Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous Bill had passed through Committee and was well advanced ‘ when international affairs so occupied the time of this House that it was impossible to carry the Measure to the Statute Book ’ . |
| 2 | Jones referred to ‘ cranks — long-haired men and short-haired women ’ who formed the ( British ) Socialist Party , and explained that the title of NSP better represented the time and circumstances than SDI' because ‘ social democrat was associated with Germany and Germanic thought , and during the present war the action of most of the social democrats of Germany had made the term stink in the nostrils of most people ’ ( SE 1 June 18 ) . |
| 3 | For some years , therefore , he has only read The Times . |
| 4 | Babur rings Keith and tells Keith he is the only one who has not arranged the time off yet . |
| 5 | If he met anyone he could say , with perfect truthfulness , that he had been absorbed in correcting students ' essays and had not realised the time until it was after five o'clock ? |
| 6 | If you try and arrange a meeting with a colleague or even a group of colleagues and he or they have already booked the time slot you want , you get to know about it before it 's too late . |
| 7 | Because teachers often can not answer the question of why they teach as they do and because they refer to statements such as that they just know what to do or have a feeling or sense about what to do , it has been suggested that what guides teachers in making sense of their work and what commits them to action is a mixture of " personal knowledge , tacit knowledge , routine knowledge … when conscious thought is not permitted the time to percolate and inform practice " ( Simons and Elliott 1989 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Louise , dear , I 've just noticed the time . |
| 9 | Dave is a dog lover but because of his army routine and duties , he has not had the time or lifestyle to be able to keep a dog . |
| 10 | I have not had the time or sometimes the knowledge to identify all the organisms I found , but the species list to date ( Tables I and 2 ) totals 1731 . |
| 11 | Another , closely related , hypothesis is that at the end of each day we have in our unconscious a sort of ragbag of bits and pieces of experience which our conscious mind has not had the time , opportunity or inclination to process ; once again , the function of the dream is to deal with this material . |
| 12 | ‘ Tomorrow we will look for a house to rent but as I only arrived in London this morning I have not had the time . |
| 13 | ‘ I have not had the time to devote to business lately , but now that my grandmother is feeling better … ’ |
| 14 | because she 's just not got the time |
| 15 | have not got the time to be doing |
| 16 | They had not reached the time for sharing out . |
| 17 | Between transatlantic flights and coping with paternity , he has somehow found the time to make another series of The Thing is … for Channel Four . |
| 18 | They had not taken the time to find out that it was actually the women who traditionally grew the rice for domestic consumption and then exchanged the surplus for other goods or services . |
| 19 | She and Mungo had already passed the time of day with him . |
| 20 | Have you ever taken the time to ask parents what makes a good school ? |
| 21 | Linda had always passed the time of day with her when Doris had been able to get out and about , but now the old woman was con fined to her house with arthritis . |
| 22 | We have also omitted the time of unpaid informal carers and their lost employment opportunities . |
| 23 | Similarly the glass column — later titled the Time Rotor in a Terry Nation script — was originally conceived as a navigational aid of very advanced design . |
| 24 | ‘ We have now reached the time when you become lost in the mountains until they forget you . ’ |
| 25 | As a star opera director whose career is becoming increasingly orientated towards the theatre , it is understandable that he has n't often found the time to stray from the great metropolises to mount a production . |
| 26 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 27 | The Ellan Vannin Diaries have obligingly altered the time of their deliveries to a later hour in response to one or two complaints of sleep disturbance . |
| 28 | And which we , we were n't granted the time off , we were granted time off without pay but not paid leave . |
| 29 | He says he has n't got the time to spend — they 'll need evenings and evenings , far more than once a week . |
| 30 | Have n't got the time , |