Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We started to do the old trick of counting the time between the lightning flash and the thunderclap to discover how far away the eye of the storm was . |
| 2 | ‘ After the third retake , he threatened to take off a bit of clothing every time the scene was done again . |
| 3 | It is not even a question of reducing the time spent on formal aspects of the language system and squeezing them up to make room for a newcomer . |
| 4 | and you were sort of given the time and and and er er you know I 'm sure they paid for the books or whatever you needed |
| 5 | You , you apologized for lateness the only thing I wonder on there is er you know it 's ea it 's easy enough to say that you did n't actually sort of clarify the time that you were gon na be there , you just accepted that you were late erm but I mean that 's a you know ju just a point I wonder that rather than apologizing straight of all , straight , straight away if you knew you were late then that was one thing that perhaps you could 've got that in the initial greeting . |
| 6 | And the whole business of managing the time , the resources and the , meeting the specifications is , is very much a matter which quality management addresses . |
| 7 | On the other hand , do n't make a habit of shouting every time you do something : this will cause the panel to switch off , and thereby perhaps miss an actual score . |
| 8 | Another method of discovering the time scales associated with turbulent motion is , obviously , Fourier analysis . |
| 9 | Now er one of the very , or the very serious suggestion that came out of that meeting , and it I think it met unanimous support that night , was consideration of altering the time of the morning service . |
| 10 | Often this is a matter of stopping the time out as soon as all the crying , whining , foot stamping has ceased and the child is quiet again : ‘ You can come back when you are quiet ’ is the rule of the day . |
| 11 | Just a matter of finding the time ! |
| 12 | In a nearly cloudless country such as Egypt observation of the sun was a useful way of telling the time and it is therefore not surprising that the earliest known solar clock has been found there . |
| 13 | If it is said that it is the use to which such information may be put that can be objectionable , the libertarian might well reply that gossip is an age-old way of passing the time and one of the cements of society . |
| 14 | Running was also a popular way of passing the time int he camps set up around military installations in Iraq . |
| 15 | Running is a pretty boring way of passing the time , but is nevertheless a simple and effective way of staying fit . |
| 16 | It was a good way of passing the time , he thought . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll find a way of passing the time . ’ |
| 18 | He considered the problem of measuring the time taken by a voice in making a single sound . |