Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should do this time if your if Is this right ? |
| 2 | This should give enough time to devise a workable document . |
| 3 | Athletics is the most successful sport in Britain and we should spend more time talking about that . ’ |
| 4 | Instead of attacking the Prison Officers Association , the Government should spend more time ensuring that the money and resources are available that will enable the prison service to work ; otherwise , the result will be the wanton destruction that occurred atStrangeways . |
| 5 | We should spend more time trying to bring whatever expertise we may have to bear on the subject in question . |
| 6 | Perhaps they should spend more time concentrating on protecting interests of workers than promoting constitutional debate within the Party . |
| 7 | Both the Royal College and childbirth groups agree that consultant obstetricians should spend more time in the labour ward helping junior staff . |
| 8 | ‘ You should spend less time contemplating your navel and more time studying human nature , sonny . |
| 9 | It is an old piece of advice that if you want to work in an area ( insurance , real estate or food ) you should spend some time working in that area . |
| 10 | If possible we must spend that time at Coate [ where Edward then was ] , and now I long to go to Horsmonden , for every place where you have lived and been happy , is to me dearer than any others . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've told her she must spend less time in the prop room . ’ . |
| 12 | He should have enough time to finish his drink and be away before his fellow-officers started to drift in . |
| 13 | And anyone who came calling at that time today must have more time than sense , because today was Tuesday . |
| 14 | The explicit extension of the abstract convention then includes the proposition that both sides must be heard , but it does not include either the proposition that they must have equal time or the contrary proposition that the party with the more difficult case must have more time . |
| 15 | The remaining material in Volume 1 — the so-called ‘ additional analyses ’ — which included detailed information about departmental subprogrammes and the English , Scottish and Welsh components should take more time to produce and be made available in alternative ways , as technical releases , in the spring . |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman should take more time to encourage schools in Bradford to learn the lessons from the city technology college to improve the quality of technology education in Bradford . |
| 17 | ‘ He looked at me with one of those amiable stares of his , said I was overworked and I should take some time off . |
| 18 | ‘ We must fix another time when all this is over . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Some of the others missed shore time in Tenerife on their last trip , so it seems only fair they should go this time . |
| 20 | Finally , we should mention that time deixis is relevant to various other deictic elements in a language . |
| 21 | They really must realise that time and time again being equivocal on defence when you 're on the left of centre means that voters somehow do n't vote for you , and I think they 've had to learn this lesson yet again and I only hope that by the er December elections in West Germany the Social Democratic Party who I 've got a great deal of er sympathy for on most social issues will be firm and clear about a united Germany not being neutral and within NATO . |
| 22 | That should save some time . |
| 23 | Object-oriented approaches should reduce this time dramatically , POSC says . |
| 24 | Food must escape this time , even at a lower rate , given the inflationary implications of levying a tax — not to mention the political sensitivities involved . |
| 25 | I think we must allow more time during the lunchbreak for notices — they are too rushed towards the end ! |
| 26 | Some felt that they needed to compensate their children for the ‘ loss ’ of the other parent , and so should devote more time to them . |
| 27 | Primary schools ‘ must devote more time to science ’ |
| 28 | Instead , he must devote more time to drafting letters , making records , and writing reports in the office . |
| 29 | We 'll knock this time . ’ |
| 30 | Nancy appreciates that others might need more time than she takes , to absorb and follow her instructions . |