Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philosophically and technically town planning demonstrated in Britain , as elsewhere , an operational capacity to conceive and prepare a metropolitan plan , robust enough to stand the test of time . |
| 2 | In the popular tongue it was used only to indicate a point in time . |
| 3 | The humour is clever — daft but not really slap-stick — and the writers obviously put a lot of time into making sure it works . |
| 4 | At present , there is no means by which a judge can sufficiently control the length of time taken by a defendant , particularly — this was not the case with the County NatWest and Blue Arrow trial — one who is defending himself . |
| 5 | So those are all if you like the background , the things that do change but the fundamentals that stay the same are the design and the delivery and although we 'll look a little bit although we 've er I have to say with the numbers we 've got here today it will only be a little bit about things like question and visual aids and because of the time factor if you think about it if we 've twelve people to make four presentations or we 've eight people to make four presentations time is a little bit different and with with twelve we do n't perhaps have the luxury of time that we would with eight people which is what the course was originally designed for . |
| 6 | The children had obviously spent a lot of time on them . ’ |
| 7 | You now have several options , so take a bit of time to think through what you really want to do — and get the best advice you can . |
| 8 | Perhaps in societies where women in the extended family or tribe naturally spend a lot of time together , there is a healthier , more relaxed attitude to life . |
| 9 | Similarly , the idea of time is not extracted from any observation of actual coexistence and succession ; on the contrary , any significant references to coexistence and succession already presuppose an idea of time . |
| 10 | a lot of the lab work done here anyway , everyone knows what the results should be , it just seems a waste of time because you know the equipment 's not good enough to get the results you should be getting , so you spend most of your time writing why your results have n't come out . |
| 11 | You know , you do n't need to spend ages doing it , but , but just take a bit of time to do it and |
| 12 | ‘ Just waste a lot of time . |
| 13 | Whilst fucking have a look from time to time to make sure it 's still in one piece . |
| 14 | Well of course the biggest social thing in Ireland is the pub and it 's not I mean the Irish have a a name for being very heavy drinkers but in general they 're not heavy drinkers they just spend a lot of time in pubs . |
| 15 | ‘ I would put Schmeichel in that group and at 27 he still has a lot of time to improve . ’ |
| 16 | As science had gradually eroded the freedom of time , so it had eroded the freedom of belief . |
| 17 | He always paid the rent on time , but he was late for December . |
| 18 | In the winter , the Government were driven to the desperation of calling upon alchemy — ’ what Disraeli once called the alchemy of time . ’ |
| 19 | Do you always leave the office on time ? |
| 20 | These things always take a bit of time — angles , speed of door closing , creak and so on — but this seemed an eternity . |
| 21 | Most of my friends will buy this album and we usually waste a lot of time discussing the merits of whatever record we have recently bought , so we may well have a few arguments on whether to eat meat or not . |
| 22 | ‘ We always spend a lot of time with female converts , Wilson , ’ he said , giving h a broad wink . |
| 23 | The quantity of detail and the resultant record size will also affect the amount of time involved in the creation of a single record . |
| 24 | To locate faint sounds we automatically maximise the difference in time of arrival and loudness of the sound by turning our head until one ear is facing the source of the sound . |
| 25 | Although I am always prepared to enter discussions with the hon. Gentleman about hypothetical matters , one must also balance the amount of time and expense that it would take to comment on something that is not a reality . |
| 26 | In other words , the universe would have to behave the same if one replaced particles by antiparticles , took the mirror image , and also reversed the direction of time . |
| 27 | The townspeople also spent a lot of time scribbling on walls — love letters , advertisements , sexual boasts and political slogans ( ’ Vote for Lucius , he is an honest man ’ ) — while a mortgage on wax was also discovered under the ash . |
| 28 | The dinosaurs probably lost the race against time , having already lost bipedality and vestigial hands at the time when mammalian-type warm-bloodedness would almost certainly have guaranteed their survival into perpetuity . |
| 29 | Bobby and Ian both sacrifice a lot of time to Lisburn 's teenage golfers and it 's beginning to show . |
| 30 | The Waltham Forest CHC not only was in disagreement with Mezey but also questioned the length of time it had taken the RHA to make time for a discussion of the report ( one year ) . |