Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Help your child to tell the time with this nursery clock which has a solid pine surround and clown design . |
| 2 | Why he needed to choose this moment to pass the time of day with all and sundry and — good grief ! — take a wad of notes from his back pocket and count them out with infuriating slowness — was anybody 's guess . |
| 3 | These star charts were provided to enable the deceased to tell the time of night or the date in the calendar . |
| 4 | However , subject to the power of the court to extend the time under s 376 , no application to reverse or vary the decision of the trustee rejecting a proof will be entertained unless notice of the application is given before the expiration of twenty-one days from the date of service of the notice of rejection ( r 6.105 ) . |
| 5 | Cassie lifted her arms to reach his neck , and from the position in which she lay , she had no need to move her head to read the time on the face of her watch . |
| 6 | Ruth thought her aunt would have sat up all night to prolong the time with them , but her uncle — who had tried bravely all day to behave as though nothing untoward was happening — put his arms around his wife 's shoulders and led her away to bed . |
| 7 | He had ample opportunity to change the time of Mr Lamont 's alleged visit and he could have avoided mentioning that a Gold card was used . |
| 8 | There is pressure to minimise the time in hospital . |
| 9 | The run used to be three miles but I added a quarter mile spur in order to use the time to best advantage . |
| 10 | It allows matters of lesser importance to be decided without troubling the whole Cabinet ; and major issues to be clarified in order to save the time of the Cabinet . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll phone the hotel to check the time of Garry 's arrival , ’ he said and , picking up the phone , he asked to be connected with the Crowned Head . |
| 12 | If the adverbials in the above examples were not included in the clause , one would have to rely entirely on the context to establish the time of the event . |
| 13 | It might be appropriate to ask the Mental Health Act Commission to provide a second opinion on such patients at the end of their first three months with the power to extend the time for free treatment . |
| 14 | A unilateral right to require a dispute about the rent to be referred to arbitration is " an agreement to refer future disputes to arbitration " ( Arbitration Act 1950 , s27 ; Pitallis v Sherefettin [ 1986 ] QB 868 ) and the court has power to extend the time for service of a counternotice if undue hardship would otherwise result ( ibid ) . |
| 15 | In addition , as has been noted , the court has power to extend the time within which an arbitration must be commenced ( Arbitration Act 1950 , s27 ) . |
| 16 | Section 14 states that , in the absence of an agreed time for performance or an agreed formula to determine the time for performance , the supplier will carry out the service in a reasonable time . |