Example sentences of "[prep] the time [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , at the end of this act we are shown how his ambition has led to another theme , that of appearance and reality , where Macbeth is told by his wife to conceal his thoughts and appear to his guests to be the perfect host whereas he is really supposed to wait for the time to kill the king . |
| 2 | In the earlier stages , social and other appointments ( particularly for the time to return home ) are repeatedly broken because " someone turned up . " |
| 3 | If it takes an hour and five minutes , we charge an hour and a quarter to get for the time to get back . |
| 4 | But , for the time to come , I hope we may double our diligence , if the war with France do not obstruct our endeavours … for time is so far spent , past our meridian , that the affair calls for diligence . |
| 5 | In the meantime , you can continue to do hand work in the quiet moments and these serve also as the time to embellish your quickly-made basic garments . |
| 6 | This tough and challenging rural course finishes with a series of hills , which seem to grow steeper and more demanding as the time to challenge them comes around . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We are seeking God 's guidance about the time to go to Caux . |
| 9 | But it might be more appropriate to wait until nearer the time to send a memo , I do n't know . |
| 10 | Tractors may take a fraction of the time to do the job . |
| 11 | These figures have always traditionally been very unreliable , but I 'm hoping that it also might indicate that across the country and also in Oxfordshire we are developing what we call out-reach services and the idea is for people to get in contact with drug users who probably do n't want a lot of the time to stop using drugs . |
| 12 | Citizens in those countries retained allegiance to the political process , content most of the time to leave politics to elites , while believing that they could influence the outcome of both local and national decision-making if necessary . |
| 13 | There are difficulties in these techniques and it has proved more effective most of the time to use techniques which involve perception rather than direct interference with brain processes . |
| 14 | The horse has to succeed most of the time to retain its self-esteem and to increase it . |
| 15 | The key worker should be on hand for part of the time to settle in the new resident . |
| 16 | It was a curious conceit of imperial memoirists of the time to claim that their labours were unknown to and unappreciated by the British public . |
| 17 | The thing the thing about MPs is they they think erm You have to be fairly careful because I I spend quite a lot of time interviewing MPs and I I think that er er they 're quite interesting some of the time to talk to . |
| 18 | They want most of the time to feel confident about what they are tackling , even if they make a few mistakes , and basically optimistic about their own future and the future of education . |
| 19 | For me back to basics is how I find most of the time to run my own life , which is there are two teams and on the one hand there 's compassion , integrity and courage |
| 20 | Samuelson ( 1965 ) has argued that , as the delivery date of a futures contract approaches , the volatility of its price will increase , that is , volatility is a negative function of the time to deliver ( or maturity ) . |
| 21 | Please note that the variation of the time to pay direction comes into effect on the date of this letter . |
| 22 | Recently , reduction of the time to market has attracted significant attention as market needs become increasingly unpredictable and unstable , as technology is diversified and changes rapidly , and as competition intensifies . |
| 23 | In determining how much can be achieved in 15 minutes , consideration is taken of the time to store/restore and the time to verify , and equal durations of seven and a half minutes are allocated to these phases . |
| 24 | A series of passages were read by adults in this experiment , with the time to read each sentence being measured . |
| 25 | Table 6 shows that increase in the time to respond yes was significantly great between memory set sizes of 2 and 3 and 3 and 4 . |
| 26 | However , when positive judgements were made , the difference in the time to make such a judgement between the two conditions remained at just over 400 ms . |
| 27 | Of those who laughed then , there are countless numbers who are no longer laughing today , and those who are still laughing now , will perhaps also not be doing it any longer in the time to come . ’ |
| 28 | Hopefully , in the near future , I will say that I am cured , but I do know that whatever I have learned about myself , through the Alexander Technique , will always be with me in the future and will help me through any other crisis in the time to come . |
| 29 | All we can do is shape the means by which they approach us and the terms on which they will live with us in the time to come , that we may keep our honour and our identity , and be their free neighbours and allies , not their villeins . |
| 30 | That is true but unless you invest in the time to capture those skills , either by training your own staff or by hiring an external designer to show you how it 's done , it is almost inevitable that the quality of your published material will go down , not up . |