] , Ali Bozer , then Minister in Charge of Relations with the EC , told The Times in January 1990 that Turkey would continue to press the European Commission for a specific date for Turkish membership as soon as possible after the introduction of the single market on Dec. 31 , 1992 . |
| 6 | Spaniards have been told the time of sacrifice is over ; now come the years of effort — an effort to make Spain fit to enter European monetary and economic union in 1997 . |
| 7 | Watches that tell the time in 18 different languages , make toast and have so many knobs and dials that the clock face is completely obscured . |
| 8 | Yeah the clock , the clock 's there I always get groups that say where 's the clock cos they ca n't sort of see where it is and I 'm sort of saying it 's the angle tell the time . |
| 9 | It 's an astronomical device based on a twenty-four-hour pattern which tells the time of day , the position of the moon , the constellations of the zodiac . |
| 10 | Ah , well what value is it , a watch tells the time whether it 's three hundred pounds or three , three pounds |
| 11 | Even at first assessment the difficulties faced by these dementia sufferers are apparent : two-thirds could not identify three coins , three out of five could not name three or four parts of a watch , and one half could not tell the time or correctly select a medicine bottle . |
| 12 | Kovacs finishes off by saying , — So what if you ca n't tell the time . |
| 13 | From it I learn that a seven year old has achieved a satisfactory standard if he can tell the time accurately in units of five minutes ! ) . |
| 14 | But her hand was shaking so much that she could not tell the time . |
| 15 | Sure , there are no working clocks in the entire flat , just one lively broken green thing that ticks happily as if it could tell the time , though the second hand only pulses and stays in one place . |
| 16 | So your watch should tell the time accurately . |
| 17 | Just in case you ca n't tell the time . |
| 18 | And just to help you tell the time there are these unidentified flying objects in little nests with numbers on . |
| 19 | And then another part of the story is he made a whole alphabet without telling the Times and they . |
| 20 | Functional rather than ostentatious , for telling the time rather than for telling others who he was . |
| 21 | The clock did a lot more besides telling the time of day . |
| 22 | In a nearly cloudless country such as Egypt observation of the sun was a useful way of telling the time and it is therefore not surprising that the earliest known solar clock has been found there . |
| 23 | As Southern has remarked , this passage , only part of which I have quoted , illustrates the difficulties encountered in those days of telling the time and Walcher 's anxiety for precision in seeking to establish the exact correlation between the phases of the moon and the solar calendar . |
| 24 | After all , you have been telling the time for years , have n't you ? |
| 25 | Finally a simple set of performance tests was sought , to assess whether respondents could actually perform some of the basic activities of daily living ( such as counting money , telling the time , reading medicine bottle instructions ) . |
| 26 | This is a popular theme , as children enjoy telling the time . |
| 27 | Also known as ‘ mass clocks ’ they offered a means of telling the time for church services : an appropriately placed stick cast a shadow on the hour-scale . |
| 28 | Learning how we measure time is something that could link effectively with cross-curricular work on telling the time , learning about the calendar and the seasons . |
| 29 | Why do you need telling every time ? ’ |
| 30 | These star charts were provided to enable the deceased to tell the time of night or the date in the calendar . |