Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of these is intended simply to mollify reluctant staff : each is intended to provide more time , to allow a fresh look to be taken or to try out different approaches when there are setbacks . |
| 2 | Bough , 59 , who is taking over Michael Parkinson 's morning slot on LBC this week , is tipped to continue full time . |
| 3 | He managed to connect all the moves except for the last in one push and doubtless would have succeeded given more time . |
| 4 | Locomotive Software has launched an entry level version of its popular LocoScript word processing package which is designed to get first time PC users up and running quickly and at minimum cost . |
| 5 | And some housekeeping tasks under DB2 3.1 such as reorganisation of the database are expected to take less time . |
| 6 | And some housekeeping tasks under DB2 3.1 such as reorganisation of the database are expected to take less time . |
| 7 | In addition they are expected to spend more time on Art and Design History and Theory and on Management and Administration . |
| 8 | For example , both student teachers and student nurses are being expected to spend more time in the professional setting , and are being encouraged to appraise their own actions and to be explicit and articulate about what they are doing and why . |
| 9 | No-one in the Liverpool dressing room is left in any doubt as to the standards they are expected to achieve each time they are selected . |
| 10 | Search 's Thunderbirds character toothbrushes are designed to make toothbrushing time fun . |
| 11 | However , the costs of production will increase as farmers are made to invest more time and money in each animal , and these costs must be met by the consumer . |
| 12 | So I told him he 'd better go , because by this time I was bubbling a bit and I wanted to kill the man : I was n't really prepared to lose any time over hitting a court welfare officer . |
| 13 | ‘ If Scotland 's opposition MPs were all prepared to work double time on a Friday , they could form the basis of a representative recalled parliament without even having to boycott Westminster . ’ |
| 14 | The example given was of a tenant against whom an order for eviction had been made securing further time in residence by appealing . |
| 15 | That 's what I say , we 've go , we 've got to go first time out next week |
| 16 | Similarly , it was long obvious that time went at the same rate for every observer , but since Einstein , we have had to accept that time goes at different rates for different observers . |
| 17 | The first word is used to describe ordinary time — past , present and future . |
| 18 | Well you 've got to withdraw that time , you 've |
| 19 | I 've got to have some time alone . |
| 20 | A fifty bed cottage hospital is under threat as G Ps have been told to spend more time in their surgeries . |
| 21 | Since then she had tended to spend more time on her own in the flat and to stay with her parents at weekends . |
| 22 | He had borrowed a car from one of his colleagues , and he felt hot , sweaty and uncertain of himself , having had to spend more time mastering the crate 's uncertain ways than in preparing himself for the meeting to come . |
| 23 | So what we 've got to spend more time on . |
| 24 | Planning officer Peter Wilson , recommending approval , said the couple had agreed to make closing time 10.30 . |
| 25 | But my hand had stopped bleeding some time ago and I could not reasonably pretend that I was wounded . |
| 26 | Another and equally disconcerting presence had materialized there — one which she had attempted to diminish some time ago and send packing from her thoughts . |
| 27 | Although he returned to the School staff after the war , he was later compelled to spend some time in a sanatorium . |
| 28 | Campaigners desperately wanted answers this time . |
| 29 | I had wanted to spend some time with the Infierno people themselves ; but , caught between two worlds , they had a very understandable fear of their traditional knowledge being ‘ stolen ’ , and did not open up the project to outsiders without good reason . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , she was killed the night before last ; but she could have gone missing some time before that . ’ |