Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet she felt bound to warn , ‘ But , there has to come a time soon when you must let go of the past … or go to Richard and Beth with all that is in your heart . ’ |
| 2 | The cuckoo can not lay its egg while the future foster-parent is in residence ; it has to pick a time when the parent bird has left the nest — and the eggs — so that it can perform its surreptitious substitution . |
| 3 | That relieved me from the embarrassment of having to ask for it in front of the stoical poker-faced brigade of women who often assembled in the shop in their curlers and headsquares to pass the time of day . |
| 4 | This concept , brilliantly and amusingly elucidated in book of that name published the previous year by Professor C. Northcote Parkinson , stated : ‘ Work expands to fill the time available for its completion . ’ |
| 5 | Parkinson 's Law states that ‘ work expands to fill the time available ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Housewifery expands to fill the time available ’ — this principle was discovered by Betty Friedan in her 1950s tour of American suburbia . |
| 7 | Cyril Northcote Parkinson , prolific author and inventor of Parkinson 's Law — which holds that all work expands to fill the time available for its completion — has died , aged 83 . |
| 8 | Camcorders are rather power-hungry beasts and the average of forty minutes of recording time per charge seems to last no time at all when you are actually on a shoot — a spare battery can be a god-send . |
| 9 | It helps to pass the time . |
| 10 | Early discussion with the authority 's officers to see exactly what information they require with the application , as well as to ensure that the proposed development is basically acceptable to the authority obviously helps to reduce the time needed . |
| 11 | A final method of curtailing debate arises under Standing Order No. 22 which authorises the Speaker or a chairman to stop a Member who seeks to waste the time of the House by tediously repeating himself . |
| 12 | Where a party seeks to extend a time limit imposed in the rules , he must apply for directions as above ( FPCR , r15(4) ; FPR , r4.15(1) ) . |