Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sydney said that he was very pleased that someone should want to take the time , money and effort to operate a Great War aerodrome and expressed his thanks to Torquil , Vic and all that had made it possible … |
| 2 | He considered , now , that he should have spent the time he had wasted on all that fiction in working on his great book on Samuel Taylor Coleridge instead . |
| 3 | You should continue to keep the time log to see whether the actual use of time conforms to the goals you set in the Action Plan . |
| 4 | Colleagues , you 'll have noted the time of the day . |
| 5 | you you 'll have to make the time somewhere , |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll try to get the time off , ’ he says . |
| 7 | ‘ A man like you might have looked through the screens of the rickshaw ; might have counted the time it took to reach the place , calculated the direction in which you were taken . ’ |
| 8 | It happened to me when I was sort of looking at some sort of electronic engineering that I was n't supposed to be doing I was just looking at it for interest like Well I 'd like to have the time to spend on that but I 'll leave that thank you very much . |
| 9 | But more people today can have a taste of travel and experience its intrinsic glamour than was possible fifty years ago , when only the well-off and aristocrats could afford to spend the time and money going abroad . |
| 10 | So with his son 's reputation now unequivocally established Leopold may have regarded the time as propitious to secure a position for Mozart at the Viennese court . |
| 11 | This meant he would need to double the time to twenty days . |
| 12 | ‘ The cynics are bound to say that the solicitor would have to recover the time spent on an apparently free comprehensive audit by undertaking some recommendations , ’ said . |
| 13 | If Yuri Rudakov , undressing in the front bedroom of their bungalow , had not been so tired , he would have taken the time to admire the new nightdress that his wife wore as she sat against the pillows and turned the pages of a picture magazine . |
| 14 | After the long drive a good soak was just what she needed , and it would help pass the time till Kelly arrived . |
| 15 | However , an explicit consideration of the broader themes of education management as such is a luxury which fewer people will have had the time , or perhaps the inclination , to undertake . |
| 16 | The offering of such guidelines or suggestions does not in any way detract from the professional integrity of the teacher , who must then select what suits him best for his own purposes , but there will be few teachers who will have had the time or the imagination to think of all of them . |
| 17 | Ideally , the file designer will aim to reduce the time taken to reference this index ; however , when it exceeds a certain threshold value described earlier , a master index , which has one entry for each track of the cylinder index , can be created to reduce the total search time as described above . |
| 18 | This will mean adjusting the time outbound , and allowing more than a single drift on the outbound leg . |
| 19 | ‘ At any rate it will help to pass the time . ’ |
| 20 | We can begin to foresee the time when old people will not spend their last years in large wards which lack privacy or any pretence at being homely . ’ |
| 21 | Meantime it 's a living hell for all of us , and I need all the help we can get to shorten the time he will be in prison . ’ |
| 22 | Altering the look of a step can involve changing the time signature or tempo to which it is danced , the direction it takes or a change of épaulement , its quality and expressiveness , to name but a few . |
| 23 | While Birtwell , who is a fisheries research scientist with the Canadian government in Vancouver , has still to decide whether or not he can continue to devote the time needed to coach the national team , he has no doubts as to what the future holds . |