Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nathan waited patiently for the remissions which made it possible for the ruined mind to function for a time ; he sat by the sick man , who by now was almost blind ; the paralysis was , after all , general . |
| 2 | ‘ The main damage was at the back , to dressing rooms , for example , and there will still be a lot of work to do by the time December arrives . ’ |
| 3 | Doctors faced with a refusal of consent have to give very careful and detailed consideration to the patient 's capacity to decide at the time when the decision was made . |
| 4 | If an adult patient did not have the capacity to decide at the time of the purported refusal and still does not have that capacity , it is the duty of the doctors to treat him in whatever way they consider , in the exercise of their clinical judgment , to be in his best interests . |
| 5 | Doctors faced with a refusal of consent have to give very careful and detailed consideration to what was the patient 's capacity to decide at the time when the decision was made . |
| 6 | The explanation for this can not be sought in the tenses of the verbs that the testator has used , for they are all historic with respect to the time the will was made and ought on that basis to refer to no time later than that . |
| 7 | And to , to resign and to bring the new leader in charge to settle for a time . |
| 8 | The judgment in this case , Cresswell and others v Board of Inland Revenue ( 1984 ) , contained robust comment on the need to move with the times : |
| 9 | He clearly regards the management of the mound as his own particular responsibility and expertise , for if the female comes to the mound to lay at a time when opening it might cause a dangerous fluctuation in its temperature , he will refuse to do so and drives her away . |
| 10 | Although the two never met , they both forged a figurative style out of the Abstract Expressionism raging all about them — not the most popular move to make at the time . |
| 11 | … no inconsiderable sacrifice to put in the time and effort that this sort of work requires , particularly when , as I fear has been the case so far , it has to be pursued at rather a breakneck speed . |
| 12 | If it takes an hour and five minutes , we charge an hour and a quarter to get for the time to get back . |
| 13 | Mr Fallon said : ‘ It is a nonsense to measure from the time of referral to the time of operation because not all out-patients require operations . ’ |
| 14 | Even Sir Henry came out of his chill library to stand for a time , wrapped in greatcoat and mufflers , surveying the Breughel-like gathering at the lake . |
| 15 | This is useful practise to prepare for the time when you allow the dog off the leash for the first time , and call it back to you . |
| 16 | He 'd another half-hour to go before the time of the meeting , but he wanted to see her arrive . |
| 17 | Addition of unlabelled DNA causes the footprint to disappear in a time dependent fashion . |
| 18 | He had always been a socialist and a pacifist , a brave position for a man in public life to adopt at the time , and he and his colleagues paid a heavy price for his principles when in 1940 the BBC banned the Glasgow Orpheus Choir from the air waves . |
| 19 | We may defensively claim that it was the right thing to do at the time . |
| 20 | I picked out a selection , deciding on even numbers only because it seemed like a sensible thing to do at the time . |
| 21 | It was a reasonable thing to do at the time as the fund was in surplus . |
| 22 | Colnaghi contributed little to American museums in these years ( the 1930s and 1940s ) and what they did sell betrayed an unwillingness to adapt to the times . |
| 23 | For Kathmandu the marathon is one of the biggest … grandest sporting events of the year and what a welcome there is for Ieuan Ellis as he races down the straight of the national stadium to win in a time of 2 hours 24 minutes and five seconds … |
| 24 | Miss Gregg told detectives her mother had been waiting for the handyman to call at the time of her death . |
| 25 | Such a notice may be served where an odour has occurred and is likely to recur on the same premises , the advantage being that unlike an abatement notice there is no need for an odour to exist at the time of service . |
| 26 | I had the club already going , was dealing with mainly young people , and as you will know young people 's taste tends to vary quite considerably and very quickly , so I might well be very successful for so long and then if suddenly taste changed and I had n't got the ability to change with the times I realized that it would be rather precarious , so I needed a second string to my bow . |
| 27 | Well he 's got to be in a position to complete by the time the notice runs out . |