Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] time in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senior officers may also impose such conditions as a change of route or starting time in the interests of public order . |
| 2 | An exhausted Miranda found that instead of having more time , she had almost a full-time job keeping present and future shareholders informed and happy : she prepared official reports , gave institutional and pension-fund presentations , attended city lunches , and made time in her overfilled schedule for the financial press . |
| 3 | Since 1953 the United States has been subjected to rapidly reduced lead time on computer innovation , from several years ' lead time in the 1950s and 1960s to zero and lag time in the 1980s . |
| 4 | Briefly , though , the bases for systems of reckoning and measuring time in most languages seem to be the natural and prominent cycles of day and night , lunar months , seasons and years . |
| 5 | These would be needed to control small incidents , to meet Britain 's global commitments , and to buy time in an all-out conflict until the strategic nuclear forces of the West had crippled the USSR . |
| 6 | Children particularly who knew him well , and spent time in his company , invariably recall his ease of manner with them and his absorption in their pursuits . |
| 7 | He played the bagpipes at John Kennedy 's funeral , performed in front of the Queen at Balmoral and spent time in America with Glen Campbell , performing at the Las Vegas Hilton . |
| 8 | Ngugi is unimpressed by much of this ‘ progress ’ ; he has been an outspoken critic of the Kenyan Government and spent time in jail as result . |
| 9 | John McCarthy , Terry Waite , Jackie Mann and spent time in a special unit where Dr Turnbull helped them come to terms with what had happened to them . |
| 10 | First though it 's rugby and crunch time in the Courage League tomorrow . |
| 11 | First though it 's rugby and crunch time in the Courage League tomorrow . |
| 12 | The kind of determinism dominant in the book is exemplified in his discussion of tense : On the other hand it could be said that the English tense system offers speakers the choice of whether to see time in this way . |
| 13 | Allowing doctors to choose whether to spend time in teaching , or research , or management will work only if all of the options are seen to be of equal importance . |