Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] in time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In relation to the association of District Council 's erm proposition , that was a development package , and obviously groups want to meet in time to look at that , so we 'll see if we can find some more information on that one . |
| 2 | ( Ant begins to hum one of the latest hit sounds and starts to move in time to it . |
| 3 | He jettisoned his parachute but died after his reserve chute failed to open in time . |
| 4 | The Boundary Commission should be set to work immediately and told to report in time for new constituencies to be in place for the next election — to bring fair representation across the United Kingdom , ensuring that a vote in Scotland is no longer worth more than one in England , or a vote in one constituency worth more than one in another . |
| 5 | Make evokes merely the idea of " producing an effect " ( = the event expressed by the infinitive ) , so that causation is represented as operating instant by instant throughout the actualization of the latter and the two events are felt to coincide in time . |
| 6 | The subject of make , on the other hand , refers to the persons who will actually effect the change , and the making and the changing are felt to coincide in time ( " concurrent causation " ) . |
| 7 | Backs begin to bite in time for Twickenham |
| 8 | After a few false starts he found his rhythm and everyone began to clap in time . |
| 9 | In all the cases examined with full verbs , the bare infinitive has evoked what could be termed a coincident actualization , and its event is not represented as beginning to exist in time before that of the main verb , as depicted by this diagram of I watched him cross the street : This does not exhaust the expressive capacity of the bare infinitive , however , as we are going to see that it can also express what we will call coincident potentiality . |
| 10 | While there are some ‘ off the shelf ’ packages which can be employed to assist in time and cost controls , there are no comprehensive programmes which can simply be applied to every surveying job , basically because no two are entirely alike . |
| 11 | Mr Ceausescu had encased himself in such an impeneterable fortress that Gorbachev spared the Romanian leader from the warning he was to deliver later to Erich Honecker , that ageing leaders who failed to reform in time would pay dearly . |
| 12 | The most common cause for solicitors having to claim on their professional indemnity insurance in personal injury work is the missing of time limits and allowing cases to become statute barred , either by failing to issue in time or failing to serve in time . |
| 13 | The most common cause for solicitors having to claim on their professional indemnity insurance in personal injury work is the missing of time limits and allowing cases to become statute barred , either by failing to issue in time or failing to serve in time . |
| 14 | Miss Berggren 's hair appears to move in time of its own accord as James Brown 's Feel Good song plays . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , safety was not one of the Dreadnoughts ' strong points , and there were some horrible accidents were one car , failing to stop in time , piled into the back of the other injuring and even killing passengers on the steps . |
| 16 | The band hit their instruments harder and harder and the congregation started to stamp in time . |
| 17 | But by failing to register in time you will have lost the chance of being given preference in allocation . |
| 18 | ( 123 ) Patriotic Englishmen have been known to strike in time of war . |
| 19 | He failed to release in time to prevent the towplane from being tipped over into the ground . |
| 20 | In some areas council gritters failed to arrive in time to prevent skid-pan surfaces . |
| 21 | Then , pouncing , it had aimed a blow of its great bill at Fiver , who just managed to dodge in time . |
| 22 | Willey , credited with bringing Manly to pre-eminence before spells with Balmain , Norths , Souths and , most recently , Penrith , hopes to arrive in time for Sunday 's Yorkshire Cup semi-final replay , against Halifax . |
| 23 | And they could have continued to pay £1 a year for the next 21 years but it is claimed that they failed to act in time . |
| 24 | Her police back-up Rover failed to stop in time and ploughed into her beloved cherry-red Mercedes 500SL . |
| 25 | I 'm also hoping to put in time capsules , so people in 150 years time will know what what was happening in Southmoor and the locality . |
| 26 | As it was imperative that they get to Paris as quickly as possible they embarked on a slow train , hoping to arrive in time for their turn at the theatre . |
| 27 | I do feel that this is necessary because we are allocating or just allocating our proposed budget er a substantial amount of extra resources through the rights of way which I am thoroughly in favour of but I do think we need to know how that money is going to be used and which of the items which are to appear in the report are going to be covered by that money and which is still going to need to be addressed next year when we have to book in time for it for next year . |
| 28 | In addition , they suffered from time to time through gaps in chairmanship because ministers had failed to appoint in time . |
| 29 | Richardson , the only recognised wicketkeeper in the tour party , was struck by a ball from Allan Donald while batting and will be replaced by Kirsten or Mark Rushmere if he fails to recover in time . |
| 30 | If Walker also fails to recover in time for Tuesday 's trip to Leeds , Thorstvedt will face the agonising decision of whether to play for club or country . |