Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 He owned hundreds of acres of land in Wisconsin , Iowa , Florida and Colorado , and was busy in the horse-raising business , which must have involved substantial time , travel and capital .
2 This method of knitting whilst shaping is so important that you might like to keep suitable time entirely clear to master the basics without interruption .
3 It might avoid wasting precious time . ’
4 said that they would prefer to work full time .
5 You will appreciate that I shall need to take paid time off work for antenatal visits .
6 This , however , is quite distinct from a counselling service , which would seek to offer protected time in which the counsellor and client could focus on a psycho-social problem .
7 If the ferry boat was there it would be quicker , if not she would have lost precious time by not taking the direct path to the bridge .
8 It 's welcome , although we would have prefered full time jobs , but it 's a step in the right direction .
9 The preparation of the foundations and the timbers alone would have required considerable time and although C12 is the largest building excavated at the site , the effort required to build many of the others would not have been much less .
10 We will want to give adequate time to them to share their experiences and insights .
11 Each goal is planned for a week but some may possibly require longer ; our dieter will have to take extra time if it is taking her body longer to adjust than she anticipates at the start .
12 And the same amount of things per head of the population will have been produced in the same ways by the same classes of people for many generations together ; and therefore this supply of the appliances for production will have had full time to be adjusted to the steady demand .
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