Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [adv] [verb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The acquirer may not have the time or be willing to make the inspections and will not want to accept the risk that some information may have been given to one of its employees or advisers who was unable at the time to appreciate its significance in relation to the transaction , or indeed may have been forgotten . |
| 2 | In a rapidly changing world , preoccupied by Eastern Europe , the American Administration may not have the time or patience to devote to Israelis and Palestinians . |
| 3 | In a rapidly changing world , preoccupied by Eastern Europe , the American Administration may not have the time or patience to devote to Israelis and Palestinians . |
| 4 | As Bloch has commented , ‘ To us accustomed to live with our eyes constantly turning to the clock , how remote from our civilization seems this society in which a court of law could not ascertain the time of day without discussion and inquiry ! ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Building an ambulance station would only improve the time the ambulance took to reach the emergency . |
| 7 | Thus a pattern mask will greatly reduce the time available for a letter detector to generate and transmit a code to the lexical output systems , but will not affect the time available to a word detector . |
| 8 | One person can scarcely have the time or the expertise needed to find out what has been published and link this to readers ' needs throughout his authority , especially when book provision is only one of his many responsibilities . |
| 9 | the authority will perhaps have the time to consider overall policy objectives and the context in which all the schools and colleges operate . |
| 10 | No man is an island ; no smallholder can possibly find the time or produce all the skills needed for complete self-sufficiency . |
| 11 | Even if the security is ample , the bank will not want the time , trouble and loss of goodwill involved in attempting to repossess its loan . |
| 12 | The school could not afford the time or expense of putting bar-codes on all stock in both libraries . |
| 13 | Once an offline run has completed , the offline system will automatically update the time of the next offline run by adding the interval to the current start time . |