Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , two facts suggest that the time and priority which teams gave to supporting and promoting parents ' groups was highly influential . |
| 2 | As with the guided tours current staffing levels mean that the time spent on preparation etc. further adds to the strain on the system . |
| 3 | It may be that by the end of the century , when we are carrying all before us , some fair-minded matron will survey her predominantly female team and announce that the time has come for a Ministry for Men . |
| 4 | and announce that the time has come |
| 5 | when when they stop and the time goes on what 's the time between this that they go |
| 6 | Jews complain that the Times betrays Israel , feminists that it is chauvinist , southerners that it is pro-Yankee , priests that it is anti-Catholic . |
| 7 | Ruefully , they add that the time is not ripe , and now they are talking only about aircraft . |
| 8 | We also know that the time scale of development in our business is longer than in many other areas because , after all , in the chemical business we are , so to speak , molecular engineers : our skills consist of rearranging the chemistry of the world which has been created so that we can produce the new products . |
| 9 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
| 10 | When passing on to them family news , which they are usually anxious to hear , remember that the time for leaning on them with your more serious troubles is now past ; so unless there is some inescapable reason for giving them bad news , try to protect them from it , for they will probably be worrying about it in isolation until your next visit . |
| 11 | Assume that the time to move from one cylinder to the next is the same as the rotation time of the device , which applies for some disk devices . |
| 12 | ‘ Like when the time came at school to plan his future after he left . |
| 13 | For example , suppose that the time period involved is a year and that the base year is chosen to be 1980 . |
| 14 | Please note that the time printed on your tickets is given in the 24-hour clock system — for example 7.30 pm = 1930 hrs . |
| 15 | While there are glimmers of light the establishment of ACT two years ago increasing ecumenical activities at grass roots level , some referred to by Bishop this morning I believe that the times require a note of urgency in our response to God 's call . |
| 16 | ‘ Having seen him about six times , and having spoken to most of their leaders , I believe that the time is right for us to talk to them now , to end this whole conflict once and for all . |
| 17 | Now I believe that the time has come for us to think again about the theological side , the theological er and I make this proposal consider the feasibility of a theological examination anti- semitism and the convenor is ready to accept it Thank you sir . |
| 18 | i find that the time I spend with Danielle now is action packed and full of play , kisses and cuddles and more stimulating for us both than it was previously . |
| 19 | This systematic approach has now reached the stage that Filedt Kok , Schatborn and the initiator , Laurentius , feel that the time is ripe to publish their findings and the conclusions which can be drawn from them . |
| 20 | They argue that the time period in which the heroin ‘ epidemic ’ runs its course has a fixed length , due to the speed at which this ‘ infectious behaviour ’ saturates the ‘ susceptible ’ population by the processes of microdiffusion and macrodiffusion . |
| 21 | And I affirm that the time has come to express this truth in the life of the Church , and that is not going to go away . |
| 22 | I affirm that the time has come to express this truth in the life of the Church . |
| 23 | Yet on an island where even nature conservationists seem bent on taming every last acre , I think that the time may be ripe for bringing the word — and the kind of land it refers to — back into currency . |
| 24 | But I think that the time has come when we can and should say that it ought to apply unless there is some justification or valid explanation for its exclusion . |
| 25 | And I think that the time will come some point , when the voluntary sector will say , ‘ Well , we actually do n't have time to talk erm to carry on talking about what we 're doing and how we 're doing it . |
| 26 | But I think it 's time , I think we both agree that the time er well used because it 's for the because your Lordship will have a better understanding of the evidence when the plaintiff and the defendant give it from the witness box . |
| 27 | Yet most of these critics admit that the Times is one of the world 's great newspapers , perhaps the greatest . |
| 28 | Notice that the times of waking become a little later each day and this indicates that the cycle length is greater than 24 hours , about 25 hours in the case shown . |
| 29 | But you paint only up to the point on which your own marginal benefit equals the marginal cost of the paint you buy and the time you spend . |