Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | To paddle around Laguna Chica enjoying the idle drift of time , the depth of natural silence ; to go and rest my head for a last time between the fifteen-foot-high buttresses of Big Tree … |
| 2 | Completing the two-year project to time and budget called on the skills of a first-class management team This included project manager Richard Smyth ; project coordinator , Peter Green ; senior agents Robert Vickers , Paul Cadman and Neil Sheddon and agent Barry Kingscote . |
| 3 | Instead of adopting the cyclical idea of time , the Jews are said to have believed in a linear concept , based in their case on a teleological idea of history as the gradual revelation of God 's purpose . |
| 4 | Another exceptional service available to Harvey Nichols customers is Personal Shopping offering individual consultation and advice on every aspect of your image and wardrobe , with total respect for your own budget , so saving a great deal of time and indecision . |
| 5 | ‘ Always ’ was an odd choice of word , denoting a great length of time . |
| 6 | In the universities , where in the sixties rioting students and the educated tele-celebrities of the ‘ chattering classes ’ had commanded public attention , there were now dormant , apolitical students anxious only for their future employment , and embittered lecturers suffering a crisis of morale and lamenting the bureaucratic invasion of time traditionally left for teaching and research . |
| 7 | For He did swim across the river : This involves the virtual person of the infinitive occupying the same position(s) in time as the actual person which specifies its rank in the auxiliary , and so to is not necessary . |
| 8 | For He could swim across the river : This also involves the intra-infinitival virtual person occupying the same position in time as the actual person which specifies its rank contained in the auxiliary , but here the virtual person is conceived as the support of a potentiality and not of an actualization . |
| 9 | Imagine that you have been studying for 20 years for a qualification that will change your life , or waiting the same length of time to hear about a job you have applied for , the only job you have ever really wanted . |
| 10 | One of the most significant features characterizing the Hebrew experience of time was the ‘ contemporaneity of past and future ’ . |
| 11 | An occasional court appearance can become enshrined as mere ritual ceremony totally encapsulating a particular moment of time which can be easily forgotten . |
| 12 | This possibility of resumption , of the fulfilment of the promise of endless flow temporarily threatened by interruption , seems to me to operate in a quite different way than the cinematic cut , occupying a different structure of time , a different relation to fantasy , and motivated less by desire , loss and lack . |
| 13 | Allowing a realistic amount of time is crucial if we are serious about asking people who are disabled to make informed decisions and choices . |
| 14 | A few of these difficult public-interest cases go , not to the disciplinary committee , but to the Joint Disciplinary Scheme : not more than about one or two a year , but each of them demanding a great investment of time and money . |
| 15 | And while media attention is useful in arousing the public conscience from time to time , there is little follow-up . |
| 16 | Lacking the long-established authority of Time Out or the political commitment of City Limits , Event fell awkwardly between both stools . |
| 17 | Here again the list of names is selective , probably abbreviating the total length of time involved . |
| 18 | In relation to the timetable of events included in the agreement , time will not be of the essence but ( in accordance with the general law ) may be made so through the service of notice providing a reasonable extension of time . |
| 19 | As in Babylonia , this calendar was adapted to the sun by intercalating a thirteenth month from time to time , but this was left to local officials in the different cities to decide , and they did this individually and arbitrarily . |
| 20 | During the 1960s , under the leadership of Terence O'Neill , the Unionist Parliamentary Party found itself devoting an increasing amount of time to questions of economic and social reform . |
| 21 | You seem to me to be wasting an awful lot of time . ’ |
| 22 | I 've discovered that that is the only way , with one or two exceptions that might occur , the only way to stop yourself wasting an awful lot of time . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're spending a good deal of time in New York now , Mark . |
| 24 | He carried out this aspect of his work assiduously , spending a great deal of time obtaining detailed accounts of Soviet work of significant practical use to British academics in disciplines ranging from ergonomics to biotechnology . |
| 25 | They have been reported as spending a great deal of time analysing conversations that they have held with the various Ketamine entities . |
| 26 | Spending a great deal of time trying to achieve these goals will be unproductive and frustrating . |
| 27 | While not stated overtly by most interviewees , although some were asked specifically about this , there was a tendency to use the word ‘ friend ’ to signify a pre-heroin relationship , whereas phrases such as ‘ this guy I know ’ and ‘ a bloke who lives around the corner ’ were used to describe a post-heroin use relationship even though the user might be spending a great deal of time with that person on a daily basis . |
| 28 | As well as spending a great deal of time servicing existing customers we are constantly looking for new opportunities in developing markets around the world . |
| 29 | ‘ We seem to be spending a great deal of time apologising to one another these days . |
| 30 | While these items closely reflect developmental research on the child 's mastery of two-word utterances , it seems unlikely that even an experienced therapist or teacher would be able to complete the checklist without spending a considerable amount of time with each individual child being assessed . |