Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For these considerable services he received nothing , his enemies using the time he was away to poison Francesco I Sforza against him , not least because they were jealous of the work on the chapel . |
| 2 | Two or three of Dr McNab 's supporters wasted no time in surreptitiously slipping their cards of emergency instructions from their pockets , crossing out the name McNab , and substituting that of his rival , before settling back to watch their new champion in the lists . |
| 3 | Then in the 1979 paper he found that subjects placed the time of occurrence of this sensation only a few milliseconds after the peripheral stimulus which evoked it . |
| 4 | At the same time , Libet set up a procedure for allowing subjects to report the time at which they first experienced the conscious intention to act . |
| 5 | She knew that Maggie was being polite , trawling for subjects to pass the time till she could safely move away . |
| 6 | Given this scenario one would have thought that it was clear for all to see that what is required are urgent steps to reduce the time , and opportunity for offending , between being apprehended for an offence and having that offence dealt with by the courts . |
| 7 | But when Edinburgh University 's Professor David Wood-Gush and colleagues released factory-raised pigs into a semi-wild environment on the Pentland Hills , the animals lost no time in gathering twigs , grass and branches to build communal nests in which to sleep . |
| 8 | Did the authors record the time of uterine contraction after delivery and , if so , was there any relation to neonatal outcome ? |
| 9 | You may open your eyes to check the time , but do not use an alarm . |
| 10 | The planning department found that business units considered the time horizon of the issues to be too long to be of relevance and these issues were therefore considered to be ‘ back of the mind ’ flagging signals and were therefore not acted on . |
| 11 | Two ELIZABETHANS passing the time in a place without any visible character . |
| 12 | These were the gig mills , which raised the nap on the cloth prior to shearing and vastly shortened the time needed compared with the old hand method , and shearing frames , which by mechanically aligning the heavy forty-pound shears reduced the time taken to a quarter . |
| 13 | I was n't naive enough to expect the goodies to win every time , but over the long-haul , and certainly in the last reel , I sort of weakly , vaguely , wetly assumed that things would come right . |
| 14 | Estimating the potential market for oil and gas technology at £2 billion a year , Mr Beveridge urged offshore supply companies to waste no time investigating opportunities . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't like you , either , ’ he admitted , and they both knew that liking had nothing to do with the seething emotions aroused every time they touched or came close . |
| 16 | Because it is inexpensive , burning incense-sticks to tell the time continued to be used down to the present century . |
| 17 | Or the little portable sundials which shepherds used to carry up into the mountains to tell the time by ; or , a last reassuringly bucolic reminder that Bayonne 's fighting days are over , an English bayonet from the Napoleonic wars converted for stripping corn-cobs . |
| 18 | The Exclusion Parliaments found no time to discuss Haines 's scheme , but , along with the proposals of Thomas Firmin [ q.v. ] , |
| 19 | It is difficult within organisational constraints for social workers to find the time to do marital work and it is even harder to find time to do so for elderly couples . |
| 20 | First , we can use hoards to define the time individual coin types remained in circulation , since we can tell from them how long a particular coin continued to be available for hoarders . |
| 21 | ‘ If you can spend five weeks having the time of your life and get paid at the end of it — why not ? ’ he asks . |
| 22 | Remanoid 's Aquafresh filters use the time honoured system of trickle bar , mechanical foam of various densities from fine to coarse , and their own Flocor type plastic media . |
| 23 | Of course the primary years mark a time when children must master language . |
| 24 | It is it is it 's a statement of fact that in the ten years preceding the time er when that comment was written , which was in the er mid-eightie mid-eighties , erm that had been the case , that 's absolutely true . |
| 25 | After this initial time of taking in the news and trying to deal with its implications comes a time of absorbing the message given and trying to act on it . |
| 26 | Normative rulings , then , do not apply to a fixed role apart from the incumbent ; they can be developed only as individuals have the time and occasion to become familiar with each others ' past history and future intentions . |
| 27 | and they hate it , and after , after a week , after a week of having their paws squeezed every time they jump up , stop . |
| 28 | Only that we would want all students to experience these things to the fullest , so that they all have varied and rich experiences in all these spheres , and that we make special efforts to provide the time and space for the students to explore and develop their abilities and inclinations to learn and develop personal qualities without being directed . |
| 29 | Instead , longitudinal studies incorporating a time dimension are also required for supplying historical perspective , together with a sharper appreciation of change through time and the conditions which generate it . |
| 30 | The other lanes show the time course of the dissociation from which it can be seen that there are time dependent changes in the footprinting pattern which eventually becomes like that of the control . |