Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] time [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How the Other Half Lives A divorced woman rings her ex-spouse : Perhaps you could spare some time to see the children on Saturday … |
| 2 | Consultations with various bodies have revealed that Welsh Water and the county highway authority do not object , but the National Rivers Authority want more time to consider the proposal , in view of proximity to the river . |
| 3 | The average stay is two years and this is considered insufficient time to master the workings of a complex government department . |
| 4 | Objects much greater than 1km in diameter do not fragment while traversing the Earth 's atmosphere , as an atmospherically induced pressure wave has insufficient time to cross the object before impact . |
| 5 | If insurance is to be sought , the vendor should identify and contact the insurers as early as possible in the negotiations as they will need sufficient time to review the draft documentation and consider the vendor 's requirements . |
| 6 | If the system has a high inertia , for example , the maximum stepping rate can not be attained instantaneously ; the stepping rate must be gradually increased towards the maximum value so that the motor has sufficient time to accelerate the load inertia . |
| 7 | Complementing it is the British Coal Yearbook which offers a written record of the season and which has expanded this time to embrace the seasons in France , Australia and New Zealand . |
| 8 | This should give enough time to devise a workable document . |
| 9 | When an Orc wants to do something he simply does it , where a human might spend untold time weighing the alternatives . |
| 10 | You can use this time to prepare the developer etchant etc. , or carry out any other tasks . |
| 11 | If you know that you have a busy weekend ahead and will be out all day for two days at the end of next week , you could use this time to knit a jumper . |
| 12 | They would use this time to seek a university job , helped by a coordinating body , KAI , set up for this purpose . |
| 13 | Any attempt to produce the letter for the first time at completion should be resisted and completion delayed until the purchaser has had adequate time to consider the disclosures . |
| 14 | Why not stay awhile and spend some time exploring the delights of this fascinating county . |
| 15 | We could spend much time analysing the possible reasons for the failure of classroom multimedia in the 1970s . |
| 16 | The Executive Committee discussed the case at several further meetings and decided to re-examine it when Black 's solicitor should have had more time to ascertain the prospects of money compensation from the government for the injuries . |
| 17 | Magistrates at Bedlington , Northumberland , agreed to a month-long adjournment after Philip Jackson , defending , requested more time to study the case papers . |
| 18 | In my experience I c if I do a plan I have n't got enough time to write the essay . |
| 19 | He tried to persuade his master to be stricter with the children , and was always complaining that Heathcliff and Catherine did not spend enough time studying the Bible or attending church services . |
| 20 | He has not yet had enough time to close the gap , to find a way of associating Conservative values with a public political culture . |
| 21 | If an aid is granted without informing the Commission or before the Commission has had sufficient time to examine the aid , the Court has recently held that the Commission has power to take interim measures ordering the member states concerned to suspend the aid and provide the Commission with all relevant information . |
| 22 | However , once Governments of either party know that they will complete a Bill on a certain day , they hand much of the power over to the Opposition to decide how they want to use that time to debate the proper timing and clauses . |
| 23 | Understandably , the extent of the miracle takes some time to penetrate the minds of some of the Israelite people . |
| 24 | A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter . |
| 25 | As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations . |
| 26 | Toby spent some time smoothing the ruffled sensibilities of Corbett Farraday ( ‘ I mean , after all , when you n–y to give them a bit of fun … ‘ ) , then he went to check the changing huts , which Bill Muggeridge usually forgot to lock after his afternoon tearing round blowing whistles at the boys . |
| 27 | We spent some time discussing the operation of the traditional or discount market because , we said , it was in that market that the Bank of England tried day by day to influence monetary conditions in the domestic economy . |
| 28 | But on the journey to Vadinamia I also spent some time giving a little thought to security . |
| 29 | The educational psychologist spent some time explaining the legal side of Statementing , which is complex . |
| 30 | He had had a good idea for a story the previous lesson and spent much time preparing a detailed picture to start it off . |