Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 IF you want to know the time , ask a policeman .
2 The exception is a Warwickshire shopping centre where they look at a peacock when they want to know the time .
3 To take a simple example , the Social Science Data Archive at Essex has a fine run of survey data from Family Expenditure Survey and General Household Survey well suited to the needs of those who want to create a time series as a part of current social science analysis .
4 The new board changes appear to favour the Time side of the group .
5 If you want to give the time … do n't unnecessarily expose yourself to danger
6 They have to be accelerated/automated and made readily available if we want to reduce the time needed to reach a solution to a problem .
7 Yeah you want to have a time to go to bed .
8 After all , the government itself has felt it necessary to set up an agency simply to find fathers who want to spend no time at all with their families .
9 IF YOU want to tell the time , do n't buy a clock from Kovacs in Madison Avenue , New York .
10 It 's an excellent idea , and sadly one that only custom builders — and one must include Jackson here , as Jackson include the feature on their ‘ custom ’ guitars — seem to have the time to implement properly .
11 The staff at Inside Job like to take the time to help each customer select the appropriate style , fabric , carpet , wallpaper , paint , upholstery and any other soft furnishings that are needed .
12 She came home in despair and went back to the clinic to work rather than spend the Sunday alone , or try to pass the time with friends .
13 Watch him stretch , yawn , look across at me and come out with those perfect forty-year-old clichés they use to make the time pass easily and without controversy .
14 The expected decline in services may simply mean that we come to regret the time when we felt that having a significant manufacturing base was an optional extra we could do without .
15 If you are to enjoy the college experience to the full , you need to lose no time in finding your way around college .
16 Yet it 's James they have to thank every time they sink into their armchairs to listen to their favourite classics .
17 We need to tighten the time schedules for the writing of reports , and ensure that the workloads are more evenly spread than they are in some cases at the moment .
18 I think you need to set a time actually .
19 You allow people to say what they like , write it down , you have to set a time limit because people get tired , it is a very sort of , it takes a lot of energy to do this , and concentrate on it .
20 Clearly , you need to use the time you have available to consolidate what is going to be in the foreground — what is central to your essay — rather than in mugging up materials which at best can only ever form marginal elements of the final piece of work .
21 To stop this happening you need to convert the time to a fixed value .
22 and er I only have to mention the time though , oh dear
23 If I have to name a time I 'm thinking of running around the three hour mark . ’
24 But , of course , if you 're going to be another voice you really need to know what you 're talking about and you need to have vast access to information at least as good as all the departments who are putting forward their voices , and you need to have the time and the staff and I do n't think they always had that .
25 ‘ To integrate the information for each line , we have to take the time to make sure we have all of the elements necessary to verify the bills electronically , ’ Gilmont said .
26 ‘ There are no barriers being put up on the basis of age but the national team is now in a situation in qualifying Group I where they have to produce every time in the six ties that remain to be played .
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