Example sentences of "the time [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now is not the time to arrive at the friary . |
| 2 | Again she was a busy young mother who did not really find the time to mourn for the loss of her unborn children . |
| 3 | This is not the time to talk of the end of history — more a time for some good history lessons . |
| 4 | Alex Brown thanked Mr Lang for taking the time to talk to the milk producers present but said : ‘ We know the final decision rests on your shoulders because it will be for the Secretary of State for Scotland to decide on whether proposals for vertically integrated milk co-operatives distort competition after the milk boards are deregulated . ’ |
| 5 | Taking the time to talk about the past , focusing on the experience of the counsellee in all its detail and complexity , can help to establish the counselling relationship . |
| 6 | Mrs M no longer had the time to devote to the girl who sought schooling for herself . |
| 7 | As you should change the soil in the wormery every few weeks , this is the time to search through the soil for egg capsules . |
| 8 | There would probably have been a cover-up in any army , if only to find the time to deal with the malefactors by the army 's own rules . |
| 9 | One person must remain at the nets all the time to deal with the rabbits as they become entangled . |
| 10 | Now that many good leasehold titles are quite a few years old , however , this might well be the time to apply to the Registry to convert a good leasehold to an absolute title . |
| 11 | This process is not going to stop , so the time to plunge into the Baronnies is surely now before they are reclaimed for the retirement bungalow . |
| 12 | BBS seriously considered firing Hopper ; the pressure of moving a production team of twenty-three people from state to state , writing the script on the run and persuading innocent citizens of the United States of America who just happened to be passing at the time to appear in the movie , was a heavy burden for all . |
| 13 | As the traders often can not spare the time to come to the staff restaurant , they can place their breakfast and lunch orders in advance and CCG staff serve them at their desks . |
| 14 | The time to consider whether one wishes to opt out and whether one was opposed to a certain system is always when a decision has been made , but I 'd have thought it would have been far in the interests of the people of Banbury and the children and parents of Banbury if they 'd taken full advantage of the discussion on the tertiary college and had made their opinions known , and in the light of the results coming out and say a satisfactory decision had arisen that was frankly the time to get into the business of opting out . |
| 15 | Especially because of all the evidence that different species , and different processes within a single organism , use variants of similar molecular mechanisms to carry out specified tasks , those with the good fortune to have the time to think about the data accumulating in the literature would probably reap a rich harvest of understanding . |
| 16 | Filmer was still beside her : the passengers tended all the time to linger at the tables , talking , after the meals had been cleared , rather than return to the solitude of their bedrooms . |