Example sentences of "[prep] the time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Fatigue contributes to the fall-off in performance that occurs as the time spent awake ( or on duty ) increases . |
| 32 | The visiting players have been in England for some days , and all four are becoming understandable twitchy as the time to make the first moves approaches . |
| 33 | It was also clear that there was in general an imbalance between the time employed and the labour requirements of the enterprises , indicating a lack of skills and a need for extended training . |
| 34 | The association between reading skill and the use of the GPC route was confirmed by a negative correlation between the time taken to pronounce a list of words and the size of the pseudo-homophone impairment : the more skilled children gave a greater indication of being slowed down by the appearance of nonwords which sounded like words . |
| 35 | Increase the time on the outbound leg by half the difference between the time taken on the first turn from the entry heading ( 145° above ) and from the hold axis . |
| 36 | Forster and Olbrei found that there was a significant correlation ( .65 ) between the time taken to respond to a plausible sentence and its implausible equivalent , and hence concluded that the time taken to analyse a syntactic structure was approximately constant , and independent of semantic constraints . |
| 37 | What matters is the difference between the time taken by cumulative selection , and the time which the same computer , working flat out at the same rate , would take to reach the target phrase if it were forced to use the other procedure of single-step selection : about a million million million million million years . |
| 38 | The major area of debate concerns the balance between the time spent on learning information skills versus the time spent on learning interviewing skills . |
| 39 | But the legal tangle surrounding ‘ culpability ’ was never really unravelled : no eye-witnesses , contradictory evidence on possible mechanical faults , discrepancies about the time recorded for the breathalyser test — these factors resulted in Kemp getting away comparatively lightly , being banned from driving for three years only , with what must have seemed to many the derisory fine of only four hundred pounds . |
| 40 | We are seeking God 's guidance about the time to go to Caux . |
| 41 | But just think about the time involved . |
| 42 | Try to be positive about the time taken . |
| 43 | The document said the Government was aware of concern about the time taken to complete assessments and that admitted unnecessary delays caused ‘ undue anxiety ’ to parents . |
| 44 | ‘ My complaint is about the time taken for the ambulance to arrive . |
| 45 | The team became more accepting and realistic about the time demanded by the investigation service . |
| 46 | They concern fine judgements about the time spent in the non-reproductive phase versus time spent in collaborative reproduction and they also concern subtle choices of companion at all times . |
| 47 | Even though caring meant postponing many of the plans Mary and Jim had for their retirement , when her father died , Mary expressed satisfaction about the time spent caring for him . |
| 48 | Indeed so professional was her performance that halfway through the time allotted to us , we found we had finished . |
| 49 | The company claims it can trim 10% to 15% off the time needed to resolve a customer call or problem . |
| 50 | ‘ … for many years after the time named in this Ramble , Great College Street — beyond the terrace of houses extending to the entrance of Messrs. Goodall 's existing premises — was totally impassable even as a footpath in the winter . |
| 51 | ( 4 ) On renewing a licence under this Part of this Act a licensing board may by order , to be served on the holder , direct that , within a time fixed by the order , such structural alterations shall be made in the premises comprising the canteen as the board thinks reasonably necessary to secure the proper conduct of the canteen ; and if , when application for renewal of the licence is next made after the time fixed by the order has expired , it is not shown to the satisfaction of the licensing board that the order has been complied with , the licensing board may refuse to renew the licence . |
| 52 | ( b ) Continuations There is a statutory presumption that where a partnership continues after the time fixed for its termination the provisions of the original agreement will continue to apply . |
| 53 | Indeed , some verbs seem to have no lexical content beyond one which is aimed at providing some kind of reservation about applicability of the adjectival property , examples being become and turn which place a temporal restriction on the adjective 's applicability ; the subordinate property only holds after the time indicated by the tense of the verb . |
| 54 | ‘ We ca n't fix a definite time of death until after the post mortem , but we 're working on the assumption that it was shortly after the time agreed for the rendezvous — midnight . |
| 55 | After the time taken to reconstruct the Jubilee cars in the Department 's own workshop , at the expense of routine body overhauls , it was decided to seek commercial manufacturer to build the new trams . |
| 56 | But it might be more appropriate to wait until nearer the time to send a memo , I do n't know . |
| 57 | He said the intention was that beds in intensive care units were managed so that the were occupied 70pc of the time leaving a 30pc capacity to take emergency cases like road accident victims . |
| 58 | The odds are that the engine of public policy change will , in fact , make few significant journeys and will spend most of the time hissing and panting in a siding . |
| 59 | People of the time called these farming tenancies " tenancies at will " , as do today 's historians . |
| 60 | William Turner , a botanist of the time remarked that " it restores natural heat , and comforts the vital spirits , and helps the memory , and quickens the senses " . |