Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In any case , I have looked up the time of your flight . |
| 2 | The next day he went back to the factory and found out the time of the funeral . |
| 3 | Certainly one of the most important concerns of the project manager is to know how the time of his team , and particularly his own , is spent . |
| 4 | The point that I made to the Committee is that if we wish to reduce the hours of the House or change the sitting times — that is still an open question — it is important that we consider how the time of the House is used at present and to make reductions pro rata . |
| 5 | I had no interest in charitable works , or in clubs devoted to flower-arranging , debating futile motions or even poetry-reading , seeing such activities as being designed to fill out the time of future ladies of leisure . |
| 6 | ‘ Certain highly technical factors , intelligible only to the expert and with which I will not take up the time of this inquest , have led me to conclude that Subject A had been dead for more than nine years and less than twelve . |
| 7 | I have details here of scores of cases , but as I can not take up the time of the House in referring to all of them , I will pick one or two examples . |
| 8 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
| 9 | I apologise for taking up the time of the House . |
| 10 | If the Home Secretary does not want the Bill to do serious damage to internal discipline in prisons , resulting in matters that should be dealt with by internal disciplinary procedures going to court and taking up the time of the criminal justice system — making it far more difficult for prison governors to run their prisons — he had better look again at that clause and amend it . |
| 11 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 12 | Yet schools are prepared to tie up the time of senior staff , in effect the resource equivalent of at least a full-time head of department post , with the vaguest responsibilities for taking difficult pupils away from classrooms . |
| 13 | Work out the times of day when the desire for a cigarette is most likely to undermine your good intentions , and be prepared . |
| 14 | This conflict could lie behind the events that occur around the time of the full moons of March 8 and September 1 and the eclipses of May 21 , June 4 and November 29 . |