Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pig spent the whole time being smacked to and fro , hence ‘ piggie in the middle ’ . |
| 2 | They had formulated some vague ideas which would let them use this effect to shorten the perceived time it took to play the games they had to play , but the castle clocks , or perhaps the castle itself , seemed unwilling to cooperate . |
| 3 | Although each institutional investor may still only own a very small percentage of the issued share capital of the company , nevertheless , they have the requisite skills to monitor management effectively , and can act collectively to exert pressure on the managers of the company , thereby overcoming the problem that there is little incentive for the individual shareholder to spend the necessary time and money to inform himself of and perhaps challenge the actions of the directors as the managers of the company . |
| 4 | You can also have the prompt show the current time and date , by using PROMPT $D$T$G |
| 5 | er course work to do the whole time . |
| 6 | Each job is represented by a horizontal bar on a time base , the length of the bar indicating the estimated time for the job . |
| 7 | Each job is represented by a horizontal bar on a time base , the length of the bar indicating the estimated time for the job . |
| 8 | We welcome the proposal to reduce the statutory time limit on all existing and future permissions which we believe is essential if minerals operations are to be brought up to and maintained at modern standards or reviewed to assess whether they should be extinguished because the environmental costs of working is too high . |
| 9 | If your dive exceeds the no-decompression time , it flashes the notation asc time ( ascent time ) and the minimum amount of time , in minutes , needed to make the ascent . |
| 10 | — hit the bottle with a vengeance when the group made the big time . |
| 11 | Mounting economic problems in Japan and Germany , and the London property crisis , could mean that economic revival will be long deferred ; a party whose record made the Financial Times refuse to back it is going to have its work cut out to keep in control . |
| 12 | In all this he found time to address meetings for these and many other bodies , hold weekly classes for teaching the youth of his synagogue post-biblical history and related subjects , write articles for the Jewish press ( he founded an Anglo Jewish Journal called The Jewish Times later to be absorbed into the Canadian Jewish Chronicle ) . |
| 13 | Underline the need to maximise the short time available to them to their best advantage . |
| 14 | 4 If you 're a Vet remember the good times ( sub-56 minutes for me ) , but do n't chase them when they are far out of reach . |
| 15 | The code contains the scheduled time of the start of the programme , plus day of the month . |
| 16 | Mrs Theresa Briscoe , a widow with a farm within 500 yards of the mine told the Irish Times that since the mine opened she had lost four horses and some fifty cattle and sheep to lead poisoning . |
| 17 | And we 've got a very big computerized telephone system , so that if it does n't answer sit there with a stopwatch timing each phone I presume , it 's all automatically done and they get a print out at the end of every month giving the average time of the , the phone the , the , the phone takes to be answered . |
| 18 | However , the existence of market imperfections results in the social opportunity rate exceeding the social time preference rate . |
| 19 | Building reusable code can take more time initially , so it has to make good business sense to invest the extra time on a particular object . |
| 20 | And they had home brew going the whole time . |
| 21 | Once ‘ hooked ’ this hobby dominates the spare time of many a dedicated fisherman and Jim is no exception . |
| 22 | So it 's a matter of keeping the bank advised the whole time . |
| 23 | Finally as some transfers , in particular ‘ bulk ’ may be rather time consuming , the LIFESPAN Manager has the ability to restrict the elapsed time over which LIFESPAN RDBI runs . |
| 24 | This means that the organisation of the units will have to be established in order to gauge the available time . |
| 25 | All that came later , when the Company reached the big time . ’ |
| 26 | What bugged me was the way they sampled that line ‘ Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day ’ from the film Withnail and I. It was a shame , since what I liked was the way the album had its own space and logic . |
| 27 | The command TIME displays the current time on the screen and waits for you to enter the new time . |
| 28 | Module timetable confirming the agreed times and groups and detailing which rooms have been booked . |
| 29 | We all to some extent remember the good times and forget the bad , but perhaps that is another important part of the make-up of the ultra runner . |
| 30 | Yesterday Botham marched along the Paignton seafront clocking the incredible time of six hours and 12 minutes over the 26.4 miles . |