Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the president is filling the time with less provocative suggestions . |
| 2 | ( A decade later , Johnson , on a journey to Oxford , sat in the stage-coach beside a Mrs Beresford and her daughter ; the girl was passing the time in knotting , a kind of tatting , in which coloured threads are knitted into decorative knots . |
| 3 | Goram 's looking after number one Andy Goram is having the time of his life with Rangers and Scotland , but the road to the top has been strewn with pitfalls . |
| 4 | As it is now three years since the present display team was formed the time has come for an audition to be held , this will be early in the autumn . |
| 5 | My aims were to record the time distribution of night visits and to show the trend in claims in Berkshire over the past 10 years after adjusting for the change in claimable hours . |
| 6 | The object is to minimise the time the machine is cranked over , because in that situation neither brake nor throttle can be seriously applied . |
| 7 | If a closed.loop stepping motor control is to minimise the time Spent in moving a load to a target position a velocity profile of the form shown in Fig. 8.11(a) must be used . |
| 8 | A better method is to measure the time taken for the full code to be read in . |
| 9 | Even if teachers were given the time and opportunity to develop their professional lives in the ways they felt most suitable , the questions and dilemmas that face them are so many and so deep that it is indeed a daunting task . |
| 10 | The effect they have on performance is to increase the time taken for transactions on the Working-Set database . |
| 11 | And your old uncle is having the time of his life , and wishes he could write better letters . |
| 12 | ‘ The important thing is to know the time delay between when the fire starts and the detector operates , ’ says Peter Burray , head of fire detection at the station . |
| 13 | Time zero was considered the time of completion of the test meal . |
| 14 | Our task and privilege is to take the time and make a serious effort to reflect on our lives and to realise anew , the saving and sanctifying power of God . |
| 15 | To explain a watch we need to realize both how its springs and wheels ( or , nowadays , microchips ) work and that its purpose is to tell the time . |
| 16 | Here the problem is finding the time to get things done . ’ |
| 17 | The problem is finding the time to do everything I 'd like to do . |
| 18 | The challenge facing large organizations of all types is to reduce the time among these three stages . |