Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The person concerned will obviously know the time and property concerned . |
| 2 | This will avoid the inclination of either management or labour to wrongly allocate the time spent on work attracting bonus to other non-bonus operations . |
| 3 | Building an ambulance station would only improve the time the ambulance took to reach the emergency . |
| 4 | the authority will perhaps have the time to consider overall policy objectives and the context in which all the schools and colleges operate . |
| 5 | Not all advisers feel comfortable asking clients for these personal details nor do they necessarily have the time to do it . |
| 6 | That perhaps it 's easier to do in a smaller department , I mean I 've got checkouts , and the majority of my staff are part-time , and I 've only got three full-timers , so it 's quite often the case that at nine thirty , one thirty , five thirty , eight thirty , it 's a case of coming in and then relieving somebody else straight away , you do n't necessarily have the time to spend with them . |
| 7 | Thus a pattern mask will greatly reduce the time available for a letter detector to generate and transmit a code to the lexical output systems , but will not affect the time available to a word detector . |
| 8 | One can only imagine the time , the patience , the dedication , the sheer labour . |
| 9 | Thus a pattern mask will greatly reduce the time available for a letter detector to generate and transmit a code to the lexical output systems , but will not affect the time available to a word detector . |
| 10 | Every type of food is readily available and preparation and cooking have never been easier ; and if he can not spare the time , convenience foods reduce the time required for shopping and preparation to the bare minimum . |
| 11 | Anyway , they have not really the transport for a journey as far as this and in any case , they could not spare the time from work . ’ |
| 12 | In typical style Shaheen had commissioned the QE2 to take a large party of people to the opening and offered me a cabin on her , but as I could not spare the time and was not sure that I would be entirely at home with my fellow passengers , I flew over in response to his invitation . |
| 13 | There are two dangers to be avoided , if you can avoid them , in the choice of chambers : reading with someone who is too busy , who can not spare the time to give you instruction , except possibly over a snack lunch , and reading with someone who has not enough work to give you proper experience . |
| 14 | As the traders often can not spare the time to come to the staff restaurant , they can place their breakfast and lunch orders in advance and CCG staff serve them at their desks . |
| 15 | And does it not make the time problem even worse ? |
| 16 | If I can not make the time myself it might still be worth paying Dessie Clancy and his lad . ’ |
| 17 | Even if the security is ample , the bank will not want the time , trouble and loss of goodwill involved in attempting to repossess its loan . |
| 18 | The real losers are the ‘ transport poor ’ ( chapter 6 ) , and the reason for this is that official estimates of the costs of key settlement policies do not generally include the time and money costs of individuals . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , we do not know the time of year when Lady Godiva is supposed to have ridden out . |
| 20 | This is one reason why TV buyers may wish to keep part of their budgets flexible beyond the time when they might usually prefer to commit themselves — they may , of course , find that they can not buy the time they want , but this is a risk they may be willing to take in order to get a better price . |
| 21 | Do not send the time advised of the illness code sensitive illnesses appropriately ) |
| 22 | Do not underestimate the time required to prepare a cocktail party — a four-course dinner often takes less time ! |
| 23 | ‘ I do not resent the time , but I do resent the fact we have not secured anything . |
| 24 | There are a large number of organisations where the converse is true : it is not possible to find much talent and they do not occupy the time and effort of executive searchers . |
| 25 | As Bloch has commented , ‘ To us accustomed to live with our eyes constantly turning to the clock , how remote from our civilization seems this society in which a court of law could not ascertain the time of day without discussion and inquiry ! ’ |
| 26 | It is true that William Cobbett , born in 1766 , was to write , " I do not remember the time when I did not earn my living " , but he was the son of a moderately successful small farmer in a district where hop growing enabled a decent living from small acreages for a family with three sons to help work it . |
| 27 | The presence of 200 nmol/l staurosporine did not alter the time course of the desensitisation that was seen when HGT-1 cells were exposed to histamine at 37°C ( data not shown . |
| 28 | Clearly , before the sound begins we can not measure the time it is going to take , but after it has sounded how can we measure it , since it is then no more ? |
| 29 | It was an enormous subject upon which we had embarked , and I felt that , as a minor guest of the monastery , I must not monopolize the time of the guest whom everyone wanted to meet . |
| 30 | You simply do not have the time for the ‘ one — pause — two ’ sequences so beloved in basic training . |