Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've been free to go any time . |
| 2 | ‘ Any woman can have a confident and attractive aura if she is prepared to invest some time , energy and a little money into evolving her own personal style ’ . |
| 3 | The only scope for progress was to find harder abrasives , devise more effective tools for applying them and not least to be prepared to invest more time , something which depended on more powerful patronage . |
| 4 | This allows more time for attended cases , since non-attended cases tend to be dealt with very speedily . |
| 5 | In order to maintain a proper balance in your life , you must be prepared to allocate some time to yourself each day . |
| 6 | This happens many times each second . |
| 7 | Looking back , it seems odd that , although this happened many times in the moves over the years , the cars and trucks were never searched . |
| 8 | This happened several times during the night . |
| 9 | Joe and I had seen this happen many times before . |
| 10 | This requires some time to be spent on organising access to playback machines and on introducing teachers to the concept , but that time is well spent as it then frees the tutor to give individual guidance to teachers with problems . |
| 11 | You must be prepared to give some time to experimenting with various yarns and tensions until the quality of woven fabric feels just right . |
| 12 | Their generosity was appreciated being so willing to give some time explaining to a fellow enthusiast the intricacies of steaming a locomotive for the first time and the difficulties which had been experienced in the rebuilding process . |
| 13 | Priorities were changed ; more importance was attached to paid work and hence they were willing to give more time to union affairs . |
| 14 | For example , if you are catching the ball in front of the body , then you have the freedom to throw the ball in any direction but if you catch the ball behind the body , you still have to come back to the position to the front of the body and to do this takes more time . |
| 15 | As you might imagine , this takes some time and is also completely mental . |
| 16 | All I want is a few answers , then you 're free to leave any time you like . ’ |
| 17 | They needed bricks , they told him ; and some needed more time to pay . |
| 18 | All this took some time and he was not a particularly military figure at the end of it . |
| 19 | They are thus willing to pay several times more for the wealthy readers than they are for the less wealthy or poor . |
| 20 | This releases more time within the inquiry unit allocation for the development of such information skills as note taking and , in particular , the important first step : defining a need for information . |
| 21 | Would love to write to , meet , any young ladies 16-30 , who would fancy an exciting rendezvous some time in the near future . |
| 22 | If a customer wants to spend time deciding on a holiday we are prepared to spend that time . |
| 23 | Establishments were obviously catering for a different market in the evening , and it can be assumed that customers were prepared to spend more time and to pay more for a different ‘ meal experience ’ . |
| 24 | If a long time is spent teaching pupils how to present work and arguments neatly , insisting on underlined headings , dates , and sharp pencils , there are going to be problems convincing them that rough work is valuable and that you are prepared to spend some time looking at it . |
| 25 | I take photographs at this stage simply to decide on the basic composition , as this saves much time . |
| 26 | Lots of men I know are prepared to take some time ensuring their children 's food is fresh and safe , once they understand the issues . ’ |
| 27 | Since the economic advantages are overwhelming and a greater and more expert level of service can be expected it is appropriate and justifiable to spend some time on supplier selection . |
| 28 | I have played parts of this set several times over , long into the night … ( ) |
| 29 | We thought we 'd give him some work this time . ’ |
| 30 | He says that his mate bought a car from there and , he were a undecided about this clocking this time , what 's , what call it ? |