Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [art] time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On grounds of theory alone we can not tell which effect will be the stronger , i.e. whether higher taxes on income will raise or lower the time devoted to work rather than leisure ( where , of course , the worker has some choice ) . |
| 2 | either the fish is completely exhausted or given no time to gather its power , for I direct it straight to my landing net and it slips inside quite easily . |
| 3 | All these possibilities are reduced if the program is prepared off the shop-floor by those with no direct interest in shortening or lengthening the time taken to do the job for personal reasons . |
| 4 | Other problems , such as academic ability or entry requirements , became secondary if the adult can not afford to do the course or find the time to study in the first place . |
| 5 | Weigh up the pros and cons ; decide if it is better to accept such invitations or to spend the time doing your own thing , perhaps sharing a mutual interest with one friend . |
| 6 | Some obvious and important matters were left to one side for years because I could n't see a way forward , or had no time to do the experiments — or could n't find the funds to buy the equipment or chemicals needed . |
| 7 | The advantage of the service , Mr Lickiss points out , is that the subscribers can choose when they want or have the time to study . |
| 8 | The break-even points between the two modes of processing can be seen clearly in Fig. 7.22 ; for numbers of records for which a sequential curve is above each straight line that represents the time required to process a record directly , direct processing is faster . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought he 'd be man enough to — ’ but Leith had other things on her mind and wasted no time cutting in and going into orbit . |
| 10 | These enable the original owner of the deposit to sell its ownership to a third party if the need arises and make the time deposit instantly realisable , albeit at a price . |
| 11 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 12 | You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout . |
| 13 | Anyhow , she set to and found the time to make one for me , even though she had such a large family to care for . |
| 14 | ‘ How ’ , the teachers asked , ‘ are we to be trained and to find the time to do the job , without any extra resources ? ’ |
| 15 | He wo n't stand back and negotiate a time to allow us to summon help . |
| 16 | He attacked the Government for its complacency over the issue and compared the time taken over the taking stock package with the quick unveiling of the Conservative proposals on the future of water and local government . |
| 17 | A statement by the governor of the emirate 's Central Bank in February noted that 650 wells were still on fire and put the time needed to resume output at 9 months . |
| 18 | In general they overestimate the amount available and underestimate the time wasted by being fragmented in small amounts on rather trivial matters . |
| 19 | He stayed in Paris for a week , and spent the time looking at paintings and collecting souvenirs — a stone from the Bastille , for example ; yet on his arrival in Orleans he met officers and members of Royalist clubs . |
| 20 | The principal technique was to transmit radar pulses vertically downwards and measure the time lapsed before the echo was received . |
| 21 | A distinctive and particularly valuable aspect of the study by Nissel and Bonnerjea was the keeping of diaries by their respondents so that they could describe the nature of , and measure the time taken in , the caring activities undertaken . |
| 22 | Only five years before , an inter-departmental committee set up jointly by the Home Office and the Lord Chancellor 's Department , under the chairmanship of a High Court Judge , had rejected the solution of permanent Crown Courts to handle the much increased workload of criminal cases and to reduce the time spent by defendants awaiting trial . |
| 23 | A few moments later he shivered again , sneezed and decided the time had come to return to his mates and forget it . |
| 24 | COLIN Montgomerie experienced the torture chamber of Baltusrol for the first time yesterday and insisted the time had come for Europe to demolish America 's stranglehold on the U.S. Open . |
| 25 | The alternative plan is to get away from road racing for a spell and use the time to do some track training , with the idea of running track races through the summer months . |
| 26 | Isa Blagden found her weeping over this one afternoon and took the time to console her , pointing out that soon , in her new position , Oreste would join her and at two years of age would quickly become hers again . |
| 27 | He made a mental note to call her and arrange a time to meet , away from her parents . |
| 28 | Have a look at some other exhibitions , get ideas , do some costings , and estimate the time span you need to be ready . |
| 29 | That is , she was pragmatic by sex and had no time to waste on cerebral subtleties . |
| 30 | Made from hardwood and softwood they cost about £1.25 each to make , and take no time to construct . |