Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By using the time to improve the production process , Intel will be able to make more of the chips available initially than it usually can when it launches a new part , Paul Otellini , vice-president of the company 's microprocessor group noted — a shortage of 80386s in the early days caused disenchantment with the company at many customers for the chip , who encouraged other companies to clone the chip in the hope of ensuring steady supplies . |
| 2 | The member of staff on playground duty can be taking a policing role or can be using the time to motivate and interest children . |
| 3 | She did n't hurry , using the time to do some serious thinking . |
| 4 | Maxim looked curiously at Bruno , using the time to mask his own indecision . |
| 5 | He set about using the time to run a complete check on his detection and recording equipment . |
| 6 | It provides criteria for notification , a workable timetable ( which could , however , be improved by shortening the time limits ) and a system for authorising mergers if the parties modify their plans or give undertakings . |
| 7 | Sparing the time to make these two visits may show ways of substantially increasing the household income , and reducing its outgoings on rent , rates , prescription charges and many other expenses for which you may not have realised there is help available . |
| 8 | Also , he found that by glancing occasionally at William 's medieval illustrations he was able to prolong the actual phallic performance to well over half an hour , a personal best , even deducting the time taken to eat the cakes . |
| 9 | Running was also a popular way of passing the time int he camps set up around military installations in Iraq . |
| 10 | Just somebody was in there , poking around , shifting things , passing the time nosing into everything , and thinking he 'd put it all back the way it was before . |
| 11 | The consultation point is another one and in fact I 've made the point myself I think er last year , that for many of these very small schemes , the actual cost , staff cost , in developing the time taken to develop them , far outweighs the actual implementation cost cos this is just the implementation cost of the scheme . |
| 12 | No I was not pushing the time have you got this , put the other side on |
| 13 | This involves turning at 90° to the headrest position line and then noting the time taken to get a 5° or 10° change of bearing . |
| 14 | All these possibilities are reduced if the program is prepared off the shop-floor by those with no direct interest in shortening or lengthening the time taken to do the job for personal reasons . |
| 15 | The system can be set up experimentally by measuring the time taken to attain each speed level and minimising this time by adjusting the previous speed level ; the time taken to reach stepping rate f2 is measured and the value off , adjusted until this time is a minimum , then continue by adjusting f1 while measuring the time to reach f3 etc . |
| 16 | He considered the problem of measuring the time taken by a voice in making a single sound . |
| 17 | The system can be set up experimentally by measuring the time taken to attain each speed level and minimising this time by adjusting the previous speed level ; the time taken to reach stepping rate f2 is measured and the value off , adjusted until this time is a minimum , then continue by adjusting f1 while measuring the time to reach f3 etc . |
| 18 | Measuring the time taken reliably was obviously important . |
| 19 | The rates of diffusion of two gases may be compared by measuring the time taken for a given volume of each gas to diffuse through a porous surface under identical conditions . |
| 20 | This can make editing a time consuming and confusing exercise when working with a large piece of music . |
| 21 | A knowledge of how to set up and operate a machine could reduce the likelihood of a breakdown so minimising the time spent on repairs . |
| 22 | it 's getting the time to do it . |
| 23 | Branson himself was torn between a belief that the magazine needed more of his time , and not having the time to give it . |
| 24 | None of the frustration of seeing a great-looking slope from the chairlift and not having the time to ski it because of a lunch date in the next valley ? |
| 25 | It was through school generally and school teachers in particular that his interest was aroused and : ‘ When I was approaching the time to leave school , my interest was in athletics ; I either wanted to join the army as a PE instructor or I thought about taking a course in physical education . ’ |
| 26 | ’ I 'm not spending the time ploughing the Cochlea fever-steppes or herding Tyyrkyn mountain pigs . |
| 27 | you 're doing a time consuming operation . |
| 28 | The full foliage of May did not burn , but the mould of dry , dead leaves and brushwood on the ground caught fiercely , and flared down upon them so fast that they were forced to turn and run , having no time to take the harder way up to the crest . |
| 29 | In the study factors affecting the time taken to move spatial targets will be manipulated , and interference with spatial memory will be investigated . |
| 30 | If there had been any apprehension involving the time taken to complete the recording , there is certainly none reflected in the finished product . |