Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As channel activity usually occurred in bursts ( Figs 1A and 2A ) , mean open and mean closed times , and open and closed time distribution histograms were obtained by restricting the analyses to individual bursts during 20–30 s of continuous recording . |
| 4 | At least we wo n't dally — no humming and hawing — no referring the matter to superiors and wasting valuable time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Stanlow to Aberystwyth Wednesdays only 0100 ex Stanlow is the only freight west of Salop and keeps odd times some weeks . |
| 9 | In order to study effectively you need to be organised and to put sufficient time aside to learn and to reflect . |
| 10 | James and I continued to go out and have lovely times together , but after a couple of years it slowly began to dawn on me that I was expanding . |
| 11 | With the benefit of hindsight , these are now estimated at £4,900 , comprising expenses of £1,220 and lost chargeable time of £3,680 . |
| 12 | Mr Mansell , the first Indy-500 rookie to finish the full distance in 23 years , at one point drove past his pit and lost valuable time . |
| 13 | I obtained my PhD in 1978 and started full time work on ‘ soft money . ’ |
| 14 | If you do this you are unlikely to face the problem of forgetting about work and having inadequate time to do an assignment justice . |
| 15 | Living alone and trying to bring up a small daughter is no easy task , and taking extra time to learn a new skill is just an added burden . ’ |
| 16 | Considerable work has been carried out on methods for analysing and modelling individual time series of observations . |
| 17 | They paused dramatically and gave Jacqui time to say , ‘ Charles , they 've got a new will . |
| 18 | Generally , eating problems can be avoided by being flexible with your puppy from the start , varying the eating location , alternating types of dog food , and changing feeding times . |
| 19 | The paper included plans to privatize British Rail and London buses , to increase competition for the Post Office , to expedite the contracting out of local authority services to the private sector , and to shorten waiting times for hospital admissions . |
| 20 | But those Somerville years remain with us , and the friends , and the ageless dons , some livelier , more liberal , than one ever knew ; and it 's good to go back and recall old times , good and bad . |
| 21 | We two were the youngest in the family and had lovely times together . |
| 22 | are churned out poorly and take extra time |
| 23 | In contrast , however , the Cleveland Report is particularly sensitive to such issues in relation to sexual abuse and spends considerable time trying to weigh the often conflicting evidence it received on identification and assessment , particularly in terms of the reflex anal dilatation test . |
| 24 | Among the benefits to patients that will be derived from trust status for south Ayrshire , I envisage the improved use of facilities , mainly theatres , enhancing cost-effectiveness , increasing throughput and reducing waiting times , upgrading the facilities at Ballochmyle and Biggart , as well as investment , for example , in a CAT scanner and a short-stay surgical unit , and perhaps in the longer-term investment in phase 2 being brought forward . |
| 25 | ‘ I really admire you , bringing up four from the time the youngest was only five and working full time . |
| 26 | Eventually he had to make a choice between management and working full time in front of the cameras — so he resigned at Villa . |
| 27 | A third patient died suddenly after rupture of an aortic aneurysm 63 months after orthotopic transplantation , having been previously well and working full time . |
| 28 | The night of horror is wonderfully suggested in half-a-dozen groups , beautifully related in the surface-design but episodically conceived and covering different times ( Astyanax alive and dead ) . |
| 29 | Those who argue that creating such a structure would take years and waste valuable time are probably right . |
| 30 | Very often , with the benefit of hindsight , people can look back on their lives and identify stressful times more easily than identifying the present stresses that may surround them . |