Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using some scraps of board , it is worth experimenting with exposure times to optimise the UV time period . |
| 2 | I ring up Richard , and Richard says the only time I can see you is seven o'clock Tuesday night , and I 've got no appointment . |
| 3 | The pig spent the whole time being smacked to and fro , hence ‘ piggie in the middle ’ . |
| 4 | They had formulated some vague ideas which would let them use this effect to shorten the perceived time it took to play the games they had to play , but the castle clocks , or perhaps the castle itself , seemed unwilling to cooperate . |
| 5 | Although each institutional investor may still only own a very small percentage of the issued share capital of the company , nevertheless , they have the requisite skills to monitor management effectively , and can act collectively to exert pressure on the managers of the company , thereby overcoming the problem that there is little incentive for the individual shareholder to spend the necessary time and money to inform himself of and perhaps challenge the actions of the directors as the managers of the company . |
| 6 | In some of these clocks different pieces of incense gave off different aromas , thereby enabling those with sensitive noses to tell the approximate time . |
| 7 | You can also have the prompt show the current time and date , by using PROMPT $D$T$G |
| 8 | er course work to do the whole time . |
| 9 | Each job is represented by a horizontal bar on a time base , the length of the bar indicating the estimated time for the job . |
| 10 | Each job is represented by a horizontal bar on a time base , the length of the bar indicating the estimated time for the job . |
| 11 | We welcome the proposal to reduce the statutory time limit on all existing and future permissions which we believe is essential if minerals operations are to be brought up to and maintained at modern standards or reviewed to assess whether they should be extinguished because the environmental costs of working is too high . |
| 12 | When he spoke at the exhibition , Vivien stood the whole time , keeping her eyes fixed upon his face . |
| 13 | If your dive exceeds the no-decompression time , it flashes the notation asc time ( ascent time ) and the minimum amount of time , in minutes , needed to make the ascent . |
| 14 | — hit the bottle with a vengeance when the group made the big time . |
| 15 | Underline the need to maximise the short time available to them to their best advantage . |
| 16 | All radiofacsimile stations transmitting meteorological information are covered with complete schedules giving the exact time of transmission and the contents of the various charts . |
| 17 | Other day-to-day situations that may not be attributed to visual difficulties include the extended time the children may need to complete tasks , their need to come close to the blackboard or to demonstrations , and their apparent clumsiness in certain practical activities and sports such as ball games . |
| 18 | The code contains the scheduled time of the start of the programme , plus day of the month . |
| 19 | Health chiefs say the waiting time is down to 10 weeks . |
| 20 | And we 've got a very big computerized telephone system , so that if it does n't answer sit there with a stopwatch timing each phone I presume , it 's all automatically done and they get a print out at the end of every month giving the average time of the , the phone the , the , the phone takes to be answered . |
| 21 | Rodent rockers hit the big time |
| 22 | However , the existence of market imperfections results in the social opportunity rate exceeding the social time preference rate . |
| 23 | Estonia left the Soviet time zone and aligned itself chronologically with Finland ; Christmas became a public holiday ; and the republican capital , Tallinn , was given its Estonian name ( with two ns rather than one ) for all-union purposes . |
| 24 | Building reusable code can take more time initially , so it has to make good business sense to invest the extra time on a particular object . |
| 25 | And they had home brew going the whole time . |
| 26 | Once ‘ hooked ’ this hobby dominates the spare time of many a dedicated fisherman and Jim is no exception . |
| 27 | Wordsworth composed aloud while walking , ‘ his jaws working the whoal time ’ , to quote a peasant 's recollections . |
| 28 | So it 's a matter of keeping the bank advised the whole time . |
| 29 | Finally as some transfers , in particular ‘ bulk ’ may be rather time consuming , the LIFESPAN Manager has the ability to restrict the elapsed time over which LIFESPAN RDBI runs . |
| 30 | Our interpretation of the data rests on the premise that the U-Pb isotope systems in these zircons record the actual time of their formation . |