Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can use DATA in conjunction with READ to include data in your program which you may need to change from time to time , but which does not need to be different every time you run the program . |
| 2 | Admittedly the main duty of this force — if we may call it that — was ceremonial , but at a time when many of their contemporaries were off fighting in a real war , they must have looked at times like extras from a pantomime . |
| 3 | Dispersal agents must have changed with time as in long-lived taxa such as Ginkgo biloba ( Ginkgoaceae ) and Podocarpaceae , which were probably dispersed by long-extinct groups of reptiles , while in the largest genus of plants with fleshy fruits in New Zealand , Coprosma ( Rubiaceae ) , comprising 29% of all such species there and 50% of the species of fleshy-fruited shrubs , 52 species are dispersed by birds , bats , lizards and formerly the moas , now extinct . |
| 4 | He could have asked for time off , she reflected , and would probably have been given it , but he was just not assertive enough . |
| 5 | If he could have looked through time at his late 1980s counterpart , would he have been scornful of his sunglasses , his insignia of rank , his fat-cat complacent air ? |
| 6 | If I knew where it was , do you think I 'd get blown up time after time . ’ |
| 7 | Doctrinally it demonstrates that ‘ development ’ may have to proceed at times more by reversal than by an extension of what has hitherto been taught . |
| 8 | These are just a few of the situations that you may have to tackle from time to time . |
| 9 | While it is not right that either partner should always have to give way to the other , each may have to concede at times , for both their sakes and for the well-being of their marriage . |
| 10 | Quite the contrary , degrees of review may have differed over time but it is indisputable that the judiciary accepted that non-jurisdictional errors of law could exist . |
| 11 | AIthough the actual industries within the sector may have changed over time , for example with the decline in the numbers of domestic servants since the turn of the century , the sector itself has been an important source of jobs since the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 12 | It should be added that contestability may have changed over time , especially within individual currency sectors . |
| 13 | Since alcohol consumption may have varied with time , efforts were made to obtain estimates based on patient recall and chart review . |
| 14 | my Lord these are the matters I would like to explore at time |
| 15 | Had the player not been defied by a remarkable save by Kopke , Ferguson 's value would have soared in time for the day when Dundee United are finally made the offer they can not refuse . |
| 16 | The children remained preoccupied by their loss and would continue to cry from time to time , but in an increasingly hopeless and dejected way . |
| 17 | So brace yourself for events which may seem puzzling at times , but which will eventually straighten themselves out , although they may leave you in an exhausted state . |
| 18 | The twentieth century may seem threatening at times for someone with these problems , but at least you are not likely to be struck down in your prime by cholera , smallpox or bubonic plague , and there is little risk of being eaten by lions . |
| 19 | Start collecting our superb free Gardeners ' Manual and month by month it will build into a reference book you will want to return to time and time again . |
| 20 | For most weather conditions the Nevada is really waterproof , but it needs washing and will need re-proofing in time . |
| 21 | It sees fiscal 1994 turnover of $1,000m , compared with $1,300m this year ; 3,300 more jobs will have to go over time . |
| 22 | It sees fiscal 1994 turnover of $1,000m , compared with $1,300m this year ; 3,300 more jobs will have to go over time . |
| 23 | But it 's cost me over , well it will have done by time I 've finished putting radio in , about hundred and forty pound . |
| 24 | It is also an immensely difficult decision for the doctor , who will have established over time a relationship of confidence with all but the most severely unfit of his patients ( who anyway are unlikely to have expressed a view ) , which confidence will be shattered if the patient 's request is ignored , thereby adding , if possible , to the unhappiness of the patient . |
| 25 | Although the value of the market index will tend to increase over time , this will not cause the size and variance of this measure to rise . |
| 26 | Thus disorder will tend to increase with time if the system obeys an initial condition of high order . |
| 27 | Inevitably , this will involve looking from time to time at individual media , as each has its own characteristics , requirements , and available research resources . |