Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [vb infin] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My pulse , as yours , doth temperately keep time ’ , OMF iv , 16 . |
| 2 | He does not waste time on definitions . |
| 3 | The client does not know what to expect and it is your responsibility to ensure that he or she does not waste time trying to contact you at inappropriate times . |
| 4 | Time is not considered in classical theories yet no experiment can be made which does not involve time . |
| 5 | There are many complex legal aspects of the running of a company which the nature of this text does not allow time to consider . |
| 6 | Half an hour is the minimum for each side ; so if the moot starts at 8.30 p.m. , and if three judges each take ten minutes to give judgment , it is 10 p.m. even if not a minute has been lost — and this does not allow time for the presiding judge to invite the audience to comment before judgment is given . |
| 7 | In both cases this is a real emergency , because in the event of a cable break the pilot does not have time to realise what is wrong , and he may well stall and spin if he flies by attitude and tries to turn without checking the actual speed . |
| 8 | When a melt of any kind is cooled rapidly , it does not have time to sort its atoms out into the ordered atomic structures of mineral crystals . |
| 9 | Reply : The Premier 's deputy secretary Jonathan Haslam replied : ‘ As I am sure you appreciate , particularly after recent events , the PM 's schedule is such that he simply does not have time to contribute to your magazine . |
| 10 | If the intrusion does not have time to freeze before subsequent or continued injection , then the ‘ lubricated ’ region may channel magma towards the eventual eruption site . |
| 11 | This bodily preparation needs to occur so quickly that there is no time for conscious thought , the caveman does not have time to talk himself into this state of readiness . |
| 12 | This is a useful technique for systems designed to operate at the highest speeds , where the time taken for the initial current build.up exceeds the step period , so that chopping action does not have time to begin in an excited phase ( Acarnley , 1984 ) . |
| 13 | By the Franck-Condon Principle , ionization occurs so fast that the internuclear distance does not have time to change ; the ion is produced with the internuclear distance that was appropriate for the molecule , in what is called a ‘ vertical ’ transition . |
| 14 | The practising teacher or school librarian does not have time to go leisurely through pages of details which are poorly printed on A4 which are folded and tucked in an envelope with a disk . |
| 15 | He does n't waste time does he ? |
| 16 | He does n't have time for all this . ’ |
| 17 | He said : ‘ It 's not possible for the Prince to keep his handicap high — he does n't have time to practise . |
| 18 | If you just pull the plug it does n't have time to erase the temporary files it used and if you are using the latest SmartDrv utility you might even lose data that you thought was safely written to disk . |
| 19 | It does n't say time Peter , it says effort . |
| 20 | Teaching does indeed take time , but in the long term it is a great time saver . |
| 21 | Painting by this method I am told requires great patience , and it does indeed take time to achieve such detail . |