Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [verb] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hind legs have to mark time while the forelegs cross over , making the outer ring of a wheel . |
| 2 | Heads need to find time to wander into classrooms , parents and toddlers groups , dining halls and playgroups to chat to people and take an interest in what 's going on . |
| 3 | It is important to wait until the plants have had time to become well established before introducing the fish , otherwise they will uproot the plants and dirty the water , and the entire pool will then go green as the uprooted plants are unable to function . |
| 4 | Already two friends who were heading towards the key of the door well before I sat A-levels have shot time 's arrow into reverse and now they are 43 and 44 respectively . |
| 5 | It will be recognising that social workers need to spend time on practice placements abroad , and that social workers from other countries need to come here . |
| 6 | If the compartment is large enough and the bag is small enough , you can put the whole bag in the compartment , tear a small hole in it and immediately slide the glass across before the ants have had time to escape . |
| 7 | Their stories appear to rupture time , bringing them within a hair 's breadth of one another . |
| 8 | Although a branch of the Civil Service , ACAS aims for a pragmatic , not bureaucratic approach , and a number of ACAS officers have spent time working in industry . |
| 9 | Somewhere or other is a place my dad took me once , where there are tall stone buildings huddled above a blue sea , donkeys , and guys in grey suits with open white shirts and faces that look like their owners have had time to consider every move they make . |
| 10 | Yesterday they were spewed out in the aftermath of the Musgrave Park Hospital outrage but they were the same words which Mr Brooke and his predecessors have used time and time again after other bloody acts of terrorism . |
| 11 | EIGHT out of ten Ulster teachers say Government reforms have reduced time for teaching pupils , a survey revealed today . |
| 12 | Then , a few days later , after the pigeons have had time to rest , they may be taken to some other point , perhaps one hundred miles south this time , and they will repeat the trick . |
| 13 | When viewers have had time to develop their own theories about the scene , they are strongly motivated when it comes to listening to the soundtrack to check whether or not they were right . |
| 14 | SOCCER chiefs have blown time on a Sunday afternoon league — because so many players turned up drunk after lunch-time pub sessions . |
| 15 | This means that the Keynesian model may be more relevant in the short run ( in which wages and prices do not have time to adjust to demand and supply changes ) , but that the neo-classical model may be more relevant in the long run ( in which wages and prices do have time to adjust ) . |
| 16 | There does need to be some organisation and structure , teachers do need time to organise their classrooms before the start of school and no one really wants to engage in long discussions when there are children to be settled and registers to be marked . |
| 17 | Neath , who have failed to match last season 's title-winning form , mainly because the younger players have required time to adjust to the First Division , scored three tries during an eight-minute period in the second half . |
| 18 | Most good library professionals have demonstrated time and again that they understand their remit as extending to all kinds of information , independent of the way in which it is delivered . |
| 19 | Leaders need to spend time with God as an urgent priority . |
| 20 | If you are losing children do spend time with the dissatisfied parents to explore not just the event that has brought the situation to a head but dig deep for other areas of dissatisfaction , hostility or conflict . |
| 21 | But parents throughout Northern Ireland have been campaigning for the new test to be revamped or at least postponed until pupils have had time to get to grips with the new format . |
| 22 | The fundamental problem facing the Soviet Union is that the discipline which once held the centrally planned system together , however imperfectly , has collapsed before markets have had time to develop . |
| 23 | As soon as any woman gets a bit uppity , or any two or more women or young women want to spend time together , or even if we just plain disagree with the men or boys , the ultimate sanction can be applied : call her a lesbian — that will soon bring her back into line . |
| 24 | NORPLANT was licensed in Britain in May but it 's launch has been delayed until now so that doctors and nurses have had time to be properly trained in patient counselling and implant techniques … |
| 25 | In steadily increasing numbers ( Figure 3.1 ) women have found time for paid work , itself closely involved with smaller families and , allegedly , with more labour-saving devices among consumption goods in the modern home . |
| 26 | For example , many schools , colleges and environmental groups have spent time in remote islands , producing for their own use reports which contain botanical information which remains rather inaccessible . |