Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nomination of subcontractors , whereby the main contract or the engineer stipulates the name of a subcontractor whom the main contractor must employ , should generally be avoided unless , for example , it is necessary to retain specialists skills or to observe a time constraint . |
| 2 | I bought the prescribed or recommended books but had no time to read them . |
| 3 | Erm , he organised the coordinating , after a while she did actually stop them after five minutes and explain the time situation , er , the final objective were the constraints . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Subjects were asked to collect every stool for five days and record the time each was passed . |
| 6 | It requires employers to meet the costs and plan the time for courses . |
| 7 | The intention is to speed up the taking of kick-offs and to stop the time wasting practice of kicking the ball dead instead of keeping it in play from the kick-off . |
| 8 | Similarly , the company says that its plans for international expansion are pressing ahead , although it would not name any potential partners or put a time scale to its plans . |
| 9 | Knowing the speed that floppy disks take to format , I allowed half a day for the job , but it was done in a couple of minutes — it 's the absolutely essential task of backing up files that takes the time . |
| 10 | A low drone of talk hummed in the hut , and Holly lay on his back on his bunk and gazed at the roof rafters and counted the time between each fall of a water drop to his feet . |
| 11 | For myself , I would let the others go on to the caves and pass the time instead above ground in the large riverside village of Saint-Pé ( the Gascon form of Pierre ) -de-Bigorre , which has a nicely arcaded square and a few pleasing remains of its old abbey church , once the grandest religious building in the Pyrenees but now part in effect of the dull parish church that later replaced it , after it had been fired by Protestant arsonists in the Wars of Religion . |
| 12 | If the demand for real balances function is rewritten in the following specific form where is nominal money demand and the price level then , taking natural logs and introducing a time subscript , |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The mind is the word used for that still mysterious part of living creatures that controls the time , intensity and direction of physical and mental activity . |
| 15 | Front-line supervisors make short-term day-to-day decisions and have no time for longer-term plans and decisions . |
| 16 | It 's , you ca n't in general lay down generalized associative links and say every time somebody dreams about erm an examination it represents anxiety about their future career or something . |
| 17 | At a table near the window sat a delegation of Africans , and another table nearer to the dance floor had South-East Asian faces that nodded every time their Russian host spoke . |
| 18 | It is a real pleasure to see these young lady constables and to pass the time of day with them . ’ |