Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] time [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Nobody barred as Evelyn Glennie beats time at Craiginches
2 It is always good practice to synchronise times with suppliers ' delivery schedules thus minimising time between order and delivery which also minimises stock holding requirement .
3 ‘ You do n't sound to me to be in the right condition to spend time with Fishbane . ’
4 Earlier this year Central and Anglia teamed up in a jointly owned group , Television Sales & Marketing Services , which has now won contracts to sell time for Border TV and the cable channel Discovery .
5 The project will examine picture naming times under conditions which vary the relations between consecutive pictures ( changing size , orientation etc ) .
6 No need to call time on country pubs
7 The husband to have time off work to look after the children ,
8 The interval permits time for contemplation and anticipation .
9 and reduces the need to spend time in limbo or the need on re-entry to reestablish oneself .
10 Under the Employment Act 1980 all pregnant women have the right to take time off work in order to receive antenatal care .
11 In the Fifties and Sixties Kelly spent time with Adrian Maeght and the artists associated with the publisher .
12 Swift Transport , for example , has 300 trucks equipped with Cellnet phones to enable drivers to keep in touch with depots and customers to confirm times of arrival .
13 AMMA says governors are not receiving enough training and are having problems getting time off work to carry out their complex job in schools .
14 They became an overnight sensation but were arrested for performing illegally in 1984 , and Zhanna spent time in jail and in exile .
15 The addition of the necessary chemicals can be made at the same time , and the plant requires means for adding these , mixing them with the water to give time for interaction , and removing the precipitate by sedimentation , usually by some variation of the " upward-flow " type of tank .
16 When they quit the market and ICI became our main supplier , the relationship took time to bed down but ICI 's performance now is excellent . ’
17 In a materialistic society , the relative deprivation … it entails is keenly felt and idleness gives time for resentment and envy to grow .
18 Although God is holy and hates sin , yet Jesus had time for criminals , prostitutes and the men who exploited them .
19 I tried staying in town overnight and then driving home during the day to spend time with Maisie .
20 The proportion of those on remand , that is , being held prior to trial or sentence , was 14.5 per cent in 1979 but in 1988 had grown to 23 per cent , with the average waiting time for trial at the Crown Court also increasing .
21 The average waiting time for trial at Crown Court was 56 days in 1989 , and in that year remand prisoners made up just over one-fifth of the average prison population .
22 GPTV director David Hahn said : ‘ The average waiting time in GPs ' surgeries is 30 minutes .
23 As in urology , in neurology waiting times for outpatient appointments are too long despite the unacceptably large numbers of patients seen in outpatient clinics .
24 The defeat was orchestrated by an 18-year-old from Hackney , whose father spent time in City 's reserves in the 60s .
25 In fact , over 5.7 million people spent time in hospital in 1989 alone .
26 It is often extremely awkward for people to take time off work , and it is probably the very people who would be most reluctant to lie or make excuses for their absence to their present employers who will be the best candidates from your point of view .
27 Fiona sold time to people .
28 But 30-year-old Rice has time in hand to erase both marks — then there really will be no doubt about who is the greatest .
29 Racing : Sangster calls time at Manton
30 ‘ Ways of life imply times for breakfast . ’
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