Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | What could you stop doing , or devote less time to , or ask someone else to do ? |
| 2 | Management has a choice about workers : it can pay them a pittance to control an on-off button , or minimise down time by training them to fix — ie program — the new machines . |
| 3 | At school leaving age , parents who had previously been able to cope with a child attending or possibly boarding at a special school are faced with the continuing prospect of full time life with their mentally handicapped son or daughter who may be unable to find a place in a training centre or enter full time education . |
| 4 | Or spend more time alone ? |
| 5 | It is only through a combined approach that school will be enabled to deliver all their programmes of study and make enough time to do more . |
| 6 | She would settle back into her safe routine and forget this time . |
| 7 | I think when I meet — and maybe would count them not in hundreds , but in tens — when I meet women who make those sorts of comments and say this time last year I would not have said that , then those sorts of things encourage me very much . |
| 8 | After the ceremony , at around one in the morning , Dustin rang his friend , actor Stanley Beck ( who would later appear in John and Mary and Lenny , and co-produce Straight Time ) , telling him he had nowhere to stay the night . |
| 9 | From a school management point of view , valuable lessons about the nature of curriculum change , the processes involved and the need to plan for and provide adequate time and resource for all staff involved , have been learnt . |
| 10 | Cut out some administration today and put more time into leading your people to an even more profitable contribution . |
| 11 | The work redoubled in intensity after the later 1960s , when he realised that he could afford to go part-time as an architectural assistant and create more time for the research . |
| 12 | Time spent in careful planning at the beginning of a test can make the test more efficient and economical and save much time in its execution . |
| 13 | Eddie Heley , Maintenance Fitter , was given £10 for an idea that could reduced wear and save down time on Axminster looms by fitting hardened brushes to the sneck sleeve bracket . |
| 14 | Transformational changes take years , not months ; it is important that the executive managers understand and accept this time perspective . |
| 15 | This would enable the men on the bank to keep her head up and give more time to spend on the attempts to raise her from the quagmire . |
| 16 | ‘ Try and remember next time , ’ the clerk snapped . |
| 17 | Therefore , refuse to be browbeaten or discouraged , especially around the time of the full Moon on the 10th , and devote more time and attention to your general health and wellbeing . |
| 18 | This would slow its progress towards Europe and allow more time for negotiations . |
| 19 | His plan for that was to go into the restaurant car park and allow enough time for the other car to clear the fuel service area , then fill his own tank and give chase . |
| 20 | Results show that these patients recover at a much faster rate , that they are more optimistic , less ‘ self-pitying ’ and demand less time and attention from nursing staff than those who did not have the opportunity for anticipatory mourning . |
| 21 | Given the significance of regular heroin use , the psychological and physical dependency often associated with the drug , and the all-embracing nature of the lifestyle usually required to secure funds and supplies , users tend to live from moment to moment and find little time for reflecting upon their situation . |
| 22 | and suppose this time that the part-whole nature of the ‘ in the hand ’ modification is not detected by semantic rules , but only by plausibility checking . |
| 23 | cash and carry next time . |
| 24 | Oh , why do n't you make what you 've got cos you 've got a lot of things to make at the moment , and then come back and choose another time , hm . |
| 25 | I did and I chose black and grey that time round . |
| 26 | are churned out poorly and take extra time |
| 27 | Before inserting the l.e.d. clip , clean the front panel with meths and take some time to create an impressive design using rub-down lettering and symbols . |
| 28 | Go and take some time off . |
| 29 | After swimming she had felt completely alive and glad to be awake and have this time of her own , which had been a gift to her from Tom and Maggie . |
| 30 | Consequently some CMHC teams tend to focus on more articulate , well-organized , socially competent people in a transient state of distress and have less time for the more seriously disturbed and those with long-term disorders who are less readily engaged in treatment . |