Example sentences of "[adj] time [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spent most of his free time working for the Overseas Workers ' Union , a clandestine anti-colonial organisation chiefly recruited from Indians and Chinese . |
| 2 | The overall time required for the search will be : |
| 3 | There is a set time allowed for the council to receive comments on an application . |
| 4 | Use the extra time to go for a walk around the block , or even just round the building . |
| 5 | There is no right in Community law to have a lawyer present for such meetings , although normally the Commission will allow a limited time to elapse for the parties to acquire legal representation . |
| 6 | Developments included the realistic estimation of 11 million years as the likely time required for the production of an erosion surface and Linton ( 1957 ) had shown that the time scale used by some as a frame of reference for landscape evolution was too long . |
| 7 | Allowing time for handover and meal breaks , what is the optimum time required for the afternoon overlap of shifts ? |
| 8 | The drama course for professional performers which does not at the present time qualify for a mandatory award , is fully accredited by the National Council of Drama Training as is the Acting Option of the Graduate Diploma course . |
| 9 | Mercury , your ruler , begins to move through your sign , making it a good time to plan for the future . |
| 10 | Forty years may be a long time to wait for a 19p basic rate of tax . |
| 11 | Seven days — a week — is a long time to wait for a telephone service nowadays . |
| 12 | Mrs Freda Bastianelli , the mother of four-month-old twin boys , who has a house on the shoreline , complained that another year was a long time to wait for a possible cure . |
| 13 | A significant deterioration in cognitive function was defined as two or more consecutive increments of 5% or more in the mean time taken for a correct response and of 2% or more in the error rate with the last of the five euglycaemic test scores used as baseline . |
| 14 | In the first study four of the 26 subjects with symptomatic infections had influenza B and showed a 38% increase in the mean time taken for the variable fore period simple reaction time task , from 320 ( SD 24 ) ms when recruited to 440 ( SD 90 ) ms when symptomatic . |
| 15 | Sal continued her job as a waitress in the Commercial Road and spent all her spare time looking for a husband , while Kitty had no trouble in finding any amount of men who were happy to satisfy her every need . |
| 16 | It was bad enough , he felt , to be cast out by your family , be stuck working in ffeatherstonehaugh 's , and be spending all your spare time working for a degree , without additionally having the stress of falling over dead bodies : the boy needed his sleep . |
| 17 | The teacher was also given time to prepare for the interview . |
| 18 | I spent a little precious time searching for a telephone , but could n't find one . |
| 19 | She had lost precious time waiting for the nurse to leave . |
| 20 | Speculation emerged in both Manila and Washington that the plan was designed to play for sufficient time to allow for a reversal of the Senate 's decision after the election of its new President in May 1992 . |
| 21 | But nice , attractive , desexualised people having a bad time makes for a ‘ white bread ’ product , a cop-out . |