Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heavy demands are placed on schools to find time in the curriculum for a wide range of individually worthwhile activities and difficult decisions have to be made about priorities . |
| 2 | Peer of the prison cell has time on his hands |
| 3 | Candidates from 3 of the Parties found time for Christian Aid also . |
| 4 | Nobody barred as Evelyn Glennie beats time at Craiginches |
| 5 | Adopting a hierarchical standpoint and preferring to speak in terms of ‘ life ’ rather than ‘ motion ’ , Plotinus regarded time as an intermediate between eternity ( or the higher soul that contemplates eternity ) and the motion of the universe which reveals time as the ‘ life ’ ( or creative power ) of ‘ soul ’ . |
| 6 | After an opening sample of Bob Hoskins from The Long Good Friday , ‘ Killing Season ’ sees Gunshot calling time on their fellow UK crews . |
| 7 | Frantic Bradford took to diving in the box looking for penalties , but Quakers held on , and there was even the unaccustomed spectacle of possession football to waste time in the dying minutes with a chorus of ‘ staying up ’ from the travelling fans in the background . |
| 8 | This procedure was introduced in an attempt to save time on the floor of the House and is used for unopposed and non controversial legislation . |
| 9 | No one expects a practitioner to have time for much theoretical musing or for large empirical studies . |
| 10 | The journalist spends time on the story and then discovers that the subject has been around for years . |
| 11 | ‘ You do n't sound to me to be in the right condition to spend time with Fishbane . ’ |
| 12 | Radio stations and television channels donate time for ‘ public service announcements ’ and the Memphis Business Journal creates a special supplement for each show . |
| 13 | Earlier this year Central and Anglia teamed up in a jointly owned group , Television Sales & Marketing Services , which has now won contracts to sell time for Border TV and the cable channel Discovery . |
| 14 | Like the good storyteller he was , Titch allowed time for this to sink in before going on . |
| 15 | Several years ago the authorities decided that the mountains needed time to ‘ rest ’ from such a massive intrusion , and the walk has never been held since . |
| 16 | It offers a vision of a future in which the importance of both parents spending time with their children is recognised , as is the right of both sexes to use their skills in the workplace to the extent of their abilities , for the benefit of us all . |
| 17 | Men working on the site complained of pressure to cut corners to save time on the delayed project . |
| 18 | This was motivated by the need for the mother to return to work or the wish for the parents to have time to themselves . |
| 19 | In effect , this machine dissected time by the weighing of successive equal quantities of fluid . |
| 20 | As Mr Sanderson was pouring the drinks Maggie had time to quickly glance about her . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | The words " but not otherwise " were held to be a sufficient contra-indication to make time of the essence . |
| 23 | I 've always been too busy building up my business to spare time for more than a few brief affairs . ’ |
| 24 | A group needs time for the processes to develop to turn a number of individuals into a group , no matter how well they know each other . |
| 25 | No need to call time on country pubs |
| 26 | The husband to have time off work to look after the children , |
| 27 | The interval permits time for contemplation and anticipation . |
| 28 | and reduces the need to spend time in limbo or the need on re-entry to reestablish oneself . |
| 29 | Under the Employment Act 1980 all pregnant women have the right to take time off work in order to receive antenatal care . |
| 30 | and the hash haze held time in a trance . |