Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | House prices may average three times incomes . |
| 2 | ‘ The country is less broken farther on , so we should make better time tomorrow and be out of the hills the day after that . ’ |
| 3 | This incident made me realise that our careful descriptions of the relationship between dialect and Standard English might be misread , and so in the final Report I insisted that we should reiterate many times that all pupils should learn , and if necessary be explicitly taught , Standard English . |
| 4 | It should do this time if your if Is this right ? |
| 5 | This should give enough time to devise a workable document . |
| 6 | However , as the entry of a new hotel is a relatively slow process from planning appliction to operation this should give sufficient time for existing hotels to develop appropriate strategies . |
| 7 | Athletics is the most successful sport in Britain and we should spend more time talking about that . ’ |
| 8 | Instead of attacking the Prison Officers Association , the Government should spend more time ensuring that the money and resources are available that will enable the prison service to work ; otherwise , the result will be the wanton destruction that occurred atStrangeways . |
| 9 | We should spend more time trying to bring whatever expertise we may have to bear on the subject in question . |
| 10 | Perhaps they should spend more time concentrating on protecting interests of workers than promoting constitutional debate within the Party . |
| 11 | Both the Royal College and childbirth groups agree that consultant obstetricians should spend more time in the labour ward helping junior staff . |
| 12 | ‘ You should spend less time contemplating your navel and more time studying human nature , sonny . |
| 13 | It is an old piece of advice that if you want to work in an area ( insurance , real estate or food ) you should spend some time working in that area . |
| 14 | It is thought that 16 months should provide sufficient time for new pension arrangements to be set up , but if difficulties arose the powers in clause 12 would be available to the Secretary of State . |
| 15 | To avoid the technical difficulties with Feynman 's sum over histories , one must use imaginary time . |
| 16 | A belief held by a number of software designers is that if the software is properly designed then there should be no need for an emulator ; it should work first time . |
| 17 | During times of recession he did everything possible to avoid making men redundant , preferring that all should work short time . |
| 18 | A Brazilian lucky enough to earn the minimum wage must work four times longer now for a basic food ration than she would have done in 1959 . |
| 19 | If possible we must spend that time at Coate [ where Edward then was ] , and now I long to go to Horsmonden , for every place where you have lived and been happy , is to me dearer than any others . |
| 20 | Especially in trying to foster a culture of open communication and widely shared ideas , managers and others must spend enormous time communicating and sharing ideas . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've told her she must spend less time in the prop room . ’ . |
| 22 | Surely we , as the ruling intelligentsia , should have posher time than the slaves and plebs ? ’ |
| 23 | He should have enough time to finish his drink and be away before his fellow-officers started to drift in . |
| 24 | That she should have wasted time crying over him was not just amazing , it was incredible . |
| 25 | The company has been operating independently since January 1 , and is not yet being treated as a discontinued operation by Tandy , although that should happen next time the company reports . |
| 26 | Everyone agrees that this means both sides must be heard , but it is disputed whether it also means that both sides must have equal time even though the arguments of one side are more complex or require more witnesses than the other . |
| 27 | The explicit extension of the abstract convention then includes the proposition that both sides must be heard , but it does not include either the proposition that they must have equal time or the contrary proposition that the party with the more difficult case must have more time . |
| 28 | And anyone who came calling at that time today must have more time than sense , because today was Tuesday . |
| 29 | The explicit extension of the abstract convention then includes the proposition that both sides must be heard , but it does not include either the proposition that they must have equal time or the contrary proposition that the party with the more difficult case must have more time . |
| 30 | In order to use the monitor however , the speaker must have sufficient time to mentally prepare the utterance ( usually this means it can not be used in conversation ) , must be concentrating on the form of the message itself and must have complete knowledge of the rule , or rules , which have to be brought into use . |